Abstract Art Painting: Expressions in Mixed Media
Language: English
Pages: 128
ISBN: 1440335842
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Would you love to take your art in a new direction?
In Abstract Art Painting, you will enter a realm of tactile, intuitive excitement, combining pastel and acrylic to achieve results as unique as you are. You'll learn how to explore the use of color theory in abstraction and to use underpainting to bring structure and depth to your art. In addition you'll begin to understand how to work in a series and how this can help you develop your own personal style.
A sampling of what you'll add to your creative toolbox:
- Pastel and acrylic techniques to use to complete your own paintings
- The benefits of expressing your ideas abstractly
- How to loosen up by using your nondominant hand and drawing to music
- Ways to express emotions through mark-making
- Using color and symbolism for expression
- Working with photos for inspiration
- Tips for using color studies
Step into your own abstract frame of mind today!
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Evident within a landscape painting where you see the Z or S in the bend of a road or river. You can also use this composition within an abstract painting. Avoid dividing the surface equally with a Z or S curve, and try variations of placement and movement within the picture plane. Look through photographs and see if you can find an S or Z curve. You may find this in photographs of landscapes. Simplify all shapes and re-create them on your surface. Sometimes you can leave more space at the top.
Then paint an underpainting with fluid acrylic. This gives you an initial wash of color and helps build the underlying structure of your work. You can draw on the underpainting with charcoal and hard pastel before applying the ground. After the underpainting is dry, go over it with pastel ground, applied with a slightly damp wide brush. Experiment with how much you want to dilute the ground. After applying the pastel ground, dry with a hair dryer to help keep the paper flat. What You Need.
Complete Works You have created small sketches and studies and now want to move on to larger works. You approach a larger work much the same way as a smaller one. The smaller works will be of benefit to you as you begin to work larger. Your planning and initial process will be very similar whether you are creating a pastel or an acrylic painting. You can begin both in the same way but on different surfaces. You may want to work your way up in size of paper or canvas. Initially you may want to.
Abstraction seems like a mystery to them. After attending my workshop, many artists tell me “Now I know how to start.” It often looks more mysterious than it is. I find abstraction simple but very challenging. It should be challenging or it would be easy for anyone to do it. Working abstractly stretches an artist. So how does one go about creating an abstract work? What is the process an artist goes through? It is as individual as the artist is. The artist’s style has probably developed over a.
Changing your focus. Your abstract expression of the landscape may become an emotional reaction to the environment. Choose your colors based on this reaction. Use lines differently to express your response to the landscape. Choose a small portion of the landscape to focus on. You are inspired by the same impression or concept, but you express it in your own way. Abstraction provides freedom but is also very challenging. It should be exciting. Working abstractly is much more than marks on paper.