Learning composition from children’s books

As creative artists we should be also looking for inspiration outside of our own industry and fields and genres.  This helps us look outside of what everyone else is doing (wedding photography for me) and finding new concepts to incorporate into your own business. This includes the art, the business and the branding. Let’s take the art: last night I saw a great movie called Oblivion.  Right in the movie and used so well at the end was one of my very favorite paintings, Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth  https://pinterest.com/pin/135811744983257228/

Andrew Wyeth happens to be a massive influence on me. I first fell in love with his paintings as freshman in high school. I will always go back and learn from his compositions and mood.

I have loved books that Doris Burn illustrated. My favorite children’s book of all time was Andrew Henry’s Meadow.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Burn

I just found this book by Doris.

http://readmeastorynow.blogspot.com/2011/06/we-were-tired-of-living-in-house.html

The compositions are wonderful! You can learn a lot from her subject placements and use of lines created by the subjects. Her use of triangles. Her use of contrast and space to make the subject pop from the chaotic forests full of interweaving lines. Her use of direction and action to move us along from page to page. Truly you could take her concepts to weddings and create better stories with your isolations and crops.

Never stop learning! Never stop studying and never just study wedding photographers or wedding photography.