Abstract Painting

Abstract Painting

I kind of laid off of art for a couple weeks since I had done a lot of pieces the last couple of weeks. When I came back to it I decided to start doing some abstract pieces like the one below. This time I decided to use a wood board canvas instead of a traditional canvas. I started by staining the wood board yellow by thinning out yellow acrylic paint with lots of water. After that dried I used acrylic modeling paste and made some shapes and figures out of it. After that dried (about a day later) I thinned out a decent amount of purple paint with water and pored it along the top of the canvas. I then stood the canvas upright and let it seep down. After that dried I flipped the canvas and did the same thing with green paint on the other side. At this point I was running out of ideas so I did the same thing with blue paint in the middle except I constantly rotated the canvas so it could drip both ways. After that dried I poured small puddles of black ink and used a straw to blow it around the canvas. I did this about five or six times. After that dried I used different sized chisels to carve out parts of the wood board. I then used a finer tipped chisel to make small carvings within the black ink. This is intended to be a mixed media piece but I went very abstract with it. I enjoyed doing it and how relaxed it was.