In 2004, I took up abstract acrylic painting. Really I've just been learning how to mix colors, draw shapes, and so on. I'm sure it will sound odd but my third painting that I did in Nov. 04 involved rocks, small pebbles sticking to the canvas. (That's discussed in the next article.)
Acrylics are great for their stickyness. I love the fact that you can really mix anything in with the paint and it seals itself to the canvas. What I love about this medium is the freedom to come up with whatever design, shape, colors, textures is a huge delight for me. Anything goes. And I'm finding all sorts of things to use from tissue paper to coffee grounds to nails to rocks as I said. Granted abstract painting really is more about emotions than what real-life representation it looks like. I can't draw to save my life, but I still like slapping paint on a canvas. My paintings don't really look like anything exactly; the emotion poured into them has been the whole point of the exercise for me :)
Acrylics are great for their stickyness. I love the fact that you can really mix anything in with the paint and it seals itself to the canvas. What I love about this medium is the freedom to come up with whatever design, shape, colors, textures is a huge delight for me. Anything goes. And I'm finding all sorts of things to use from tissue paper to coffee grounds to nails to rocks as I said. Granted abstract painting really is more about emotions than what real-life representation it looks like. I can't draw to save my life, but I still like slapping paint on a canvas. My paintings don't really look like anything exactly; the emotion poured into them has been the whole point of the exercise for me :)
Attachment - Eve, Nov. 200416"x20"
Acrylic painting with molding paste on canvas
This painting (see photo) is the first I started with. I added molding paste to the acrylics to give it some texture. Acrylics dry fast so it was easy to keep working with it until I got the look I wanted. Really two or three other paintings are beneath this one because I keep messing it up. Note that this is not the complete picture of the painting. It's just a thumbnail of a portion of it.
This painting (see photo) is the first I started with. I added molding paste to the acrylics to give it some texture. Acrylics dry fast so it was easy to keep working with it until I got the look I wanted. Really two or three other paintings are beneath this one because I keep messing it up. Note that this is not the complete picture of the painting. It's just a thumbnail of a portion of it.
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