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To Leon and Monika, who both started it all,
to Jim and Penny, my constant superb critics and consultants,
to Melissa Manlove and David Macaulay, who filled me with amazed gratitude,
and with special thanks to Dick

Copyright © 1991, 2016 by Molly Bang.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Bang, Molly, author.
Picture this : how pictures work / Molly Bang. —Revised and Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition.
pages cm
ÒFirst published as Picture This: Perception and Composition by Bullfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1991.Ó
ISBN 978-1-4521-3515-1 [hardcover]
ISBN 978-1-4521-5199-1 [paperback]
ISBN 978-1-4521-5422-0 [epub]
1. Visual perception. 2. Design. I. Title.
NK1510.B258 2016
741.6Õ74—dc23
2015036410
Design by Amelia Mack.
Typeset in Nobel Book and Bodoni Egyptian.
Chronicle Books LLC
680 Second Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
www.chroniclebooks.com
Contents
Preface
Building the Emotional Content of Pictures
The Principles
From Intent to Execution
Feeling: Fury
Feeling: Sadness
Feeling: Expectancy
Feeling: Contentment, contemplation
Finally, in Defense of Instinct
Now . . . Begin
Exercise
Revision
Analysis
Further Exercises

Preface
I was quite happily making my living as a writer and illustrator of childrenÕs books. One day I was sketching objects around the house while an old friend, Leon Shiman, was visiting. Leon suggested I draw not just isolated objects, but whole views, whole pictures. The more I drew, the more I knew I was lost. As we looked at the sketches together and talked about them, Leon said, ÒYou really donÕt understand how pictures work, do you?Ó
No, I did not. I didnÕt understand picture structure. I didnÕt even understand what Òpicture structureÓ meant. But could I learn?
I took a painting course with Sava Morgan, an artist who had taught for years in New York City. I read books on art and on the psychology of art. I went to museums and galleries to look at paintings and try to figure out what I felt about them and what the paintings were doing. And I decided to make pictures with my daughterÕs third grade class, hoping IÕd learn something from teaching—as one often does.
Working with the children, I realized that I wanted to make pictures with clearly different emotions, but I also wanted to stay very simple. I decided to build an illustration from ÒLittle Red Riding Hood ............

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