Video: Abstract Painting Supplies

Materials you'll need to create your large format abstract painting including birch wood and acrylic paint; learn this and more in this free online art lesson about abstract painting taught by expert David A. Clemen.

Video Transcript

DAVID CLEMEN: Hi. I'm David Clemen on behalf of Expert Village, and today, we're going to do an abstract painting on a larger scale on a piece of birch wood. Today, like I've mentioned before, we're going to use this large piece of birch wood which is actually sanded. You can get this at pretty much any hardware or wood store in your area. This has been cut by the store. I just gave them a certain dimension. I believe this is like 18 x 5 feet. I have artist tape here, which I'll use. I have my favorite tool which is a squeegee, and you can get this at a sign shop. This is actually used to apply vinyl to glass or vehicles and the things like that. So, this is used--it's basically a squeegee. But if you can't find one of these, an old credit card or library card or an old 2 x 5 card, 2 x 4 card that you might be willing to sacrifice for your artistic endeavors, will work just fine, any old credit card or bank card or anything like that. I've got three tubes of acrylic paint. I've got, well, obviously, a large table to work on because this is larger piece of wood. I've got various paint brushes that I'll use. I've got a water caddy. And you can also keep paper towels around because you get all the paint on here so if you spill, you can easily wipe it up and acrylic paints are water based. So, these are the supplies we're going to use and we will see in the next segment.

Abstract Painting Supplies

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