JUDY SHREVE (Suggested for Stage Three; Learning)

Judy Shreve is enjoying success with her wonderful childlike drawings, but wants to know how to make her work more sophisticated, and more abstracted. In this month’s Art Critique, Nicholas demonstrates and explains to Judy—and all of us—several ways to accomplish this.

Some highlights in the interview:

• The three things that can make your art more sophisticated: use of color, predominance of character or message through value and design, and scale
• Desaturating color changes the mood of a piece, making it less playful
• If one thing is bigger in your composition it becomes more iconic, more symbolic, and it takes on more power
• Increasing the size of your art changes the feel of it and the message it carries
• The process of making your art grows you and you have to keep up with it

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