I now have four or five canvases going, but these are the three I'm most happy with. I continued to add colored onto the painting pictured on the left. I used a large palette knife which I've enjoyed a lot more than brushes because of the abstract mark making I can create with it. I think I am going to bring the green to the top again and then add smaller brush strokes to tie the whole pieces together. Pictured in the middle is the second layer on a canvas I started a little bit ago, and I used the same process I used on the green one to create this kind of abstract shape as my base. I really like this process and I feel like it creates an aesthetically pleasing piece. The third canvas is a baby sized canvas that I decided to do a similar process on but I started with a wet brush and didn't use a palette knife. It didn't turn out as different as I wanted it to but all of these are practice with the style and works in progress, however I think they're an improvement from my last piece. I have some other canvases going that I'm not huge fans of (more specifically a large gray and yellow one that I might start over because I don't like the way the brush strokes blended and made a flat surface) so I've been focusing on these ones. I know its not as many pieces as I was hoping to get done, but with everything that has been going on lately I feel like I'm at a safe pace.
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I set up the background of my piece, and decided I'm going to focus on building foreground on this piece. I took inspiration from my last AbEx piece and used similar colors, and I'm using the piece on the left as inspiration. I'm not super excited about this piece but I'm hoping its successful
I'm going kind of back and forth. I want to add more linear elements but I want to keep the strong foreground of the piece. I think im gonna add the dark purple I have digitally drawn on top (picture on the right) and then go back over with white to create and calmer foreground. I like how the carvings peek through though and I'm looking forward to experimenting more with an art style like this.
I decided to re-do the lines again and I feel better about where this piece is going but I still don't like the simplicity and cleanliness of it. I want it to be more messy and hectic but this has been a fun experiment with a slight change of style.
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Julianne
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