Composition. We compose our picture and what we want to accomplish. This helps focus on the main interest, balance, variety, simiplfication and unity of the painting.

First we worked with painting "negative" space. I used the "vase - face" example. I didn't get it the same on both sides, but I do get the idea:

Next I worked on painting and colors. The rose was an example from an earlier lesson:

I installed Elements 3.0 and decided to become familiar with it by painting a pear. In addition to the painting I used a "watercolor" surface for the pear and applied the sandstone Texturizer to the table top, below the shadow.