Had fun with composition in this one.

This composition idea came from watching a lecture on composition and how to use light/shadow and framing to draw the eye around and around in a painting. So your eye moves around that lit circle that’s made out of the trees and the water.

This Caravaggio does it by lighting the guy’s sleeve. So your eye goes there, then follows direction of his arm down to table and then up to lit hand and cards in it, follows that up to the faces; the guy’s finge...