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Old 07-23-2006, 02:51 PM   #18
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Hey Mike, I'm still LEARNING "The Rules" Gotta know them before you can break them ....successfully.
Carol,

I think this is very true of any field. I suppose that if you stay within the genre of representational art, whatever that means to you, that there are some rules that could be applied consistently.

Our friend Chris Saper is always rightly pointing out those nasty tangents that appear within our compositions, likewise there are certain conventions which apply to the edge of the canvas.

There is, however, a whole world of atypical representations out there. If I were to be generous I would say that those operating successfully in those genres would have first had a handle on some set of conventional rules.

And speaking of two bunny compositions, Easter will be here before you know it.
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