“Every corner of the canvas should be alive,” Said Henry Matisse and I think he was right. I guess you can't always take everything into account on a tight deadline but I always try. I had forgotten the wording of this quote until I read this article. This was also taught to me at art school (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) I'm not sure which teacher said it but to paraphrase them " You should be able to remove a square inch from anywhere in your paining and have it be as beautiful as any other," I'm probably getting it wrong but it's always stuck with me.
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Ehhh that's fine art mumbo jumbo though. Don't get caught up in that.
It's beautiful and true.
If you're going to spend so much time painting something, you might as well care that much about it. I think he's right. If you think about it, it's true for both Van Gogh and Pollock, for instance.
That's not so much "fine art mumbo jumbo" as a question of basic craft. Give every part of your image attention. There's nothing esoteric about it.
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