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.