You could totally call it done here, let it dry and flip it around to finish the bottom edge. This is after the first pass through of the second layer. You can see the two areas of beige slightly mixing in with the white, creating a bit of interest. Maybe that is hard to see.Ībove as I was almost finished with this step except for the lower left corner. I dabbed them over the already beige areas of the canvas from layer one, as seen above. Then with a light hand I smeared the white over the first layer, while trying not to push the paint into the crevasses left behind by the texture and ridges of the first layer. The next day, I dabbed small amounts of white paint all over the canvas. I did turn the canvas on a different side before then and painted the fourth edge. The texture of the paint needs to be dry before you can do the next step. Without waiting, but you certainly could, I added a few areas of drama deep turquoise.
I wanted each color to have sort of distinct areas, but with a little overlap here and there, and I wanted to create a lot of little ridges and textures of paint throughout the painting.Ībove you can see the ridges created by sliding the spatula through the paint. Two things I was concerned about during this step were to not smear the colors into each other too much. I dabbed each paint onto the canvas as you see above and started smearing them around and with the spatula. This canvas is 16 x 20 inches.įor the first layer I put all sorts of strong colors in the red/warm family together. I also got the stretched primed canvas from one of those two places. The Liquitex paints are my favorites because they have the most body to them, which work well for this technique. + a tube of Liquitex white, not pictured. Here are my supplies: a spatula and some paints. So that is what I have been working on this week to get this room ready for the reveal. What?īut you are probably not even noticing that because that bench situation is screaming so loudly for some artwork. Let me tell you about the new abstract painting I made for over the bench/tower combination in our master bathroom that Frank and I built in there.
#EASY ABSTRACT DRAWING FOR BEGINNERS UPDATE#
There is an update on our master bath progress at the bottom of this post.