Abstract Painting Supplies for the Home

Video Transcript

"DAVID CLEMEN: Hi. I'm David Clemen on behalf of Expert Village, and today we're going to do an abstract painting. Welcome back. We're going to show you the supplies to do an abstract painting, and today we're going to use your basic canvass. I believe this is a 9 x 12 or--no, this is actually 11 x 14. This you can get at any art store, local art store. They're pretty inexpensive. I've got some basic acrylic paint here. I've got--this is one of my favorite tools, you see me almost drop it; it's called a squeegee, and this is a really neat tool to do some really cool things with paint instead of using a brush. I kinda find the brush a little limiting when I'm doing an abstract painting. This gives me a better--I can swoop the paint around and do some really neat things with this and get some texture. I've also got some--these are actually clay sculpture tools, but you can use them to kind of pull out lines and shapes when you have the paint on the canvass. And that is about it for the supplies. Also I keep a canister of water here if I do decide to use some brushes. And I've got a plethora of brushes over here. I also have this puffy paint, which is used on--it's made to put on clothing but it actually is a really neat way to apply paint to your canvass."