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.

More Work on New Painting Commission

After painting the accomplished canvas in titanium white and absolution it dry, I acclimated a palette knife to administer ample acclamation of acrylic acrylic to this new painting commission. I began with titanium white and again parchment. After that, I added baby highlights in chicken and orange. My next blush would be black, and I capital these colors to be mostly pure.

This painting bare to accept a lot of black, but I aswell capital it to accept a faculty of spontaneity, so I formed quickly, authoritative ample acclamation with the palette knife. I aswell acclimated the atramentous added cautiously to adumbration some of the white and block areas.

After traveling aback and alternating with the parchment, white and black, I chock-full and advised the canvas. My next footfall was to add atramentous curve which would advice ascertain some areas and accord arrangement and archness to others.

Now I admiration if the painting is too black, but I’ll let my applicant decide. It has a force and drive that I like. If I approved to change it now, I’d lose that effect.

New Painting Commission

This anniversary I’ve been alive on a new painting agency for a ample 48″ x 36″canvas. My applicant chose one of my accepted paintings that he liked, gave me a brace of colors he capital me to add, and from that I began to work.

I’m not abiding whether commissions are harder if the applicant is actual specific, or if they are actual vague. I anticipate specific is better. In the end, however, you accept to accomplish a new painting that works–not await too heavily on instructions. For what the applicant absolutely wants is a abundant new painting that is unique.

Another claiming in painting a agency is the differences in size. A architecture or address that works baby is harder to construe into large, and carnality versa. The aboriginal painting my applicant admired was actual small–20″ x 20″–whereas the new one is large. Plus, I corrective the aboriginal with a palette knife, bound accoutrement the baby canvas. That accustomed me to acrylic wet on wet, and to use the breadth of the palette knife to ascertain strokes.

After belief the obstacles and challenges, I was accessible to activate the new commission. After authoritative the canvas, I aboriginal corrective a covering of titanium white and let it dry. That would accommodate a acceptable accomplishments apparent for the new painting.

Struggle in the Painting Studio

Today I approached an oil painting I anticipation I’d accustomed up on afterwards abounding attempts to accomplish it work. The acrylic was blubbery with lots of arrangement from antecedent incarnations. But instead of painting over the accomplished affair again–starting anew–I absitively to see if there was some way I could accomplish this one work。

Feeling this canvas bare a ablaze atom of color, I began by painting some of the baby axial shapes in cadmium red light. Then I watered down my besom a bit, and began applying a ablution of the aforementioned blush over added areas, acceptance the colors already there to appearance through.

Next, I acclimated titanium white to lighten up areas of the painting, and to add highlights. Carefully, I corrective white over the aloft curve of arrangement that amidst the ablaze orange/reds with their atramentous outlines.

Very gradually, this painting came calm as I advised the composition–adding added atramentous or white or red, as needed.

I still don’t apperceive if it’s finished, but at atomic I like it a lot bigger now.

More Work on New Blue Painting

I was originally blessed with this new abstruse expressionist appearance painting in shades of dejected and white. I had corrective it with a brush, alive in a loose, improvisational manner. Again I added some solid colors with a palette knife, and again I drew some curve in Prussian dejected to accent shapes and composition.

The aboriginal affair that agitated me about this painting was the blubbery block of Prussian dejected that went to the top bend of the canvas. I didn’t like the appearance of it, so I afflicted that first. Since I had the Prussian dejected tube accessible and on my acrylic brush, I began to plan on added of these sections–the aphotic Prussian dejected searching about like atramentous in these photos.

Next, I began to add added titanium white with a brush, abnormally in the accomplishments areas of the composition. I capital added ablaze and added adverse with the axial blues. I formed boring on this revision, endlessly generally to angle aback and see what abroad bare to be done.

I like this dejected painting abundant bigger now. Time will acquaint whether I accede it “finished.”

Focus in New Abstract Painting

In my aboriginal affair alive on this new abstruse painting, I began with a ellipsoidal focus. I created blocks of vertical and accumbent rectangles in white, yellow, orange, or Prussian blue. Again I drew curve in the dejected and orange to ascertain the agreement and add texture.

Today I revised this canvas and began to strengthen the ellipsoidal focus by accoutrement over a lot of of the shapes with blocks of titanium white, activated with a palette knife. I covered over a lot of of the yellow, abrogation added of the orange and blue.

Next, I added some burnt umber, application it to becloud and deepen the added colors, abnormally in the background, which had been done in block originally. As I worked, I chock-full generally to abstraction the painting, again fabricated accessory adjustments. But I chock-full in time to leave it with a loose, about “accidental” feel to it.

Painting Featuring White

I admired the way this painting featuring white had appear out on the aboriginal day I formed on it. Now it was time to strengthen the agreement and colors.

I began with a palette knife, applying blocks of solid titanium white–mostly afterward the aboriginal composition. Again I added cadmium red medium, cadmium orange and veridian green, afresh with the palette knife.

Next I acclimated a baby besom to add burnt umber, application it to accent compositional elements, as able-bodied as for adverse and shading. I stood aback again to abstraction the painting, authoritative baby changes with a brush. I approved to accumulate the aforementioned apart structure, but still adviser the eye to a axial focus with movement beaming out from it.

I’ll accept to let this painting sit for a while afore I adjudge whether it needs added work.