BobBlast 293 - Best of BobBlast - “Practicing the Twelve Design Compositions.”

Welcome Back to Another BobBlast!

I have received a few questions lately about composition - how I decide and create a composition for a painting - as well as how I recall the different compositions to keep me on track! I selected this Best of BobBlast for this week's video, as I have just returned from two weeks of workshops in Mexico.

This Best of BobBlast is about practicing each design composition I use as a back-bone structure in my paintings. I have always thought if you paint a weak structure, the painting falls apart and tumbles down.

In this demonstration, I start with twelve squares of watercolor paper, black tissue paper, plus gel medium as my adhesive. They are not meant to be finished pieces at this point. They are reminders of the structure, using pure graphic design to suggest the actual composition.

I keep these twelve composition samples in my studio as a reminder and to keep me on track and focused to use ONLY ONE composition throughout my painting time. This "practice" affords me plenty of fun, creative time under the "guidance" of a strong back-bone structure.

As a reminder - when I start a painting I concentrate on what I refer to as the Five Cs - Composition is just one part of the whole!

5 Cs:
1 - Content (Intention, Big Idea)
2 - Composition
3 - Color Combination
4 - Commitment
5 - Continuing the Series

Now... let's get your hands sticky!

[joshhemming]

I truly feel excited about drawing and painting after I began your videos. Your fun and interesting so thats what got me to watch a second time and now I just may be addicted! Finally feel real direction and not only watching how great someone else is painting. Thank you for making this so exciting!!!

[angelabradshaw]

I am a middle school art teacher, and I have to show my students this next year! How fun!

[ruthmarshall]

I love that you aren’t spending a ton of time with you’re demos, yet they are Very informative !! Thanks SO much!!

[TMB]

It is what Bob does after the rough Abstract is the real Magic (as he says "Under every Masterpiece is a wonderful Abstract")

I can do abstract, following up with anything considered to be Art is yet to be determined...
Bob is THE Artist and I am but a YouTube Student.
Thank you Bob, I love learning everything, even stuff I can already do, (I have a lot of under-paintings) ;^)

[jbarnesweb]

Just wanted to share my appreciation. The Burridge Studio app for iPhone has most certainly impacted my painting in a profound and positive way. I use it as a starting point for all my paintings, for composition and color choices. I carry it to life model sessions and use it in my studio.

Regardless of whether I feel the painting was a success or not, everyone who gives me critical feedback always compliments me on color and composition. This consistent feedback convinces me that your approach is helpful to me.

Thanks again,
Jeff (a big fan of yours)

[lindapeacerose]

Your my favorite. I get so much inspiration.

[RocketWorm]

So happy to have found your channel. Great stuff.

[claudevilleneuve]

This was really FuN!!! I'm going in my studio right away and try these 12 design compositions!!!

[ElleCoyote]

hey Bob, I really enjoyed seeing these quick demos of the 12 compositions, thanks. I would like to see a painting video series, in which you do a complete painting using one of the 12 compositions, showing how these designs work out in practice in . If you already made a series of videos on that, it would be great to view them. Thanks again!

[pashaveres]

Thanks for another great video. At first glance, the "compositions" look like a mess, yah. So what? Each composition is different and unlike the rest even though you've used the simplest of materials. Seeing the 12 DIFFERENT compositions all together like that really makes the point. Fun, too, imagining paintings, or just colors, going on top of them; they'd be compositionally really strong. Aloha

[ahmad]

hallo sir l am enjoyed waching your video.

[TheKandiO]

I’d love to own one of the posters that is in the upper right frame of the video. I’m thinking it’s a chart of these compositions.

[joshhemming]

Also, do you do community lessons? I live in Duluth mn.

[xencage]

“We cover our butts by calling it spiritual “
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