Simple Landscape: Abstract Painting Warm-up Exercise
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video, I’ll throw out to you an engaging abstract painting warm-up challenge with a simple landscape prompt. Get ready to unleash your creativity and explore the world of abstract art with me!
➡️50 Abstract Warm-Up Painting Prompts etsy.me/49utFsk
In this challenge, you will have 15 minutes to create a captivating painting using acrylic paint. To start, choose a color and its complementary color as your main palette. For my example, I've used Titanium white, Mars black, Phthalo green, Green yellow, and Light olive green as my acrylic paint colors.
To begin the exercise, grab your favorite tools such as markers, paintbrushes, pencils, charcoal, or pastels-anything you feel comfortable using to make marks on your surface. The goal here is to experiment with different textures and create interesting marks using your complementary color. Feel free to let your imagination run wild as you explore various techniques and approaches!
Once you've established a dynamic and engaging foundation with your complementary color marks, it's time to introduce the landscape prompt. Keep it simple, yet captivating. Consider elements like rolling hills, a serene beach, or a cozy cabin nestled among trees-let your creativity guide you.
Remember, this abstract painting exercise is all about expressing yourself and embracing the freedom of interpretation. Don't be afraid to push boundaries and explore new techniques during this challenge.
After explaining the guidelines, I will demonstrate my own interpretation of this art prompt. You'll see how I incorporate complementary color marks into my landscape composition using alcohol-based markers (amzn.to/3qPmeeb). Follow along, be inspired, and see how a simple exercise can yield exciting and unique results.
So, are you ready to take on this abstract painting challenge? Grab your favorite art supplies, set your timer for 15 minutes, and let's dive into the world of abstract landscapes together. Get those creative juices flowing, and let's create some magic on canvas, paper, wood panels, or whatever you have!
Don't forget to like this video, subscribe to my channel for more art challenges and tutorials, and share your experience in the comments below. Let's embrace the beauty of abstract painting and have a blast exploring our artistic potential!
Keep on painting!
Paints and tools used in this painting:
Phthalo green - amzn.to/3XefXop
Light olive green - amzn.to/42pjyBc
Green yellow - amzn.to/469J2Wg
Titanium white - amzn.to/3OUQDBH
Mars black - amzn.to/40RiV2v
Catalyst wedge W-01 - amzn.to/3p9T6xM
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To see more abstract paintings and art by Chris Loud check out / chrisloudart (@chrisloudart) on Instagram
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These prompts are SO great! There aren't very many artist who do this. And there aren't very many landscape artists. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much, Shauna! ❤️
Yes PLEASE MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS!! I love abstract landscape paintings
Will do. Thanks, Miss Polly!
Thank you Chris...Love landscape paintings...
Thanks, Grozda!
Really enjoying your timed challenges. The parameters sets you free to go with whatever emerges. Love it
Thanks, Bev! I have some more coming next week that should be fun. Well, at least I've had fun with them.😊
I like the abstract landscape!
Thanks, Allan!
Actually watched this demo twice in a row!😊
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Starting to create abstract landscape. Quite fun. Thank you!
Hey, Lucia! You're going to have a lot of fun with abstract landscapes!😊
I really love this one because it showed me I’m not the only one who blends with her hands! Also, I never thought to apply the paint on edges with my hands! I’ve always used a brush the way I was taught. I’m going to try the edges with fingers, it looks cool. Great job Chris, beautiful.
Thanks, Susie! I love blending paint with my hands. It's definitely messy, but gives a different look sometimes than using a brush. I'm also a little impatient and like to jump right in whether I have a brush in hand or not...haha.
Hi Chris - wow - what a result - I know we are not supposed to expect masterpieces, but I really loved the result here, and it resonates so much with what i want to do. So often I want to abstract landscape and end up with bad landscape! You made it look so simple, as always. Anyway, beautiful colours, and orientations 2 and 4 were my favs. Especially 2.
Hey Emmanuel! Thank you so much! I have done that as well, many times. It's easy to start abstractly and start adding details until you end up with a poor representational piece. At least that's the problem I run into now and then. 🤦♂️
@chrisloudart exactly my problem.
#1 and #3. All of them look great - as usual 😁
Thanks, Becky! Those are my favorites as well.😊
I liked this challenge. I used green, blue and charcoal. Might be my favorite of all my art journal works so far. It's super simple, I will post it on my Instagram later this week. Thanks for the challenge! Great idea.
Thanks, D W! I'm excited to see the outcome!😊
I love this!!!! I’ve been all one the place with my art but my main focus now is abstract and abstract landscape. Really enjoying your TH-cam 😊❤
Thanks so much, Nancy! So happy you're liking the videos 😊
I did one with a pallet knife and a pencil and it made a forest , everyone loves it !
I'm excited to see it!
I do representational landscape painting. I am looking forward to trying an abstract landscape.
I started out painting representational landscapes, but have really enjoyed playing with abstracts. I still paint representational on occasion.
I really enjoyed watching this video. The more I watch your videos the more im understanding and building up a bigger picture of how to approach abstract art.
I like how the red can still be seen peeking through, but not so much that it takes away focus.
I was interested to see the way you hold the pens further up, creating less precise marks.
I also really liked the point you made about the fact that you know what it represents, but it doesn't matter if the person looking at it does.
Thank you so much!❤️ I'm glad the videos are helping you build a better understanding of abstract art. I love that you noticed the subtle red and the technique with the pens-it’s all about finding what feels right for you. One of my favorite aspects of abstract art is the personal interpretation that each person has with each piece.
You make such BEAUTIFUL paintings!!❤️. So inspiring
Thank you so much! That's very kind of you to say. ❤️
I love those challange ! And i paint both...abstract landscape and sometimes realistic....and i love pigments in all form....but my realistc landscape are most of the time with watercolor ! In the morning wene i have time with a coffe and one or 2 of your videos... it relaxe me and inspired me for the day of creation witch i have to do every day....Even with a big day i nead it in my life ....sometimes its the last thing i will do before going to sleep .....have a beautiful day !
Thanks, Sophie! I just started working with watercolor landscapes and so far I'm really enjoying it. Your morning (and evening) painting sessions sound relaxing and lovely. It's amazing how painting can pull us out of our day to day and make us feel at ease.❤️
@@chrisloudart enjoy then that watercolor ! For me its à unik and spécial my relation with watercolor ! Wene i paint with watercolor i please myself so so mutch....its the magic front of our eyes that facscinated me or amaezed me ! The process its so différent then œil or acrylic witch i love to ! If you just syart just à notice if you can have good one for the total expérience ! 😉 ps. Sorry for my english im french canadien !
Your English is just fine. I can understand your meaning.😊❤️
Bonjour Chris ❤❤ c'est superbe ❤❤❤
Bonjour, Martine! Merci beaucoup ❤️
Love the colors. I am learning landscape painting, representational but am trying to learn a more abstract approach
Thanks, Denise! I find both to be so much fun to paint 😊
Love the painting, of course living in Tasmania, I wouldn't know the geography of where you are but it looked landscapish to me. I love doing representational landscapes streetscapes. However, I've been looking into non representational work to break out of my comfort zone, I think it's a good thing to do because it keeps your work fresh, also you start thinking differently I think, and experimenting, well it's fun. Yes please keep the exercises coming one day I'll get the knack of it. As always thank you for sharing. Cheers!
Thanks, Howling! I think you have an excellent way of looking at doing new things outside of your comfort zone. That's such a good way to develop new skills as well as enhance older ones.
@@chrisloudart thank you, I also just really love learning new things, especially with painting, I'm also enjoying oil pastels and attempting to do abstracts with them just on a small scale at the moment, it's a lot of fun and keeps the brains the new wonder head filler from going rusty.😁Cheers!
@@howlingwind1937 No one needs a rusty brain, that's for sure!
@@chrisloudart 😆😆😆😆
I learn from your 15 minute challenges and love seeing them regularly. As a hiker and nature lover landscape abstract is my preference. This was great!
Thanks so much, Laurie! We're of the same mindset when it comes to hiking, nature and landscapes.😊
This piece turned out to be a masterpiece - the colors are gorgeous! I've painted a few abstract landscapes some of which turned out better than expected.
Thank you so much, Peggy!
The colors are so seductive. What would YOU do to turn this from a “warm up” to a show-ready, piece of art? When you used the red marker, I thought this was going to be a mistake, but it really is enticing with that glorious Thalo green and light green.
Honestly, I wasn't so sure the red marker was going to work either, but thought it would be fun to try. It ended up working well with the background in my opinion. What would I do? Excellent question. My initial thought is to add a few bits of darker blue (maybe Prussian, or possibly Winsor to go with the phthalo green). I think that will provide it with more depth and contrast. This is actually one on my table to revisit this week.😊
Very inspiring, have been stuck lately, this is just what I needed. I do both representational and abstract landscapes. Working toward a tonalist approach at times. Your videos are always among my favorite because I find them so inspiring to get up and paint! Thanks Chris
Thanks, Kathy! I'd love to see some of your stuff. Do you post your paintings anywhere?
I do abstract painting and I so landscape and some people from behind love watching you work , how can I show you my work , Linda Bailey from Corpus Christi Texas I appreciate your work .
Thanks, Linda!
I want to see if I do it right , so how can I show you my work please how do I do it , on Instagram or what ?
My name is Linda Bailey from Corpus Christi Texas I watched you do one with a palette knife and s black pencil , I did the same thing and it looked like a forest of trees , everyone I showed it to loved it your such a good teacher of what you do , how c
Thank you so much, Linda! You can share it with me on Instagram @chrisloudart. 😊
Chris how can I let you see my work ?
Do you post any of your work on social media or a website?
What is a catylist wedge?
Hey Tracey! It's a silicone wedge shaped tool that helps you apply and manipulate paint on a surface. There are several different types. Here is the one I was using for reference - Catalyst wedge W-01 - amzn.to/3p9T6xM
Do you ever paint figurative abstracts?
Hey Katy! I do, but not as often as I used to. Would you like me to do some videos on figurative abstracts?
@@chrisloudart Yes, I would like that. I do primarily landscapes and love your videos on that but I’m also being drawn to the abstract videos. They don’t come as naturally to me.
Thanks for responding !
@@katykrebs9707 Thanks for the feedback, Katy!😊 I've added these to my list.
Wasn’t there supposed to be some red?
On this one, the red marker peeks through in several places from the initial red marks. I went very minimal with the red, but you can add as much red as you would like. 😊