5 Easy Ways to Create Abstract Painting for Your Home Decor

April 28, 2011 by: Rose Iadsai

It is not easy for typical people to understand abstract art because of its plain mixture of colors and lines which have no interesting image or photo incorporate into it. Some may also think that it is very easy to create this type of painting, therefore they have no interest to look deeply into its real meaning which only the art lover can understand and realize its inner beauty.

How one can understand the inner beauty of abstract painting?

You can enjoy the essence of abstract art; you will need to take a closer look into its color sensation, patterns, lines and shapes. Try to widen your outlook by learning the painting beforehand. The study about the artist who paints it will also give you wider perspective. Put in mind that art is limitless, so you should not limit your outlook into just one point of view.

How the artists create abstract paintings?

Abstract art is the art that have no recognizable subject. It is a non-representational or non-objective art. Abstract artists create abstract paintings from their emotion, feeling inside their own body, sound or spiritual experience using their most favorite painting mediums such as oil or acrylic on the surfaces like canvas or paper to depict what they see in their imagination via the use of color, form, proportions, space navigation and composition.

Here are some of the abstract painting techniques that will allow every aspiring artist to come up with an abstract painting that they will certainly be proud of:

1. Drip Painting Technique – Simply drip the paint off from your paint brush or directly from paint container onto painting surface such as canvas, then use the world gravity guide your paint to your desired direction.

2. Splatter Painting – This abstract painting technique is not much different with Drip Painting but instead of letting the paint right out of its container ooze its way to create art, with splatter painting, the artist can blow paint from straws or use toothbrushes to create various and outstanding effects.

3. Mixed Mediums – With this technique artist will use oil paints together with other mediums to form the art. Textiles strips and small piece of papers are arranged and glued on the canvas the way the artist want it to portray.

4. Geometric Design – Abstract artists use sharp geometric lines to portray their abstract art depicting their personal tension and drama.

5. Paint Free Form – This is the type of abstract painting that can easily lead to total abstraction as the artist freely chooses a color and adds it on the canvas by doodling resulting to an art that projects ones thoughts during the process.

Abstract paintings provide an artist with endless variety, and it certainly is one of the best ways for the artist to effectively express one’s self thru the use of different techniques and by simply letting the imagination prevail.

Rose Iadsai the founder of Samui Art Gallery, the genuine handmade oil paintings gallery Thailand. Offering special discount prices Buddha paintings, Pop Art, Abstract Art and much more. She is also offering tips and techniques to create, sale and buy abstract paintings online.

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