Art demo: abstract painting inspired by shapes
Music Credit: Supine by Peter Sandberg via Epidemic Music.
In today’s video I demonstrate a way to build up an abstract painting using layers of acrylic paint and shapes. I take some of the shapes from a previous drawing exercise and use them to develop striking abstract painted pages in a sketchbook.
In this painting demonstration I am using heavy body acrylic paint from Sennelier in a Daler Rowney A3 Sketchbook which has 160gsm paper.
This paint has quite a matte finish (although I think it is technically described as satin) so it doesn’t tend to result in sketchbook pages which stick together, some heavy body paint can be quite glossy and it is this shine that results in finished pages sticking together, despite them being dry when you close your sketchbook.
This demo and exercise is messy and playful and it can create interesting and surprising results…(if you enjoy a pristine sketchbook or are at all concerned that the paint you are using might possibly cause your pages to stick together you may want to try this on a piece of paper instead). I hope you enjoy it.
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