The Beauty of Minimal Abstract Art
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ม.ค. 2025
- Dancing with white space and minimal marks in abstract paintings. You know that feeling when you want to do more brushstrokes. What if you just stopped? Sometimes the most powerful statement comes from the confidence of knowing you can stop and let the existing marks and white space speak.
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LOVE IT THANK YOU FOR SHARING
Thank you very much Goyo! I appreciate you taking the time to tell me🎨❤
Dynamic Dances! Beautiful~!! The ones on the black are Oo La La!! Pretty cool how the frames can bring out several great areas on a big piece! Thanks Lynette!! 😊
Hello Gailie!! I am thrilled with your response. Oh yes, those ones on black 🙌 Maybe because I am used to doing things on white or lighter backgrounds, when I switch to dark to paint the dance it seems more bold and inspiring for new 'steps'. Cropping is so much fun to find the gems in the painting. I also use it to see compositions for new paintings. Take care!
I loved your paintings.I want to give it a try. Thanks
Bernice, thank you so much for letting me know. That makes me smile and thrilled to hear that you are going to give it a try. 🎨❤
Thank you, Lynette. You are a good teacher!
Awww, Thank you very much Connie. That is so lovely of you to say! 🤗❤️
Great vid, this type of art has a massive appeal for me. I love just splashing Sumi ink around in various ways. The Japanese artist Toko Shinoda takes perfect minimalism to a whole new level,after decades of study, you might like the work if you haven’t come across it before.
Thanks so much Katherine, I am happy to hear that. Oh I agree, the quality of lines and compositions of Toko Shinoda are just exquisite. 🎨❤
wonderful
Thank you so much Mala! I appreciate you taking the time to comment! 🎨❤
Love the simplicity of these pieces. Do you use any fixative for pieces you frame?
Thank you Joanne. I don't generally use fixatives if I am using acrylics. If I add some charcoal, pastel or pencil strokes on top, then I may do a light spray. Let me know if you have other questions. Cheers. 🎨
Such cool marks. Love the way it creates art. What paper are you using?
Thank you Carolyn! I appreciate your compliment. The paper I used is 32lb bond paper. The paper will wrinkle depending upon the amount of paint, so I spritz it lightly on the back, wipe off excess and put between paper with books on top to flatten it. 🎨❤
Great art lesson! Less really is more.. And you just made those marks without thinking about them, right?
Acrylic paint? Going to do this tomorrow, Thanks!
Thank you very much Sara. And to answer your questions... yes and yes ;) Intuitive marks with what I feel at the moment with acrylic paint. It is so great that you are going to do this tomorrow!! If you want to, let me know how it goes 🎨🙌❤
Lynette, I have been messing around with art now for several years, one thing I love is I keep continuing to see new things or see things more clearly, and this exercise helped me see how important the negative spaces are to the compositon ,for some reason, think the black and white helped me see it, thanks again!
@@sarawest9686 Hi Sara, many thanks for telling me. It is so true that we can see things one way for so long and then something clicks from a slightly different perspective. And color is so personal with how we react to it because we love or don't love certain colours and it distracts the mind. When color is removed, then we start dealing with shapes, values, edges. Keep 'messing' around... that is the fun part. 💃🎨Cheers.
Have you tried a large sumi e brush? It seems to me the flat brush is too limiting
Jack, you are so right that it can be limiting. I do use a large brush in this "shorts" th-cam.com/users/shortsAupanHOVpxE?si=EEkBKPUtk9StlpER
If you cannot click this link, the TH-cam Shorts is titled "Painting in progress with the next white...". Is this a brush option of which you may be thinking? I don't think it is called a sumi brush, it is handmade and I do love to use it. 🎨
@ Yes Lynette, I think that brush in the video produces more “energy” and more visual interest than the flat brush.
@@jackgreene5868 Thanks Jack. I am going to do a longer video using that brush. Enjoy your day.
Lynette I am so excited about this type of painting. I went to Michael’s and bought Strathmore Bristol 20 sheets - 11 x 14 inch 100 lbs (270 g/m). Will this paper be good for this? What paint brand do you use, what is your recipe, when you put it in a mat do you take pictures to use sections, get prints to sell, and do you do all this or do you have a printing company that works with you. Sorry so many questions, but I love this.
Hi Carolyn, I don't mind your questions. I love your enthusiasm!! Yes your paper will be great. There are so many paper options and you can continue to experiment. One thing that helped me is to keep at least one of the paintings and write on the back what paper it is because, for me, I can forget which one I used since I try a lot of papers. Paint brand is wide open. I use the high end brands like Golden, and I also use student grades, it depends upon what I want to do. Your question about recipe, may refer to the fluidness of the paint I was using. If so, I use acrylic paper, thin it with water and also a medium so it doesn't separate. I don't have a specific recipe as I just do it by eye in how the paint flows. For some applications it can be like soft yogurt and others are more like soup. One thing, and you probably know, is if you use too much water for the acrylic paint it will break and you have 'stretched' it too far. If that happens, I add more paint or I may use it for collage or mixed media. Next question, Yes I do take photos of the compositions that I like if I don't cut them. Next question, yes I sell prints. I use a local printer so I check the quality of the print. In the future I may use on demand, but I would have to check the quality first. I was a graphic designer for over twenty years so I am quite particular about that 😉 I think that is all your questions. If you have more I am happy to answer them. And your questions also help me because I am creating my next workshop and I love to know what people are curious about with their creativity. And --- if you have anything they you especially like to see or want to see in a workshop or course, please let me know. I look forward to the next time we chat. 🤗
@ you are wonderful to take the time to answer my questions. Have a wonderful weekend. Bless you.
@@mywifetheartist My pleasure. I love chatting with people as enthusiastic about creativity as I am. Happy weekend.
@@lynettemelnyktoday I ordered Golden high flow acrylic carbon black. Do you use that color and do you mix it with anything? Definitely not a cheap brand of paint. 😊
@@mywifetheartist Ooooh, so fun to order Golden high flow acrylic! (definitely not cheap is right!) I don't use that particular color. A little of it goes a long way because it is concentrated. Depending on how you are using it, try adding some medium and/or water to extend the carbon black so you don't go through it as fast.
Volume in the beginning is too low. Can you use a microphone pls?🥰😍
Helen, thank you kindly for letting me know! I have been looking at microphones so you have sped up my decision to get one 😉🙌 Enjoy you day 🎨❤