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This 38 page book contains information about how to compose your pictures, and how to deconstruct paintings that you may see in a gallery or museum and understand how compositions work. Make your own images better, and learn to see compositions all around you. How do you direct the eye? How do you use contrast and color to your advantage? It's all here for you at your leisure. Dominance, balance, divisions of space, even psychological elements of composition are discussed to let you understand how pictures really work! Lots of illustrations show you visually how to compose and balance your pictures better, plus simple ways to remember the basics every time you start a new picture. All these ideas work for artists as well as photographers.
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Here is an actual "scribble sketch" from the book with the accompanying text. Scribble sketches are used to demonstrate ideas without details becoming the important issue.

Two of several examples demonstating different ways to think about balance.
Here is an example that deals with the concepts of balance, isolation and use of value and contrast while composing a picture. Once again, abstractions are used to show the concept withouth distractions of subject matter and detail.
This book helps you understand composition and will make you get better at composing pictures; whether you are an artist or photographer, a hobbyist or professional!