Video: How to Squeegee 3rd Color of an Abstract Painting

Using the squeegee to carefully spread the second color of your abstract painting on wood; 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. Back to the favorite tool, people, squeegee on hand, paint and plops everywhere. So I just a plop to pick and squeeze it out and then I can just start filling this thing out. And if you kinda go fast, you can almost make it--it looks like it's just flying around this paint. It's pretty cool. Now you don't want to spread it as far as it will go 'cause in your start, it really get in the cover and the whole thing in black paint. And I'm trying to show this white and red so we're just going to come in here and if you have one that has a pretty good amount of texture on that you like, you don't have to totally flatten it out. So there's a huge glob right there but it's kinda--it's crawled up so if I leave that alone, it will dry like that, same with here to like this wall of paint. So I'm going to leave those alone but I have excess black on my squeegee so I want to use that. I don't always use everything that's on the squeegee but I'm going to come in here, get rid of some of that excess and see there's excess paint here, and I don't necessarily like the texture of that so I can go the opposite direction if I want. Come in here and then now, with the squeegee I can come in and then do some finer texture stuff here. There's a lot you can do with this. This even has brazed edges, you kinda press them into an area of it such as this and get different textures. So just be careful of your hands once you do that and then I'll come in here and cross hatch and the more I do this, the more I play with the paint, the more interesting shapes I get. And that is squeegeeing three.

How to Squeegee 3rd Color of an Abstract Painting

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