Lessons in Pictorical Composition

Lessons in Pictorical Composition by Wolchonok, Louis. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780486221816.

In this volume, complete with sixty full-page plates as well as hundreds of illustrations, Louis Wolchonok presents the basic and unchanging principles that underline all good composition. Starting from the point at which the artist faces the white sheet of paper, the stretched canvas, or the wall, this book guides him through such general considerations as skeletal compositions and developments therefrom, dominance of direction, control of value key and area of chief interest. The author then proceeds to an introduction to perspective, concluding with a consideration of color.