Adding More Light to a Abstract Painting

I admired the basal architecture of this abstruse painting, but hated its flatness–no ablaze or activity or breath space: 

To activate the transformation, I started painting over a lot of of the peach, azure and block with titanium white. I acclimated large, apart brush-strokes, giving added of a faculty of spontaneity. 

After abacus even added white, I bass down some of the amethyst with a anemic lavender. Then I added a few highlights in cadmium red light, which looks like a abysmal orange color. I added a blow of yellow, as well. 

I connected working, abacus aback in some of the peach, adjustment the purple, and finally, the aphotic asset which I acclimated for emphasis and contrast. Periodically I stood aback to see how the agreement was abstraction up. When I admired what I saw, I stopped.

Adding More Light to a Abstract Painting

I admired the basal architecture of this abstract painting, but hated its flatness–no ablaze or activity or breath space: 

To activate the transformation, I started painting over a lot of of the peach, azure and block with titanium white. I acclimated large, apart brush-strokes, giving added of a faculty of spontaneity.

After abacus even added white, I bass down some of the amethyst with a anemic lavender. Then I added a few highlights in cadmium red light, which looks like a abysmal orange color. I added a blow of yellow, as well.

I connected working, abacus aback in some of the peach, adjustment the purple, and finally, the aphotic asset which I acclimated for emphasis and contrast. Periodically I stood aback to see how the agreement was abstraction up. When I admired what I saw, I stopped.

Breaking a Horizontal LIne in a Painting

When I endure formed on this vertical painting, I admired how I’d revised it with added ablaze and energy. But I had created a accumbent band traveling beyond the painting about 1/3 of the way from the top. Upon added reflection, I absitively this breach in the vertical didn’t absolutely work.

So I began painting today by aboriginal breaking up that line. I started at the edges of the canvas, accoutrement over the band with titanium white. Basically, I afflicted the shapes aloft and beneath to breach through the line, except in the centermost area of the canvas, area I larboard it intact.

Of course, already I began to accomplish changes, I had to abide to add added colors and plan in a added all-embracing address to accomplish the agreement of the painting plan as a whole. I added added lavender, purple, and abysmal plum, affective from one blush to the next until I admired what I had.

In my endure step, I added some curve in mars black–both analogue shapes and creating texture.

Final Steps on Two Abstract Paintings

I had these two abstract paintings about for a while now, afterwards alive on them in several painting sessions. The aboriginal seemed to get worse the added I formed on it: 

It wasn’t bad at this point, but I wasn’t absolutely blessed with it. The next painting affair resulted in this: 

At that point I acquainted it bare something dramatic. I corrective a swath of titanium white from top to bottom, and a attenuated one from larboard to right. The white was not absolutely opaque, but accustomed shapes and arrangement from the painting below to appearance through. While the acrylic was still wet, I rubbed out a amphitheater in the center.

Next I drew curve in mars black, analogue the white appearance and abacus a atramentous bound for the architecture below it. I bedfast the atramentous to accomplish the curve thick.

I’m not abiding why I did all this, because it resulted in a painting that alone a mother could love:

So I’m not affecting this canvas afresh until 2014!

Adding Energy to New Abstract Paintings

After alive on four canvases over several weeks, I was blessed if my applicant best the two abstruse paintings she wanted. In my opinion, they were the best two. That larboard me chargeless to add activity and ablaze to the two paintings that I was not actual blessed with.

This time I formed in a added expressionist manner. I corrective with apart strokes, absolution the acrylic overlap and alloy on the canvas. I formed over the accomplished canvas at once, absolution the agreement gradually develop.

I started with titanium white because this painting was a addled connected at the end of my endure painting session. Then I added some anemic chicken and ablaze orange to accord added activity and energy.

I blocked out all the azure because I never acquainted that blush formed able-bodied with the lavenders and purples that bedeviled this painting. I both added and subtracted color, and rearranged the agreement as I did.

I was searching for an all-embracing feel of spontaneity, a apart impressionism that allows amplitude to breathe. I kept working, alteration from one blush to the next, slowing down against the end, until I admired what I had.

Will This Painting Ever Be Finished?

Some paintings appear easily, some don’t. I’ve been alive on this one always and admiration if I’ll anytime accomplishment it. At least, that’s the way it feels. I anticipate I admired it at one point, but if I looked aback over the photos of antecedent versions, I accept to disagree about that:

Since then, I’ve formed on it several times, but I am never absolutely blessed with it. In this next version, I abounding in some of the shapes with color, and afflicted the accomplishments color:

Then I afflicted the accomplishments blush again, but still wasn’t happy. Today I drew curve in cadmium red abysmal about some of the red shapes, and drew a brace of baby circles. I afresh acclimated a baby wet besom to ample in some of those shapes.

I was aggravating to get a stronger axial focus in the painting. Next, I categorical some of the shapes in veridian green, and afresh acclimated a wet besom to ample in some of them. After that, I took the aforementioned blush acrylic I’d acclimated on the accomplishments and abounding in added shapes with it. I aswell acclimated that blush to awning over some of the blatant white lines.

More Work on New Abstract Paintings

After finishing the accomplishments and a basal account of colors, I did added plan on two new abstruse paintings for a commission. I started by abacus blocks of titanium white, aggregate some of it into the background.

I added added of anniversary blush I acclimated before: peach, purple, teal, lavender, and aphotic purple. I acclimated ample brushstrokes, absolution the shapes advance loosely. I was searching for activity and spontaneity.

As I worked, I stood aback from the board often, to get an all-embracing consequence of the composition. Towards the end, I formed added slowly, abacus a atom of blush here, alteration something there.

My endure footfall was to draw coarse curve in black, analogue the shapes and abacus absorption and texture. I brushed over some of the curve to abrade and thicken them.

Next I formed on the additional canvas, abutting it in a agnate manner–first with the white, and again the added colors. I capital to do them both calm so they’d accept the aforementioned feel and style, yet still be different. 

Starting Two New Abstract Paintings

I was not blessed with the painting agency I’ve been alive on, so I began two new abstruse paintings advised to be afraid as a pair. I acquainted the aboriginal set of paintings was too bound after abundant ablaze and spontaneity.

First, I corrective some basal vertical shapes in the capital colors my applicant wanted: peach, purple, aphotic amethyst and teal. I aswell added a blow of alizarin crimson. I let these shapes float upward, about plant-like. Then I corrective the accomplishments in titanium white.

While the white was still wet, I activated a lavender admixture with a brush, aggregate it with the white as I went. Around the edges of the shapes, I aswell accustomed the acrylic colors to blend. This apart alpha will accommodate a anatomy and outline for the next painting stage.

Two New Abstract Paintings

Today I focused on accepting the colors appropriate for two new abstruse paintings that accept to plan calm on the aforementioned wall. They are for a commission, and my applicant was actual specific about the colors she wanted: purple, lavender, peach, azure and gray, with a blow of chrism and white.

The gray didn’t absolutely plan with these added colors, so I acclimated a aphotic amethyst instead. Usually if I paint, the blush shadings appear by itself through one blush aggregate with another. But if I had to be so specific, including alienated colors like blush and asset, the assignment became added difficult.

Instead of aggregate colors naturally, I concluded up with added solid blocks of anniversary color, aggravating to bout my client’s expectations. As I did this, the paintings became tighter, beneath ad-lib and loose.

Is this a bulletin that I should stop demography on painting commissions?

Adding More Contrast to New Paintings

As I connected plan on two new abstract paintings (see antecedent post), I aboriginal sketched in some curve in mars black. I acclimated the curve mainly to outline shapes and absolute the eye through the composition, but aswell to add movement and texture.

After feathering some of the curve with a besom to abate them, I began to highlight some shapes by painting in a added solid, blurred color. I did this with some of the titanium white and the peach.

Next, I went to plan on the additional painting, afresh cartoon curve with black. I approved to be antic with the atramentous lines, application them to outline shapes and actualize texture.

After these curve dry, I’ll do added plan with the colors and composition.

Abstract Painting with Purple

I connected plan on the two paintings for a agency I accustomed recently, alive mostly with shades of lavender and purple, as able-bodied as peach. In my endure painting session, I sketched in the basal agreement and blocks of colors.

My applicant requested that I use azure as well, which doesn’t plan that abundant with lavender and purple. I experimented with the shades of teal, application some lighter and some darker. I aswell added highlights in white and aphotic amethyst for contrast.

These paintings charge to plan on a bank together, so I formed on one for a while, and again switched to the other. They are declared to plan on their own, too, so I didn’t actualize them as a diptych, which is two canvases afraid calm to accomplish up a individual image.

New Abstract Paintings

This anniversary I connected plan on two new abstruse paintings for a agency I received. After finishing the accomplishments layers, I began to acrylic a apart agreement in the colors my applicant requested: purples, lavender, peach, azure and air-conditioned gray, with a blow of white and beige.

I corrective with a brush, alpha with the purples. I formed on one canvas, again the other, application a agnate access with a loose, all-embracing design. One botheration I noticed is that there wasn’t abundant contrast–all the colors tended to be the aforementioned amount and produced a rather collapsed effect.

I added some aphotic amethyst and aphotic gray to accommodate added adverse and definition. But the shades of azure didn’t assume to plan at all with the added colors. I can see that these paintings are traveling to be a challenge.