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Plz suggest me some tips like : what type of paints I should use, what I'll use to draw pencil or charcoal. Should I make it multicolor or uni/bi-color?

Also a point, I had made two or three abstract paints b4, but everybody told those were all meaningless. This discouraged me a lot !

2006-10-13 00:36:54 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Visual Arts Painting

9 answers

Sheet of paper or canvas, use anything with which u're familiar.If you use paper, then the kind of paper you need depends on the medium you use.

For starters I recommend acrylic paint. It dries quickly so you can overpaint your creation many times during one session. Using oil paint can get messy because it won't dry at all during one session and the beginner will end up mixing all paint he/she has into a grey-brown abstract art blur.

For paint, get yourself the cheapest acrylic paint you can find because we're assuming you're only trying to amuse yourself at this point and with cheap paint you can splash it around freely and fun and freedom are king in abstract art.

[Don't listen to them who don't take interest in Arts. If I say, I like programming language & show u an important program-code, u may get it meaningless too. Isn't it? Those persons who find ur paintings meaningless, I'm sure if they'll see Van Gogh's "Murberry tree", Pablo Picasso's "Cubes", Mondrian's "Red tree" -- they'll get those meningless also. Just concentrate on ur interest 'n translate ur feelings, expressions through strokes on canvas].

2006-10-13 02:41:21 · answer #1 · answered by Innocence Redefined 5 · 1 0

All art, including abstract, encompasses the basic design elements such as balance, movement, harmony/contrast, as well as refined technique. If there is no focal point, no containment of movement within the frame, and no balance, the art will not evoke an emotional response. And that's what art does - it moves you.

Every acclaimed abstract artist has a background in classical art. This is how we learn the fundamentals.

Once you understand the basic fundamentals and how to use them in your art, it doesn't matter what medium you use - it could be the best oil paint on the market, or plasticine and rocks - good art is all about what you want to say and how you achieve that goal.

Have fun and never stop learning.

2006-10-13 03:20:09 · answer #2 · answered by joyfulpaints 6 · 0 0

I've heard of fecal matter getting bronzed...the thing was considered abstract, critics came up with all kinds of intellectual sounding meanings, AND it sold. It's all about opinion. Just come up with some psuedo-intellectual babble to describe your painting-that's the important part in abstract painting. Until you become semi-well-known, you'll have to TELL people what your painting means and that they are supposed to like it due to it's being a 'great work of art'. That works on art professors and critics every time.

2006-10-13 04:33:46 · answer #3 · answered by MigukInUJB 3 · 0 0

First off, art can exist for its own sake. Secondly, as for what to paint, what to use etc..I'd tell you to go to the local bookseller and look at the magazine, Modern Paintings and the quarterly, American Painters. They'll give you a good visual vocabulary to start with.

You have probably already figured this out, but good, really good abstracts are hard to execute because there are no boundaires, so what you'll need to do is develope your own aesthetic.

As for materials, there is no one right answer, but I'd suggest starting out with inks or guaches because their vary nature is happenstance--which can lend itself to abstraction.

Good Luck.

2006-10-13 02:45:26 · answer #4 · answered by madeleinesurfs 2 · 0 0

Abstract Art is abstract, I can just tell you that the father of Abstract Art is none other then the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky that used to paint as if he was writing a symphony.

2006-10-13 02:44:55 · answer #5 · answered by amitai 1 · 0 0

All abstract art is meaningless to a remodernist stuckist like me.

2006-10-13 00:38:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

hi....actually people who find your art meaningless doesnt realy appreciate art the way u do....abstract arts always have meanings to people who made them...i suggest acrylic paints...and colors depend on the concept of your work....here's a good tip....dont think so much just watch every stroke you create....have fun!

2006-10-13 00:53:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

try to figure out what are you feeling.. your mood determines your work... i always make multicolor art pieces... it makes me feel good...

its rare to have people appreciate your work... dont get discouraged... just keep on painting...

2006-10-13 00:49:15 · answer #8 · answered by kim B 4 · 1 0

good luck at your painting

2006-10-13 00:44:17 · answer #9 · answered by FLOYD 6 · 0 0

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