What role could black have in your painting? Surely, if you mix it with the other colours, you’ll end up with something horribly muddy-looking? Let’s imagine that you’re making liberal use of vibrant shades of blue, red and yellow in your abstract painting, perhaps with dashes of white to provide some well-placed highlights. Black lines aren’t only good for outlines All that you have to do to provide the right ground for your painting is sand the panel and treat it with gesso. Indeed, medium-density fibreboard (MDF) panels and acrylic paint go very well together. You don’t necessarily need to stretch or buy a canvas to get started with abstract painting. It’s not just canvas on which you can paint In short, in theory at least, it is about revelling in paint itself. The wonder of abstract painting is the realisation that we don’t necessarily need to be bound by the traditional ‘rules’ and ‘techniques’ of painting, or the apparent need for what we paint to ‘represent’ a tangible real-world object at all. Release the realism, the heavy influence of other artists, and start to build a true to you body of work, whether for your own pleasure, to move toward selling, or both.Abstract in Jet Emerald | Photo by Arty Aitch (via ArtWeb)īut in truth, abstract painting does bring us close to this unfettered form of creativity and emotional expression that we may widely consider music to be.
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Or do you have any techniques that help you make abstracts? My list is by no means exhaustive so please do share your own experience! I don’t always use one, but sometimes I like to have one of my own photos to hand, or something I found on Pinterest lately.ĭo you have any questions? If so, pop them in the comments and I’ll do my best to help. This might sound counterintuitive, but actually having a specific starting point helps me a lot, especially as someone coming from a representational background. So I thought I’d share what I suggested to Michele who asked the question, and expand on it a bit since it might help you too. The question got me thinking how DO you make an abstract painting that works? Naturally that’s partly down to the beholder, but for me there are definitely things that makes an abstract painting feel more successful. Here’s an ‘almost abstract’ I finished recently still reminiscent of the dune paintings I was doing earlier this year, but heading into the unknown with some strange and interesting marks.
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