Do you know of a abstract painting that a beginner could paint besides different shapes. Something cool/pretty

Anything you put on a surface has a shape. Some shapes are distinct and some shapes are obscure. For ideas search German abstract paintings:





http://www.art-germany.com/abstractpaint...





I do abstract paintings. I enjoy exploring colors and relationships of shades and shapes. I sometimes take my 2D idea and turn into a sculpture. I am currently working on one.





Keep Arting!


Jeff (weseye) Wesley
Do you know of a abstract painting that a beginner could paint besides different shapes. Something cool/pretty
Flowers can be nice actually-because you can crop them in close and have fun dealing with shapes and shadows. Also rock formations or other natural shapes.
Do you know of a abstract painting that a beginner could paint besides different shapes. Something cool/pretty
you are approaching painting from the wrong end. abstraction is not something you do as a beginner because you think it is easy - after all, there are no pesky elbows, three-quarter portraits etc.





abstraction is something you paint when you have reached the heart of the matter, so to speak.





so do this exercise: draw a bowl of fruit, or flowers, about six or seven times. each time you draw it, approach it from a different perspective - light/shadow, volume, surface texture etc.





you will find that this exercise trains you to look at objects from a much different view point, and you will begin to see essential qualities of the objects that are masked by realism.





for example, look at this image: http://www.oldstilepress.com/Pagescreens...





you will see that the artist has gone beyond the heads of grain, the bark of trees, the shapes of bushes, to find something within these objects that is expressed and is expressive of an inner quality.





good luck