Working with the 15 types of composition

My goal for my 2023 100 day project is to create a 12-month calendar with works on paper. I had settled into a kind of artistic rut with my abstracts on paper where I was starting in the top left of my paper, starting broad, and then narrowing down. All of my works more or less an inverted triangle composition, e.g.:

I had become familiar with some basic ideas for thinking about composition, such as the rule of thirds, but I wanted ideas about how to generate a wider variety of compositions. I came across this blog post about 15 types of composition, and have been working with those for the past week.

I spent some time doing some quick sketches, for example, this circular composition sketch:

I’m enjoying mixing it up with the 15 different composition types. At the moment, some of the works are coming out too literal or close to the composition type, but I’m hoping that by working with them more, I’ll find ways to be loose with them while still creating cohesive compositions.