Come in a joyful journey of the abstract painting. You will be using brushes, palette knife, gold foils (cheaper than gold ones but same effect as real ones) and great thick luscious acrylic paints. There is something cathartic about abstract painting. You can dive into it as a meditation, for inspiration and even art therapy benefits.
Assignment
Just step into this full hearten and let yourself go into this process. Learn how to paint abstractly an acrylic turquoise painting with few touches of red, yellow and neon pink.
Follow the step by step video of learning how blend these colors and textures. Improvise your own. You can even combine your own colors that go well together. Feel free to experiment. You can easily adapt it to your creative approach and individual style.
In this process you can find your expressive language which can lead to satisfying projects.
Materials:
Acrylic paints (Amsterdam): white, turquoise, blue, yellow, brown, neon pink
Squared stretched canvas, bigger is always better.
Palette knife, big flat brush, small flat bush
Gold foil (the cheap kind), glue for the foil (if the art supply store doesn’t have it, just dilute some white glue with 30% water), paper towels (cleaning up the brushes)
Deliverable
A finished abstract painting with gold foil. It can be any colors you chose.
Don’t hesitate to ask any questions if you feel stuck. Looking forward for seeing the results. Share your pictures of your process and in the Project Gallery of this class.
Don’t worry if you don’t have these specific colors you can use any others keeping in mind to use colors that go well together and keep it simple (for example you can go for complementary) or you can search for color “pallets” on Pinterest. This is the beauty of abstract painting. Choosing beautiful colors that go well together you can create beautiful artworks using this technique
This course is for beginners, and not only, who want to know more about acrylic painting. In this class you will learn techniques on how to make large abstract paintings with various acrylic paint and gold leaf. You are encouraged here to use your free hand, create new patterns and satisfying textures.
Why acrylic paint? acrylics yield some of the most gorgeous colors and ingenuous results. In addition to being incredibly easy to use acrylic is quite inexpensive.
The process of making this artwork is easy and relaxant. It’s ideal for beginners in the sense of time, resources and the result. Painting spontaneously with no pre-planning gives great freedom for your creativity. It’s a very easy and intuitive work with an even paced rhythm for a fast, gorgeous result and you are going to learn exactly how to do that in this course.
By the end of this course you will have the skills to paint your own acrylic abstract paintings, using simple materials and technique. You will learn how to do your own compositions using palette knife and colors like turquoise, red, orange, yellow and even neon pink. The combination between turquoise
Build a great texture into an artwork that you can put on your wall in any direction or give as a present to a loved one.
You are few brush stokes away from your own beautiful amazing abstract painting!
