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10. Outro
Lessons
Introduction to Abstract Painting
09:47 2Materials and Surfaces for Painting Exercises
04:22 3Flipping Negative & Positive Space
16:09 4Translucency and the Dance of Space
11:06 5Amplifying an Image with Color
13:19 6Start From a Part
15:19 7Drawing Meets Painting
11:17 8Spray, Spill, Stencil: Experimental Applications
10:17Lesson Info
Outro
in this abstract painting class, we've explored a lot of different avenues that might give you strategies to find your relationship to abstract painting. Everybody's relationship is going to be different. I shared with you my experience being trained very academically and then over the years loosening up and finding new ways to express myself. And I think the key thing in trying things like expanding your color palette, simplifying images, playing with scale change, playing with spilling and spraying and just really letting go of any control in some cases of an outcome is an incredible way to build the bravery to continue to experiment and to notice what these effects are to notice where you might even do something accidental and say, wow, I didn't mean to do that, but I really love the effect. Well, that's now in your tool belt for abstraction. So what I really wanted to do is give you some options. Give you some choices, encourage you also to look at abstract art to look at artists a...
nd see how they have evolved perhaps from realism to abstraction. Or just notice the ones that you really feel an affinity for and keep a file of those images and look at them often as a way to inspire you to keep up your practice with abstract painting.
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Loved the class! I loved seeing all the different techniques!
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