This April I am teaching a weekly class for the month of April on Composition. The class will teach students how to create strong, clear, and dynamic compositions from photographs. It will show how the composition drives the success of a painting. We will study historical and contemporary paintings, deriving the compositions from them. Students will bring in their photographs to create compositions and start to paint. I will do several demonstration of this process as well as painting in the classes. How to omit unnecessary detail from the painting, which shape is the painting about, and so much more will be covered in the class.