When choosing additions to your art, if you are thinking of them in relationship to the other existing marks, shapes or imagery, they will naturally feel more integrated. In the end, your own sensibilities, what you say “yes” or “no” to begins to integrate all the elements of the work. For example, if you have a medium sized, dark, red shape that exists in your painting, you might add something that feels different in relationship to this. In other words, something with characteristics that are the opposite of what already exists. You might add something rectangular, or something very small, and maybe even a medium or light valued color. It would be doubtful that you would have created this new shape without referencing the first shape to give yourself some direction. These two shapes, because they are different from each other in several ways are enhancing each other’s appearance. This also integrates them and makes them feel they belong together. They are visually connected and related because they were specifically made by you to reside together. Integration occurs when the existing elements are considered as you add the new ones.