• Perspective

• Anatomy

• Three dimensionality (Distance, Light and Shadow)

• Comprehension and understanding of the subject (Water transparency, Fog effect, Movement effect, Atmospheric effect of distance, etc.)

• Management of all reference materials (Sketches, Drawing of starting points or Imagination, Thumbnails or Pochades)

• Ergonomy (Studio or plein-air gear and set-up, Furniture and tools, How-to-use and How-to-work)

1 - CONCEPT AND STRUCTURE

• Relations in space; Golden rule, Asymmetry strategies, Management of periphery, Patterns, Points of interest, Variety and Unity, Dominant and accent, Hierarchy

2 - VALUES

• Their contribution to Focal points, Contrast, Volume and Three dimensionality, to Contrast

• How to compose Values

3 - COLOR

• Understand color relation, Color temperature, Color contrast and atmosphere, Color contribution to focalization

• How to compose Colors

4 - READING EDGES

• Visual field perception, Soft and Hard edges, How to paint edges

• How to compose Edges

5 - SURFACE AND TEXTURE

• Awareness of stages from support to varnishes

• Creating textures, Contrast, Knowing how manipulate tools and texture from different mediums

• How to compose textures