Video: Creating Abstract Art: Geometrical Forms

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Abstract shapes are often the central design motifs of abstract paintings. Work with different shapes when making an abstract painting using the techniques in this free art lesson from an art instructor.

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And I thought about this as a blade and then I said well you know if you have just that what happens. So I thought well you know do I want to put in or play around with more blades and maybe think about the idea that going back to this that you've got two blades that are kind of connected somehow. So playing with the idea of multiple blades and this gives me a more sort of linear sort of geometrical forms that then might start to work around the geometry of the ball of the femur but then what am I going to do with these more irregular shapes here and how am I going to work those in and so I'm thinking curves, these are about curves. I could straighten them up and make them more even and that is when I put in this curve. I was responding to these curves here and trying to counteract this motion here by putting a curve in here. So that's how I would go about starting to respond to a little portion and then pulling it into something else. I don't know you might even start looking at it, maybe it works this way, you know what happens this way. Is the energy better this way? Maybe I'm going to take something out you know, maybe I'm going to change something. Maybe this is going to be the bottom and maybe I want this to be larger now and maybe going behind this so I can emphasize that and start changing the shapes and maybe this is one kind of system to work in a nonobjective way but you're starting with a solid object in real life that might also give you ideas about where to take your abstraction.

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Creating Abstract Art: Geometrical Forms

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