Robert Moore
Stay in Control of Your Composition!!!

Winter's Virtue
oil on canvas
60 x 48 in
(152.4h x 121.92w cm)

"Stay in control of your composition, don’t just paint things the way you see them. You are the creator, you are in charge, and the references from nature are just tools. They are just files from which you can pull shapes, colors and relationships. The end product is your canvas. Apply what you know to make your painting better and exaggerate the depth and beautiful relationships, or get a post-it note and stick it on your painting that says, “I know my painting is boring, monotonous, and flat but it really looked that way.” It's your choice. I encourage you to be in control and not say, "That's the way it really looked."

Don't worry about style, style will take care of itself. You don't have to try to be different, you are different. Just be yourself and put things down the way you would put them down expressing the unique treasure that is you. No one else can do it the way you do it."    Robert Moore