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    Painting project

    Apr 15, 2022 3 minutes

    LEARNING OBJECTIVES

    ■ Select a strong composition

    ■ Formulate a concept for your painting

    ■ Prepare properly

    This month’s painting project is about composition and character, or, putting it another way, creating something better by assessing all the options rather than accepting the obvious. All of which I had reason to ponder as part of a commission for a painting of a local church as a gift from the congregation to the departing vicar.

    , and (above) show the church from three different positions. has probably would have greeted the vicar every day as she walked through the lychgate. is the photo I took while I was crouching down in the compost heap in the furthest and darkest corner of the church grounds. Which view would you choose and why?

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