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Still water and towering karsts reflect one another, creating initial symmetry, but each form has its own organic shape and spacing.

Exploring Irregular Visual Rhythm (Weekly Challenge #181)

Learn how to use irregular visual rhythm in your landscape paintings to guide the viewer's eye and create natural harmony.

Landscape Art Club

Hay bales in a sunny field with a clear blue sky. Trees line the background, creating a calm and serene rural scene.

Capturing Balance with the Rule of Thirds (Weekly Challenge #180)

Our focus point is the Rule of Thirds: how to use it effectively to guide the viewer’s eye and create balanced compositions. Get inspired, check the photo breakdown, and join the weekly prompt.

Landscape Art Club

A wooden cabin sits in a sunlit forest clearing, surrounded by tall pine trees on a lush green hillside, under a clear blue sky.

Dynamic Lines in the Mountains (Weekly Challenge #179)

Learn how to use diagonals and dynamic composition in landscape art with this week’s reference photos from Park City, Utah.

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Red wooden houses by a river with a small boat. Colorful buildings in the background, lush green foliage in the foreground, under a clear sky.

Exploring Linear Perspective (Weekly Challenge #178)

This week, we travel to Porvoo, one of Finland’s oldest cities, to sharpen your linear perspective skills. With red warehouses, river views, and cobbled streets, this challenge offers textbook examples of one- and two-point perspective for your art practice.

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