5 Abstract Painting Prompts to Reinvigorate Daily Warm-Ups |
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- In this video, I go over five abstract painting prompts that can help reinvigorate your daily warm-ups and inspire ideas for future paintings. First, I dive into the lush theme of the first art prompt "Rainforest Canopy" as a part of an intuitive abstract painting session. I share with you not just the guidelines, but also a demo where I tackle this art challenge head-on, with acrylic paints and the spirit of exploration.
Why are daily warm-up paintings so beneficial? Primarily they're about playful experimentation before the "serious" art - a chance to ask "What if?" and to just have fun. It's not about creating a masterpiece every time; it's about letting loose, sharpening skills, and maybe even stumbling upon new techniques and painting ideas that could inspire future artwork.
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In this casual and totally informal session, I’ll show you how I reinvigorate my practice with abstract painting prompts. We'll play with different textures, the color pairings I’m working with, and see what happens when we let intuition guide our brushstrokes.
By the end of the video, after you've seen how I approach the "Rainforest Canopy" with acrylic painting, you'll have four more specific prompts to spark your artistic fire. Each art exercise is designed to help you loosen up and enjoy the mindfulness that comes with intuitive abstract painting. And remember, it's okay to let go of the ones that don’t pan out; celebrate the wins, learn from the rest, and keep on creating.
So, grab your paints, and let's reinvigorate our practice together. The goal here is to rekindle that joy in creation, to embrace the art exercises as a way to warm up, and to transform the blank surface into something that's uniquely yours. Let's get those creative juices flowing with these intuitive painting prompts and make our daily warm-up paintings something to look forward to.
And remember, keep on painting!
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The 5 Prompts in this video are:
🟢Rainforest Canopy
TIME LIMIT: 20 minutes
PAINT COLORS: Emerald green, Cadmium Yellow, Burnt Umber, & Artist’s Choice of 1 color (Optional: Mars Black, Titanium White)
GOAL: Create an engaging intuitive abstract painting with the essence of dense leafy textures.
🟢Storm's Wrath
TIME LIMIT: 20 minutes
PAINT COLORS: Payne’s Grey, Titanium White, and Ultramarine Blue. (Optional: Mars Black)
GOAL: The idea is to create an engaging abstract painting with the effect of swirling winds.
🟢Musical Movement
TIME LIMIT: 15 minutes
PAINT COLORS: Cadmium Orange, Payne's Gray, Titanium White (Optional: Mars Black, Titanium White)
GOAL: Listen to a piece of music that stirs you and translate the rhythms, melodies, and emotions into a visual expression.
🟢Emotion Ocean
TIME LIMIT: 20 minutes
PAINT COLORS: Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White (Optional: Mars Black)
GOAL: Let your current emotions guide your brushstrokes, creating an abstract seascape that reflects your inner state.
🟢Dynamic Diagonals
TIME LIMIT: 15 minutes
PAINT COLORS: Artist’s Choice-pick 2-3 colors (Optional: Mars Black, Titanium White)
GOAL: Use diagonal lines to infuse your painting with a sense of action and dynamic energy, allowing the lines to intersect and create movement. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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I like it!!!
Thanks, Frank!
Downloaded your 50 prompts PDF. Having fun working through them. Great tips, thanks!
Thanks, Seahorse! So glad you are enjoying them!😊
WoW I love this
Thanks so much, Guigui!
The prompts are great! I got the whole bunch from etsy and there are many ways I will use them. Certainly as warm ups or just every now and then, I will also do them with my sister who always wanted to do something with colours, but did not yet dare to do so + I will give it a try with my grandchildren. Thank you so much for this idea, Chris
Thank you, Margret! I think you have wonderful ideas for using these prompts. Whatever it takes to get us all creating-especially in new ways. I love that you are including your sister and grandchildren! Cheers! ❤️
I love this!!
Thanks so much, Maria!
How blessed am I to have come across your work. Thank you! I’m excited to jump into this concept.
Thanks so much, Debbie! I'm glad you're here as well. Let me know how it goes 😊
This would definitely be a good exercise for me because it’s hard for me to think conceptually. I tend to be literal, like rain forest…I need leaves, tree trunks, monkeys! lol.
Hey Lisa! 😂 You're not alone-I did the same thing at first. I had to push myself to think about the shapes, colors, textures and patterns instead of specifics. It's kind of freeing once you do it.😊
Thank you as always Chris for your inspiration!
Hey Susie! Thanks for watching!
Great video joy yo watch. More promot YES PLEASE. I love how you give us the key, and we unlock the room. Using the tools suggested we bring yo life our abstract. Each stroke breathes life into our piece, the story pours onto the paper using colour for words. Many thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you, Wendy! I appreciate your kind words and such a poetic response❤️
Ha... I loved this, and the idea behind the prompt. Going to do some... But i totally fell in love around 4'20... before you used white. That's where the deep greens ruled. Thanks for this, Chris. Always a joy😊
Thanks, Emmanuel! You know, when you're in the painting it's sometimes easy to miss moments like 4:20 and the direction it might take you in. That's exactly what happened. I look at it now and really like it, but at the time it was something else in progress. With that said, I didn't at first, but I really like how this ended up.😊
Love it ❤ thank you for the inspiration. Hope you will show us your results of the other 4 prompts 😊 I will do the music one in a few mins
Thanks so much, Kelly! These were all new prompts so this is the only one I've tried so far. I'll be playing with the music one and the diagonal one this weekend. Let me know how the music one goes for you, that's the prompt I'm most excited about.❤️🎵
For the longest i thought you were saying bull scraper. Lol.
Bowl scraper.
Nice exercise, by the way!
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Can you explain the point of using the cardboard frame?
Thanks Tee! Haha, I guess I need to work on my pronunciation. I use the white mat to look at the painting without the noise of the tape and any paint/marks that are on it. I tend to mat the better paintings on paper and this helps me see what they might look like at different stages.
Bonjour Chris 😊😊😊cest superbe, des couleurs printanières, j'aime beaucoup ❤❤❤
Bonjour Martine! Merci beaucoup ❤️
Really like this one, Chris. Thank you again for great ideas and inspiring demos.
Thank you, Ann!
Hi Chris I love your prompts and suggestions for paintings and the time limit really helps with creativity and stops the over thinking! I always find your videos inspirational Many Thanks!
Hey Joy! Thank you so much 😊 Right back at you-I'm really enjoying your videos and find them inspirational as well.
I was on the fence with this one, but then you scratched in leaf type shapes, when you put the Matt board frame over it, the painting was lovely, fresh and lively. Cheers!
Thanks, Howling! I was right there with you-started to chalk this up "one of those that didn't work out". Then I reminded myself that this is just the "ugly" stage and to keep going. How are things in Tasmania? We're getting snow in Colorado today. It's beautiful! Cheers!
@@chrisloudart yes paintings no matter what medium you use, always goes through an ugly stage before it comes good. Weather here is nice today warm but not oppressively hot or humid. We've had a rather wet summer this year good in a number of ways, it's too wet for bush fires although one still shouldn't get complacent as it can still happen. And our water tank is full to over flowing, we're lucky that way, living up in the hills, the rain hits us before it goes on down to the pastures and town. We're getting more fickle weather as we're transitioning out of summer and going into autumn. Autumn even though changeable like spring is, it's very nice weather, and the changing leaf colours are quite stunning in places. But I am pleased that there hasn't been any real bad bush fires, there was one on the east coast of Tassy, but the fire fighters got it under control pretty quickly. In summer I always keep a washing basket ready with clothes and other things that maybe important, so that all I have to do is grab it and the fur kids and go. Living high up in the bush that's just what you have to do, we're in the red zone, so the fire fighters won't come here to try and save our home as there's only one road in and the same one out, and I would expect anyone to risk their lives to save my home. My summer/autumn, ends sooner than down in the town, come the end of April it the start of the wet weather, and the sun doesn't come over the tree line, luckily it stays light enough for our solar panels to be able to get enough energy to run the lights. It also means a shorter growing season for vegis etc. We charge the batteries up every couple of days with the generator, and we have wood and gas heating and cooking, although winter time I put my stew pot in the wood heater and it cooks slowly through out the day and is tasty come dinner time. Our family of wallabies stuck closer to the house too, they know they can get a feed here, I've been learning how to use the video in my phone so as practise I've got a few videos of the wallabies on TH-cam, it was fun learning something new and different, I doubt it'll attract any interest. Well, I look forward to your next video which I thank you for them, there's still a few older ones I haven't seen yet though. Cheers from Tasmania!
@howlingwind I'm glad it has stayed wet enough to keep the fire danger low. Our fire season begins in May and then ramps up June-September. It sounds like you have to be more prepared to get out quickly where you are situated. With that said, the up side of being in the area you describe is being ensconced in the beauty and serenity of nature. I've watched your videos and find them mesmerizing. I am a big animal lover, so seeing wallabies, which obviously we don't have here, is a treat for me. I think you should continue making videos, at least if you find it fun to do. I started making painting videos for fun and that hasn't stopped. I'm thrilled that you and others enjoy them because I have so much fun creating them. Cheers from Colorado!
@@chrisloudart yeah, I like to be as prepared as I can, of course there's still things that might get forgotten, but that will get dealt with if necessary. Yes it's beautiful here, the other down side is that algae and moss grows on everything in the winter so I spend the summer trying to wash it off with the pressure hose and because I chose not to use poisons, the spiders have taken up residence on the windows! Which is ok for the native wasp who collects the spiders by paralysing them and stuffing them into its mud nest for its babies, problem is the best is between the architrave of the door and the side of the door, so everytime the door is opened or closed its destroyed😀 They don't sting, except spiders, but you'd think it would make a better life decision as far as housing goes. Oh wow! I didn't know you looked at my videos, thank you! I actually looked at them the other day and was surprised to see that I had 2 subscribers and 77 looks!!😀😀 I couldn't put any more on TH-cam for a while after I did a software update on my phone there was no up loading available for some reason. Well I do the videos because it's a bit of fun it's not a money spinner, there's quite a few young ones at the moment most of the older ones that allowed me to pet them have crossed over the rainbow road. Here I am again blethering on I'll go put something tasty out for the raven and the wallabies. Cheers from Tasmania!
It sounds like you live in a place where you are surrounded by all sorts of critters. I used to live in Virginia and we had similar wasps that I would watch drag spiders to there hole in the ground. I think you should keep making videos especially of the animals and insects you have around your home. Many people would find that really interesting. You could focus on day to day activities and your surroundings (including animals). What you describe to me is so foreign compared to where I live. I would love to hear you talk about the algae and moss and show you spraying it off. If you just look at what you've written to me, you have a bunch of little videos-wallabies, spiders, moss, solar panels, the terrain around you. Here is your goal: make a short video (5-10 minutes showing and discussing something you've written to me about). Make it conversational like your just telling a friend about something in your life. Cheers!
It was amazing to watch what you can do with those itens (brayer, etc) in 20 minutes. The final result is very interesting. This is something it is worth to try. Thanks 😊
Thanks, Susana! Let me know if you give this one a try😊
5'05 was alsoa highlight moment, after scratching 😊
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Final was great too😊
Thank you! Let me know how it goes if you give these a try.
Great to watch and very helpful
Hey Carola! Thank you😊
🖌️🎨Good morning! I was watching you at the beginning thinking WHAT is he doing....then as I watched thought 🤔🤔🤔Oh! That's really cool!Lol I am sure if people watched me they would think the same thing! This is really pretty! Thank you for sharing! 🌴
Good morning! Thank you so much! Haha, at one point early on I was also thinking "What am I doing?". 😂 There was a bit of trial and error before I found my footing on this one. Just had to get past that "ugly" stage and make something work. I guess that's the whole point of these exercises. Have a great day!
I cannot find the description with links.
Hey Patricia! Were you able to find the links? If not, I can put them in the comments.🙂
@@chrisloudart please do. For some reason I am not able to get them. 🙏
Here you go.
-ABSTRACT PAINTING TOOL LINKS-
➡️ 50 Abstract Warm-Up Painting Prompts - www.etsy.com/listing/1661544174/50-abstract-warm-up-painting-prompts-art
➡️ Silicone painting brushes (Color shapers) amzn.to/3oMpd6w
➡️ Silver Mop White Oval Brush - amzn.to/3Hjo9Ni
➡️ Silicone Bowl Scraper - amzn.to/3I1UrMP
➡️ Pentel S20P Pointliner - amzn.to/48s1NUZ
➡️ Canson Fluid Mixed Media Sketchbook 250 gsm - amzn.to/3EN3jod
➡️Find me on Instagram: instagram.com/chrisloudart/
Saw no point in drawing ahead of time just to cover it all up
Hey Karla! Unfortunately, you can't see in the video but there are some pen marks peeking through on the left and the bottom of the painting. The reason I throw down some marks early on is because some might show through at the end adding possible visual texture, depth and character to the background. But yes, sometimes it all gets covered up.😊
Some people have blank canvas syndrome. Like if I see it blank I have a fear to start. I always start with a pencil and create marks. It gives me the freedom to start, let loose and go with the flow. It is important to me. To your question , it depends on each individual. Cheers !!!