How to Give Your Own Artwork an Art Critique

If your painting seems a little lack-luster you can learn how to do an art critique on your paintings and fix the problem before anyone else is the wiser. Art critiquing may seem difficult when it's your own work, but you can simplify the job by breaking it down into steps.

What Draws Your Attention?

The first thing you should do during a personal art critique is to try to figure out where your viewer's eye will go. Successful paintings lead the eye from the main subject, around the painting and back to the main subject.

Generally, this is done by having items point toward one another instead of off the canvas. Check to make sure that your objects aren't leading your viewer's eyes off the painting and on to something else and then make sure that your subject has enough impact to draw the viewer in. The main subject should either be the darkest or lightest area in the painting.

Check Your Painting's Composition

The unity, balance, proportion and scale will all be in harmony in a good painting composition. Often an easy way to check a painting's composition during an art critique is to turn the painting upside down. The mistakes will become more obvious to you with this new perspective. Here are some things to look for:

Does a cluster of small objects will balance a large object, or is the painting's composition too heavy on one side?

Is the color palette harmonious? Do all of the colors come from a warm color pallet or a cool color palette?

Is the composition cluttered with too many items?

Are all of the objects in your painting in proper proportion?

Do you need to scale the main object up or down to make more of an impact?

Граматичний матеріал: Майбутній перфектно-тривалий час (Future Perfect Continuous)

will/shall have been + V-ing (Present Participle)

Стверджувальна форма Affirmative	Питальна форма Interrogative	Заперечна форма Negative
I will(I'll)/shall have been doing	Shall I have been doing?	I shall not/shan't have been doing
you will have been doing	Will you have been doing?	you will not/won't have been doing
he will have been doing	Will he have been doing?	he will not have been doing
she will have been doing	Will she have been doing?	she will not have been doing
it will have been doing	Will it have been doing?	it will not have been doing
we will shall have been doing	Shall we have been doing?	we will not/shall not have been doing
they will have been doing	Will they have been doing?	they will not have been doing

Випадки вживання

Дія, яка розпочалася в минулому чи розпочнеться до якогось моменту в майбутньому і все ще буде знаходитися в процесі розвитку до самого моменту	By the end of the year she will have been teaching music for thirty years.
We will have been playing tennis for half an hour by then.

Ex. 1. Put the verbs in brackets into the future perfect or the future perfect continuous.

1. By 3 o'clock, she ... will have been studying... (study) for six hours.

2. By the end of next month, Sam..................................................................................(finish) the project.

3. He............................................................(not/start) painting the kitchen before Tuesday.

4. By the time she arrives in Paris, she...........................................................(travel) for four hours.

5. I hope I............................................................(buy) my own house by the time I'm thirty-five.

6. By Saturday, Lisa................................................................................. (diet) for two weeks.

7. Hopefully, they..............................................(learn) everything by the time they sit the exam.

8. By 4 o'clock, I...................................................(sit) in the hairdresser's for three hours.

9. By Christmas, I..............................................(work) for this company for eighteen months.

10. By next weekend, Brian.............................................................................(move) house.

11. Hopefully, the builders.............................................(finish) building the house by next month.

12. By Tuesday, Alan..................................................................................(sail) for twelve days.

13. By tomorrow morning, she...........................................................(sleep) for twelve hours.