Abstract Art

I’m demography a breach from painting and authoritative my abstruse art with calligraphy pens for now. I use Zig Memory Pens, which accept abiding archival inks in a pen with two tips, one for ample acclamation and one for bigger detail. I accept a accomplished set with just about every blush I could dream of using.

In animosity of accepting all these colors, I kept my palette to a minimum in today’s drawing, which is rather dispersed for me. I began with across-the-board blubbery atramentous lines, application two altered pens. The aboriginal one was abbreviate on ink, which larboard a grayish, atramentous line. The additional was full, blubbery and dark. 

Next I took a bluish-gray pen and fabricated a few blubbery and attenuate lines. The nice affair about the calligraphy pens is that you can alter the array artlessly by alteration the bend you authority it on the paper.

Next, I took a anemic dejected besom pen and acclimated it to ample in some of the shapes I’d created. I abounding in others with a darker gray-blue besom pen. My final accomplish were done with Kohinoor accomplished point pens in red and black. I drew baby circles, traveling over them several times to get the array I wanted.

New Abstract Painting on Canvas

After accoutrement over a canvas I wasn’t blessed with, I began a new abstruse painting utilizing the arrangement created in the antecedent image. I began this one with titanium white, applying it with a besom to anatomy an baggy axial shape.

Next, I attenuated Indian chicken and raw sienna at the edges of the white, aggregate them as I did. Then I alloyed a attenuate ablution of Prussian dejected and mars atramentous with baptize and appearance medium. I acclimated this for the background, absolution it alloy about with the added colors.

At this point I capital a added absolute white, so I acclimated a palette knife to administer several sweeps of the white to anatomy my axial shape. I approved for an angel that bidding activity and advanced movement.

Then, with a baby brush, I added black, application it to outline the axial appearance and to aces up the arrangement from the painting underneath. I drew atramentous curve as able-bodied to accent the capital agreement and to add arrangement and detail. Then I took a dry besom and feathered those lines, added aggregate them with the background.

 

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.

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!

Working on New Abstract Paintings

I accustomed a agency afresh to accomplish two new abstract paintings that would plan alone or afraid calm a few inches apart. When faced with a claiming like that, I like to acrylic both canvases simultaneously, sometimes even application two easels so I can actually move from one to the other.

After accumulating the colors I would need, I absitively to acrylic layers of accomplishments first, which would accommodate a jumping off point for the final composition. To start, I awkward baby amounts of acrylic in accidental spots over the accomplished canvas in the afterward colors: teal, purple, acceptable and gray. After flattening out anniversary atom of paint, I covered the accomplished canvas in a admixture of anemic lavender, baptize and covering medium. I accustomed the colors to alloy as I did this.

Commissioned Painting.

After this accomplishments dried, I angry the canvas 90 degrees and corrective addition accomplishments layer. I acclimated the aforementioned colors as above, but added titanium white and parchment. This time I didn’t abrade the spots of color, but anon began painting over them with the lavender mixture, aggregate as I went.

The white helps add some ablaze to the background, which should construe into the final painting. After one added accomplishments covering of paint, I’ll be accessible to alpha the foreground.