Part 9 : Mood Of Abstract Painting

Hello! Nice to see you again today! Thank you to still reading my post. Today I want to share something to you. Today let's we learn about mood in the painting. Usually when we paint, we like to boring or tired. Now I want to teach you how to make a good painting in all situation.

First, one thing that you have to know is " Your Paint is yourself ". Many people paint without feeling. They just paint on without a purpose. It wasn't a good decision. Make your own paint with all of your heart. Make it be a usefull painting.

Second, "Dont be scare about fail". It makes you stronger than before. It trains you to be a strong man. Be a man, face your giant, Make your imagination fly free. Sometimes it make an Inspiration to painting the another.

Third, " You could paint an unpredicted painting in different mood. Just paint what inside of your mind. Be creative! Just try on now. It would be surprise you! Trust me! I've tried before.

Just like these..

How are they? Nice right? It was a good painting. If you want to paint like these, first you have to begin with simple one, then create it more complicate. Just feel your imagination creation.  Enjoy them!

Quick tips for abstract painting techniques:

• Keep your painting composition as simple as possible.
• Keep your colors as simple as possible. Start with two or three colors, explore their possibilities to their full extent, only add other colors if the painting needs it.
• Work from big to small: first fill the whole canvas with a background.
• Try out different gestures: 'feel' what they mean, and use these qualities.
• Also 'feel' your way into different area's of your painting, and relate them to the way you feel your own body (it helps, when you work standing up).
• If you want your painting to have 'body': don't cling too much to your first strokes. Paint like a construction worker, when you do a first layer, and paint over that without pain in your heart.
• But when the painting has 'body', or you like a thin and ethereal look: hardly no effort can improve on the purity of the first stroke.

How abstract is abstract?

When you paint, you always refer to something. If it isn't to the outside world, it is to your own body, or mood, something you know, or the idea you have in mind while you paint. My experience is: when you paint without having any subject in mind, you create a depiction of yourself, or the way you are or feel at that moment. Sometimes even organs like the heart or the kidneys can be pointed out on a painting like that. This body-thing is important, because in abstract painting techniques, you actually work with the thinking capacity of your body. Just likt graffity-painters and dancers do. And: when you conciously relate to your painting with your body, you will enable your onlookers to do the same, and feel their way into your painting. When you let go of the outer appearance of things, delivered by the eyes, the body is the first thing you have in common with your on lookers.

The human factor

We are humans, and for a painting to be beautiful or meaningful to us, it has to have some relation to what we are. Not all abstract painters are formal; Mark Rothko, an abstract colorfield painter, declared that he was in no way interested in form or the relation between form or color. He said, all he was interested in, was depicting basic human emotions like fear, love, exaltation and such.

Some painters think that abstract painting techniques need to be disharmonic - but it doesn't have to be that way. A painting can affect you in two different ways - one way is: luring you in with beauty, offering a space or a scene that you're free to respond to - or not. The painting doesn't do anything directly: it waits, untill you are ready to open your soul, and allow the experience. 

The other way to make an artwork impressive is by force - by presenting effects that are ugly, disharmonic or painful to look at. Uglyness is often a necessary ingredient for a good artwork. Some artworks however are disharmonic or painful to look at, without offering any kind of solace or transformation. Some people actually find this kind of art really beautiful or important. And others wonder how an artist could possibly do that stuff.

This is not about making judgments. It's necessary to deal with things that are cruel, not nice, or ugly. I like artworks that show a way of dealing with these facts of life. Like reality, art can't only be beautiful. It can't be only ugly either. What matters is, if it generates some meaning - which is something beyond ugly or beautiful.

Creating abstract art

When doing abstract painting techniques, you work with all the elements that you use in realistic painting. You use form, color, some navigation in space, proportions, composition. The difference with realism is: you go to the inside of things, instead of the outside. However, there's a sidetrack or parallel universum you can loose yourself into: the mathematic world of form or color, where all forms and qualities are abstract, and equally interesting and valuable. Kandinsky had a certain incling to that. You can prevent yourself from getting lost, by choosing a subject, define its meaning, and stick to it.

Subjects in abstract painting techniques

Abstract painting techniques are very suitable to sort things out for yourself. You can paint any subject, as long as you stick to it. Some suggestions:

• A mood or feeling, preferrably linked to memorizing a concrete event. What did your anger look like?
• Contrasting qualities: hard-soft, big-small, simple-complicated, light-heavy etc.
• A person - what is he or she like, when you think away the face? Paint him/her in colors and form. You'll be surprised.
• Very interesting: take a map of your country or part of the world, and color it (don't stay within the lines of the borders!)
• Take the medical encyclopedea, and 'translate' functions of an organ, or the nervous system into an abstract painting

Abstract painting techniques in art history

Abstract painting techniques are pretty new in art history. Before world war 2, they were still referred to as 'gegenstandslos', meaning "immaterial" or "without objects". At that time, the goal of abstract painting was explicitly spiritual, done with the aim of exploring new worlds of experience. After WW2, abstract painting went more formal (as the spiritual went temporarily out of fashion).

There's a big difference between old abstract painters like Mondrian or Kandinsky, and contemporary ones. The old ones had an old-fashioned training in realistic oil painting techniques. In that, they learned about natural proportions and color. They took this knowledge into their abstract work, which gives it its actual quality.

Thank you for your attention. See you next week.. God Bless You

PART 6 :: Style Of Abstract Painting

         Painter used many styles in their paintings and drawings. Abstract artists felt that paintings did not have to show only things that were recognizable. In their paintings they did not try to show people, animals, or places exactly as they appeared in the real world. They mainly used color and shape in their paintings to show emotions. 

         Here is the example of abtract painting. This picture was painted a few minutes ago. It was my new abstract painting.

         There are many different abstract styles. There are three forms of abstraction that really stands out: Cubism, Neoplasticism, and Abstract Expressionism. There are many abstract artists who painted in these styles, however there are some that are more well know in a particular field than the rest. 

       For example, the some of the most famous cubist were Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. One of the best examples of Neoplasticism is Piet Mondrian . Two of the most famous examples of Abstract Expressionism are Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. 

      Abstract Expressionism is a style of painting in which the painter shows his personality through spontaneity. Most abstract expressionist art is not a painting of an object or image, but instead a study in color and brush stroke. Here is the example of my art.

      Neoplasticism is the belief that art should not be the reproduction of real objects, but the expression of the absolutes of life. To the artists way of thinking, the only absolutes of life were vertical and horizontal lines and the primary colors. Here is the another example of Neoplasticism.

      Cubism is a more modern art movement in which forms are abstracted by using an analytical approach to the object and painting the basic geometric solid of the subject. Cubism itself follows Paul Cezanne statement that "Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone, and the cylinder." Another way that the cubist expressed their painting was by showing different views of an object put together in a way that you can not actually see in real life. Here is the example.

Thank you for your attention and God Bless You..


 

Extra Part ::

Abstract painting might not look hard, as if the artist did not know what they were painting. It might look like it. However, this is far from the truth. Abstract can be more difficult than landscape or scenery, because there is nothing to copy from.

Steps

1. Buy a ready made canvas in a craft store. Buy any size that you feel you would like to work on. A smaller one, 10x10, or 12x12 might be best, if you are just learning and experimenting. The canvas will be ready to work on as is, but if you prefer a colored background, buy a jar of paint, to prime the canvas and give it a touch of color. Another option is using canvas board, which is cheaper.
2. Decide whether to use acrylics or oil paint. Acrylics are easy to work with. They dry fast and can be painted over if you make a mistake.
3. Buy a color chart and paints and brushes. Buy the basic colors at first, and use the color chart to determine which colors belong together.
4. Start your painting by thinking of an object, or a scene. Do not think of the actual drawing, just dwell on the thought. Look at a vase, not at how it actually would be sketched, but how you would think it would look. Your imagination, and your feelings will create what you paint on the canvas. Remember, you are interpreting, not drawing.
5. Study composition principles and see if you can do an abstract painting based on the idea of one of those principles rather than on a specific subject. This is very likely to turn out as a good abstract painting!
6. Allow the brush to take over painting with one color. Add another color, shade it, make it lighter at any part, or heavier at another. Improve what you see on the canvas and of what you think should be added.
7. Add a bit of yellow, to a part of the red, blend it and make various shades of orange. Some areas will be darker, some lighter according to the brush strokes.
8. Remember once you feel that the painting is finished, STOP. Do not go back to improve or touch it up. Do not overwork your painting, but learn to finish it, the moment you feel it is finished.

Edit Tips

• Experiment with adding textures to the canvas, and painting over them for added depth to the painting.
• Use colors according to the feeling you wish to paint. Read about colors and how to use them to express emotions. Reds and yellows will be happy, while blues, blacks, and browns will signify darker feelings. The feeling you wish to convey will depend on the colors and brush strokes you use.
• Don't be afraid of drips and splatters. At times drips might add texture to your painting and so will splatters especially of a blending color.
• Don't wear nice clothes. Wear something you don't mind getting paint on.
• Sometimes the best pictures you make are the ones with your eyes closed. So don't be afaid to close your eyes and just have fun with it.

Warnings

• Wash your brushes with a cleaning solution after you are finished painting to keep your brushes soft and usable.
• You can also wrap your brushes in clear film or a carrier bag and they will stay fresh for weeks.
• Be sure to store your brushes brush-side up.

Thank you for your attention and good luck.

PART 5 : Breakthrough

Hello! How are you today? Nice to see you again today. Thank you for still reading my blog, I hope that you were learned something from my post. I hope that you are not wasting your time. So, please enjoy it. 

Here is my new creation. It was amazing one. Something important that I got from this abstract art when I was painting is how to keep working hard what ever happen. And it satisfied me.

When we talk about abstract painting, it mean we uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition art. We talk about the logic of perspective and produce an illusion of visible reality. Abstract painting have no limit. It was your own creation world. And it was a part of cultural which is amazing one.

Here is the other one of my creation. It was contain a lot of lines and it makes amazing unity. 

Many people felt need to create a new kind of art which one is not stagnant, and in the other side people also need something new. So, people start thinking about new design of Art. They make a new project to expand a new kind of art. It was independent one. Every one can develop their own creations.

Here is the another one of my art creation. It was amazing one, it was characterize an Invisible Hero. 

In fact how to make abstract art is not complicated. It was easy, you only have to silent for a moment, and than thinking what you have to paint. It have out fresh from your own feeling. Your painting must have a meaning. Than just painting, you don't have worry about your painting. Just believe into yourself. I believe that the result will surprise you. Trust me! 

Begin with something easy and simple. Here is the example..

Thank you for your attention and good luck. God bless you.. Have a nice day..