I have called my image 'Elemental' because it is a celebration of some of our planet's most primitive constituents: air, earth and water, but it also makes strong use of 'elements', in a compositional sense. As we move upwards, there are five scenic 'ingredients', a loch, a hill, mountains, dynamic swirling cloud and an emphasised darkened band of sky to counteract the solidity of the mountains. Once compositional elements are identified I can start to visualise my composition in a more abstract and simplified fashion, I can identify the dynamic elements and think about how to render them most evocatively; elemental composition helps to focus my creativity.
I have called my image 'Elemental' because it is a celebration of some of our planet's most primitive constituents: air, earth and water, but it also makes strong use of 'elements', in a compositional sense. As we move upwards, there are five scenic 'ingredients', a loch, a hill, mountains, dynamic swirling cloud and an emphasised darkened band of sky to counteract the solidity of the mountains. Once compositional elements are identified I can start to visualise my composition in a more abstract and simplified fashion, I can identify the dynamic elements and think about how to render them most evocatively; elemental composition helps to focus my creativity.