Creating Abstract Art: Determining Essence of Subject
Creating Abstract Art: Enlarging a Portion of a Painting
Creating Abstract Art: Positive & Negative Space
Creating Abstract Art: Stretching a Subject
Creating Abstract Art: Squeezing a Subject
Creating Abstract Art: Expressing Motion
Creating Abstract Art: Isolating Shapes
Creating Abstract Art: Experimenting With Shapes
Creating Abstract Art: Trying Out Ideas
Creating Abstract Art: Deconstructing a Design
Creating Abstract Art: Tracing & Combining Shapes
Creating Abstract Art: Geometrical Forms
Creating Abstract Art: Abstractions From Nature
Creating Abstract Art: Designing Patterns
Creating Abstract Art: Repeating Patterns
Creating Abstract Art: Experimenting With Pigments
Creating Abstract Art: Watercolor Shapes
Creating Abstract Art: Extrapolating a Design From Scribbles
Creating Abstract Art: Free-Flowing Design
Creating Abstract Art: Cutting Apart Prints
Creating Abstract Art: Collage of Shapes
Creating Abstract Art: Spontaneous Ideas
Creating Abstract Art: Building Ideas From Painting Strokes
Summary: Matisse and other famous abstract artists tried out compositions with scraps of paper. Have fun making an abstract painting using the techniques in this free art lesson from an art instructor.
Gretchen Kibbe is an artist and part-time faculty member at Appalachian State University. She worked as a scenic artist on the Spike Lee movie School Daze.read more
"I am starting to just say; "Well you know I have these what can I do with this as a picture?" So, you know you just keep going, this way I am going to sort of keep my idea of what might be happening and where you can go from there. Here I have my piece of paper and I started with this and kept them in position. So, I have got a piece of paper, this is and interesting composition, you always go back to that. What is the composition doing for me? And, all of a sudden I have parts of the ribcage are still there. But, now I am really abstracting it. Now I am starting to go somewhere else. You found your visual material in the bones, in the ribcage structure and then you start working with it."
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