Exploring Composition in Abstract Art
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2024
- I think about composition a little differently than what you might experience in classic academic environments. In this video I discuss my approach using a new painting that's in development. Let me know if you find this helpful and how, and if you use similar or other compositional checkpoints in your work. Thanks for watching! #composition. #abstractart #paintingprocess
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Best discussion of composition I have heard. Clear and insightful. Love the idea of host and guest shifting back and forth. An expert thought process distilled for the rest of us. Thanks
thanks so much for your wonderful comments! So glad to know that my "brand" of thinking about composition is well received... cheers to your artistic practice!
This is the most valuable discussion of composition in abstract art I have encountered. Thank you!
Thanks so much for saying so! Glad you are "here" 😊
So glad you included the last checkpoint!! Thanks for another great tutorial 👍
Yes it's the most important one! Thanks Carrie...
So very helpful. So well presented. Thanks. I'll be watching this again.
Thank so much! Your comments are so appreciated 🙏😊
Thank you for turning up the volume. Your videos are good.
Thanks! Sound is still a mystery as to why it wasn't good before... glad you can hear me more effectively!
I am going through the process of rewatching all your videos and at the same time doing oil pastel sketches “a la” your course. It’s complicated for me and takes practice but slowly I am changing. I know just by glancing…. Then really looking whether things are working or not. I now know that I never have an idea or a concept. It’s just not me. BUT I do have strong feelings which are not attached to words because the feelings are layered. I think this is how I understand my art. I have always felt inadequate because I don’t have ideas or concepts. That is why I am going through all the videos again. I am trying to understand what’s going on for me and that I have no plan except a colour and then that leads me to keep moving. Thank you.
Hi Cara, It's wonderful to know that the content I put out into the world is valuable to your learning process and offers validation for the way you make art. My best paintings come from beginning with no plan, no concept or idea, just my inner voice guiding me without words. And this helps me to "feel" the colors I start with. Cheers to the way YOU make art!
Thanks very much! The best explanation of composition I have ever heard.
You are so welcome! Thanks for your kind words and interest in the WAM YT channel!
Thank you Marianne for that insightful discussion on composition. Although I am a watercolor painter, I find your site to be of deep value, especially when you discuss something as basic and necessary as good composition. It is vital to create an ideal composition no matter your particular artistic field because without this your work will never be as good as you hoped. It is the most essential and important single factor in creating good art.
Like you I have come up with a checklist for my artwork which I use before I start a final version of a painting. Of course, watercolor requires a lot more thought in advance due to the nature of saving the whites of the paper. I use this checklist along the way while developing the art and find it is essential. There are so many factors to assist in good composition it is difficult to keep all in my head and so the list helps, especially if you have taken a hiatus from painting for whatever reason.
I ordered your list from your website and look forward to finding some elements that I have yet to consider.
Thanks again for your thoughtful approach!!
SARA
PS: I also loved your squishy oilbar episode, and all that raw color that so instantly went down on the paper!
Thanks so much Sara for sharing your appreciation for this video, and for chiming in about the importance of composition! I love your analysis of how to approach composition with watercolor given the nature of the medium. I worked in watercolor for about 8 years in the 1980's. I was using a totally different method I think than yours, a combination of planning and surprise. Anyway, wishing you all the best with your artistic practice!
Wonderful explanation, Marianne! Will come in very handy, I'm sure. Thank you
Glad you've found this helpful. Cheers to your artistic practice!
Thank you Marianne. The checkpoints are very useful as a means to know if a painting is finished. But I don't understand the host/guest metaphor as it applies to the work.
Very insightful…thanks, Marianne, looking forward to the March lessons at Wayne Art Center
Thanks so much! I'm looking forward to having you in in the workshop!
This is so helpful! Thank you 😊
So glad! Thanks for saying so, Maria ☺🙏