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Many Abstract Painting Techniques to Choose From

It feels slightly awkward to try to explain how to create an abstract painting. The little voice inside my head sneers, “Isn’t it obvious? You just go crazy all over a blank piece of paper or empty canvas.” But that’s not the answer that satisfies the art student in me, or not the only answer. Abstract art is created so many different ways, with different levels of attention paid to color, precision application, gesture and recognizable or unrecognizable forms. Every one of these ideas gives you insight into the abstract painting techniques you could employ. And every one leads an artist down a different path.

4 Abstract Painting Techniques :

Color

It will always be my first love and my first way of experiencing a painting, abstract or not. If you want to explore abstract painting techniques as a colorist, think on:

• Color symbology. With color comes color association and history. These vary by culture and by era, but there is a story behind every color if you are willing to put in the time to explore them.
• Think of a word, think of a color. What color is sublime? Is there a color for fear? What color is family? Whatever your subject matter, it has a color story waiting to come out.
• What does the color wheel tell you about analogous, complementary, and contrasting colors? Learn these and then see what you want to go along with and what rules you want to break.
• Just feel. Color is the most beautiful characteristics of art. Don’t be afraid of it. Embrace it. It is a language you know how to speak fluently.

Mark-making and Type of Gesture

Flinging paint, pouring ink, rubbing dust–there are so many ways to put down your mark as an artist. Get lost in the different kinds of mark you can make, then marry mark with meaning. That will be when you start to understand how you can tell your own story through abstraction.

Level of representation

Abstract art can be fully abstracted, but does not have to be. Many artists find merging abstraction and representation allows full expression. Other artists like Jackson Pollock wanted to take nothing from reality — that’s where the term non-objective comes from. It is all about visual stimulation.

Level of geometry

Using geometric forms can often lead to reckonings surrounding control and process. There are artists who crave precision and detail and those don’t care at all and then those who reduce one but not the other. With geometric forms, be mindful that they can be exacting task-masters.