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Straight-on lighting, colour control and file specs so application and portfolio images match the work on your wall
Photograph paintings, drawings and objects for juries and portfolios with even light, parallel camera alignment, honest colour and clean crops. Covers natural and two-light setups, glare control, RAW-to-JPEG export, a kit table, edge cases, professional practice, costs and when to hire an art photographer.
Hue, mixing and the colour wheel as studio grammar, read through six named paintings from Titian through to Bridget Riley.
Colour theory in art is the set of looking rules studios use for hue, mixing and harmony. This guide maps subtractive and additive systems, the wheel, complementary and analogous schemes, and six museum works, then shows how to read a palette on the wall without sliding into symbolism or pigment lore.
How artists create a focal point through contrast, isolation, and subordination, with six named pictures from Leonardo to Monet.
Emphasis in art ranks attention so one area of a picture pulls first. This vocabulary guide splits focal point from dominance and subordination, reads six dated works from Leonardo to Hiroshige, and flags mix-ups with contrast, visual movement, and the writing-class sense of the same English word.
Wholeness as a design principle: repetition, colour key and variety, with seven dated museum works from Giotto to El Anatsui.
Unity in art is the sense that separate marks, colours and objects belong to one work. This vocabulary guide treats harmony as a close cousin, variety as the needed counterpart, and Gestalt grouping as a looking tool, then reads seven catalogue objects and names the mix-ups that flatten student essays into ‘it all matches’.
Positive and negative space, overlapping and atmospheric depth as looking tools, from tomb painting to installation
Space in art is the area around, between and within forms, and the sense of depth a flat surface can imply. This vocabulary guide shows how overlapping, scale and aerial haze organise looking, with named works from Nebamun to Matisse and Whiteread, and how to tell space from composition, form and landscape genre.
Line, shape, form, space, value, colour and texture as the classroom seven, mapped with museum pictures and looking notes
An element of art is one isolable visual part of a picture or object: line, shape, form, space, value, colour or texture. This hub maps the seven used in studio teaching, shows how they behave in named works from Uccello to Matisse, and keeps principles of design, colour theory and linear perspective in their own places.
