STAY HOME, STAY WELL AND BE CREATIVE!
As I wrote in my last blog, my goal is to write my future posts geared to help you, my readers, stay at home and explore spending time pursuing activities that pacifies our minds and souls. So let's begin with something easy and unusual.
"A is for abstract"
Have you ever felt like unleashing your inner artist and painting some non representational art? Well here is your chance to learn first hand how easy it is to have some fun with abstraction! |
| "Living life to it's fullest" poured w/c & acrylics on paper ©Beattie |
Join me today as I show you how to paint with your imagination and mind's eye. Following are instructions to create your own art, but if you would like to read and see more photos about how I create my abstract art than please go to my web site blog page
How to create your own abstract art?
Materials that you will need:
any type of white paper or a canvas of any size that you like
drawing pencil or pen
choose either colored pencils, watercolor, acrylic paints or any type of kid's tempra paints
brushes or Q-tips ( yes, you can use Q-tips like a brush)
Collect a bunch of stuff to trace and you are ready to rumble!
STEP 1 Lay out a bunch of objects like scissors, scotch tape holders, sewing forms, circular container tops or square angels. Anything will work . you are going to lay your objects onto your painting surface and start tracing their shapes, making sure to intersect the forms that you are tracing so that big shapes over-lap and create smaller shapes.
STEP 2 If you are using acrylics or colored pencils
As an artist you can use any type of medium. You will begin by coloring the shapes that you have created in your artwork. Try to create a road of one color across the artwork and then fill in other areas with different colors or create patterns inside of the larger shapes using stripes or dots etc. in whatever fashion pleases you. Use white paint, if you desire to have white shapes in your acrylic artwork.
If you are you using watercolor paints on paper? Then begin by mixing a small puddle of watercolor paint on your palette. If you do not have an official painter's palette that you can user a white foam or plastic plate.
Next color in a shape that you love with your brush and paint. Yes it is that simple!
Now move to another shape that is not directly next door to the color that you just filled in. The idea is to let the first shape dry otherwise your paint will seep from one shape to another.
If you want to leave an area white then do not fill in that shape with paint. Color around those places that you want to remain white and paint free.
Go ahead and keep filling in areas around your artwork using first one color and then another favorite color or create patterns of lines or dots in some of the large shapes until the abstract "landscape" is filled in completely.
STEP 3 Let your painting dry for a little while or use a hairdryer to dry the surface quickly.
STEP 4 If you want you can consider layering a second layer of color over a few of your favorite shapes.
You can also outline shapes that you are particularly fond of.
Here is one of my new paintings for 2020:
You may even want to add another layer of unique patterns if you like...Hay this is an abstract you can add whatever you like to your painting.
Just have fun!
Now everybody Be Fearless, Let's be creative!
Oh and don't forget more creative how to ideas will be posted regularly, so please come back every week. Stay well my friends and remember my Fearless Motto : Stay well & stay creative!
How to create your own abstract art?
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| "Sea Breeze" © Beattie acrylics on canvas |
Materials that you will need:
any type of white paper or a canvas of any size that you like
drawing pencil or pen
choose either colored pencils, watercolor, acrylic paints or any type of kid's tempra paints
brushes or Q-tips ( yes, you can use Q-tips like a brush)
Collect a bunch of stuff to trace and you are ready to rumble!
STEP 1 Lay out a bunch of objects like scissors, scotch tape holders, sewing forms, circular container tops or square angels. Anything will work . you are going to lay your objects onto your painting surface and start tracing their shapes, making sure to intersect the forms that you are tracing so that big shapes over-lap and create smaller shapes.
STEP 2 If you are using acrylics or colored pencils
As an artist you can use any type of medium. You will begin by coloring the shapes that you have created in your artwork. Try to create a road of one color across the artwork and then fill in other areas with different colors or create patterns inside of the larger shapes using stripes or dots etc. in whatever fashion pleases you. Use white paint, if you desire to have white shapes in your acrylic artwork.
If you are you using watercolor paints on paper? Then begin by mixing a small puddle of watercolor paint on your palette. If you do not have an official painter's palette that you can user a white foam or plastic plate.
Next color in a shape that you love with your brush and paint. Yes it is that simple!
Now move to another shape that is not directly next door to the color that you just filled in. The idea is to let the first shape dry otherwise your paint will seep from one shape to another.
If you want to leave an area white then do not fill in that shape with paint. Color around those places that you want to remain white and paint free.
Go ahead and keep filling in areas around your artwork using first one color and then another favorite color or create patterns of lines or dots in some of the large shapes until the abstract "landscape" is filled in completely.
STEP 3 Let your painting dry for a little while or use a hairdryer to dry the surface quickly.
STEP 4 If you want you can consider layering a second layer of color over a few of your favorite shapes.
You can also outline shapes that you are particularly fond of.
Here is one of my new paintings for 2020:
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| "Midnight Regatta" 24 x 29 poured watercolors and acrylics on paper © 2020 |
You may even want to add another layer of unique patterns if you like...Hay this is an abstract you can add whatever you like to your painting.
Just have fun!
Now everybody Be Fearless, Let's be creative!
Oh and don't forget more creative how to ideas will be posted regularly, so please come back every week. Stay well my friends and remember my Fearless Motto : Stay well & stay creative!
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