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"Landscape Composition Rules"
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Author: Johannes_Vloothuis, Contributing Editor

6. Group your subjects of importance within the center of interest. Don’t scatter them around where they would compete for attention.
Fig. 11 . All the people appear in the same radius within the center of interest which is located at the bottom right.
Fig. 12. The horse is wrongly placed. Had the artist positioned it near the bench, the composition would’ve improved.
7. You may wish to allow the viewer to interact and become a participant. Let him look for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow instead of you providing all the visual information. Set your painting up for the viewer to wander around using his own imagination.
Fig. 13. What is around the bend? Will there be a lake? What about a town? Here the artist left it to your imagination. The path doesn’t go anywhere. You tell me.
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