Composition is the hidden plan of your artwork. It's what first grabs attention, then invites the viewer in and encourages them to move throughout the piece, staying enchanted from first glance to last.

In this workshop, teaching artist Anne Pfeiffer will share composition wisdom from master and contemporary artists, and lead you in hands-on practice. You'll create thumbnail sketches from on-site views and photo references, and analyze existing works of art to see composition principles in action. These sketching exercises will build a compositional eye you can apply to any medium, whether you paint, draw, print, or work in mixed media. You'll come away with practical tools to strengthen every piece you create, at any stage in your artistic practice.

You will also receive a follow-up PDF outlining key ideas to remember when composing a landscape, so you can keep applying what you've learned long after class ends. This workshop is relevant to artists of all mediums and includes a 1-hour lunch break.