Find your focal point
The focal point is a very important aspect for any painting or photograph as it is the area in a composition to which the viewer’s eye is naturally led. I’m referring to traditional pictures and compositions here. Abstract painters may deliberately create paintings without a focal point, in which your eye will wander all around the composition. This is the intention of the abstract artist and some very good examples of abstract painting without a focal point are seen in the work of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Agnes Martin and Mark Rothko.
Over the years I have created many well-executed paintings where I have been very dissatisfied with the content of the
