Every artist is a juggler
Artists must know how to juggle the visual elements (such as forms, colors, lights and darks) within an image to make their compositions compelling and balanced. The artist must take into consideration placement, proportion, clarity, and direction, so that the individual visual elements create an optical equilibrium. A balanced arrangement of these elements may be horizontal (picture a scale, with objects of equal weight on each side), vertical (like a ladder, which distributes weight equally between top and bottom), or radial (with weight dispersed around a center point, like the rays of the sun).
