Key Discoveries in Practice:

Shoton Festival in Tibet

not over defined. This gives an abstract quality to the brushwork, and at the same time leaves a little up to the imagination of the viewer. The painting then enters into the viewer’s imagination, which makes it much more interesting to look at. Sometimes less is more! This concept of suggestion is covered in detail in Workshop L of the Virtual Art Academy® Apprentice Program. This is a larger studio painting created from imagination and various pieces of photographic reference. It is of a Tibetan Buddhist gathering in Tibet, China. A key discovery at work here is the contrast of detail. The areas circled in green are relatively well defined and detailed. On the other hand, the areas in the orange rectangles are much less defined. This gives the eye somewhere to rest. If the painting were equally detailed everywhere, it would get very tiring to look at. Another key discovery is that of suggestion. If you look at the figures in the background, you can recognize the marks as figures but they are