Thanks, so glad the lesson is helpful!

You are most welcome Rahul.

Thanks, so glad my videos are helpful.

Glad the lessons are helpful. Learning how to paint is like learning how to play the piano, hours of practice, starting simple and slowly getting more difficult subjects.

Thanks so much Richardo, so glad my approach to composition is understandable. I wish you well in your art.

Thanks John, I wish you well in your painting.

Good to hear, thank you.

Happy to hear my lesson is helpful, thank you.

Glad the lesson is helpful. All arts, writing, music, painting, dance, photography, our world...follow the same principles of design. All have an individual component or character, the word, note, step, shape, color, individual...and each of these characters in a good work of art seeks a balance between diversity and unity. In the end, every great work of art has a final dominance of unity, connectedness or a coming together. Too much disunity or disconnectedness between each part or character, we have chaos, something that does not hold our attention, does not hold together, does not last. Too much unity we have boredom and lack of interest. So, in spite of disunities and tensions, we need to feel a dominance of unity and love not just a particular part of the work, but love the whole work, the whole world.

@@Stanleylestermiller I really amazed by your thought process stan. How you get this type of thinking. Have you read any book or something. Can you suggest any books or anything to think like a way you talk. Thanks

@@ArtistDiwakar So glad my lessons and my way of thinking are helpful. Unfortunately I can't recommend any particular book or resource for helping you to understand more clearly how I explain design and how to paint. I'm rarely pleased with most books and videos on composition and design. I've kind of figured out how the eye moves and what it feels when it moves...that premise is rarely the beginning of any article or book on composition and design...so, at this time I can't refer you to anything in particular.

At least you are trying Ishk. It takes years to learn to feel your eye moving through a painting. I suggest this first, look at images, perhaps photos in a book, in a very dark room, where you can barely see your hand. Then, as you look at the images...you shouldn't be able to describe the photo...but only see slightly, a very dim light shape surrounded by dark...or maybe two shapes. Feeling this, doing this, is experiencing the beginning of feeling our eye move. This shape you see on this image, in a nearly black room (at night), is the beginning of your eye movement. This is where the eye will go first, and last, in your photo, even with the lights turned on. This is the greatest point of contrast. We need to be able to do this and understand this before we can understand all the other things that happen as we move through an image. Give it a try...

Amazing exercises! I will do this! Thank you for awesome time and energy helping me

Very good question. If we watch a movie that is poorly composed, that would mean perhaps that the first half of the movie is very good and exciting, it holds our attention...but then, the second half of the movie has nothing going on. A poorly composed book, half of the book is good, half of it is boring. A poorly composed meal, half of the meal is very good, the other half of the meal has nothing but bread and water. Whenever we have a good composition in a painting, we love the whole painting, our eye moves over the whole painting, not just one part of it. This is the most important part of painting, that we love the whole painting. The most important part of all art is that we love the whole work of art, not just half of it, or part of it. Hopefully this makes sense?

+bob langdon Glad my comments are helpful Bob. Yes, for me it's all about understanding how your eye moves through a painting. Figure that out and bang, powerful compositions headed your way. Good luck!

Hello Asia, glad you like my videos, thank you. I do not have any dvd's. But!!! I do have more then three hours (20 lessons) of free videos on youtube! (I don't think you need to spend your money on a DVD when everything you need to know is free on youtube. Try to watch all of the videos, they help beginners.

Stan Miller Thank you Mr.Miller, you are truly amazing man.I watched your all 20 lessons and started working on controlling brush.Sure enough in my first attemps to make squares with value it was visible how much water I had on brush.Thank you, your videos are really helpful.You are great artist and great teacher, what does not come often together

Asia Zawadzka-Lazuchiewicz Thank you so much Asia, so glad these lessons are helpful!

When beginning watercolor, any kind of wc paper will work. Any kind of wc paint will work, any color will work. As my lessons tell you, start with black paint. Learn to paint dark to light values. Learn to go from dark to light...as I show you in the values. Then, learn to find a simple subject (lesson 28) and print the image, then trace the image, then using black paint, paint the image. You then have completed the beginning stage. Do this about 20 times, with different images, using black paint. Now..you are moving towards intermediate. You then begin to use better wc paper and better paint, and using color...starting with any red, yellow and blue. See my lessons. I use Arches 140 pound wc paper, cold press. The brand of paint is unimportant, but, you need tubes of paint, not cakes (lesson 28). How to use red yellow and blue, in my lessons. Good luck!

@@Stanleylestermiller Thank you 😊

Yes, everything I teach can be applied to acrylics, oil, any painting medium.

Oh thank you . That is good to know since I like both watercolor and acrylics. Thank you so much for your lessons.

Yes, in all things, there is the left, right brain reaction. Music, left brain hears words, right brain music. Speaking, left brain hears what we are saying, right brain hears our tone of voice. Painting, left brain see what the subject is, right brain just sees shapes, colors, patterns, textures, etc.

I watched the following lessons and learned that I don't need to start the point of interest in the same position, but still not sure about the direction of eye movement.

Hello Olina, There are many ways for the eye to move through a painting. One way is to have the left brain point of interest on the opposite side of the right brain point of interest (high contrast). All that mattes is that the viewer desires to move their eye through the entire composition. If we only desire to look at one part of our composition and if we find the rest of the composition not very interesting, this is not good. We need to 'FEEL" our eye moving so we know if our eye is moving throughout the whole painting. It is ok if we have a strong point of interest...but we MUST desire to leave this strong point of interest and explore the rest of the composition. I hope this helps.

Hi Stan, thanks for your quick reply and it is very helpful! I will think and practice more. I really appreciate it. :D

Hi Donald, there are many ways to strect watercolor paper. If you type into youtube search, "How to strect watercolor paper" you will find many many ways to stretch your paper...including stapling your paper. Here's a few links: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jsWlmMeXv9vaiKM.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kMujisyku9G0gWQ.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ndFdn5aBnNORYps.html

To become advanced, one needs to understand composition. In the beginning, we are just making A, B, and C's. When we learn how to write, then we move on to composition. To become a good writer, one needs to understand composition. Watercolor, in the beginning, we try to control the water, the colors, learn how to draw. When we become advanced, we then need to understand composition...this would be thousands of hours of practice before composition starts to become important.