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Painting in Abstract

Mixed Media Artwork Inspired by the Natural World

Carole Robson

Description

Painting in Abstract guides the reader through simple combinations of wet media such as watercolour, gouache, acrylic and Indian inks. The book goes on to examine and include other media and techniques; exploring media that combine happily, and those that resist each other to create interesting and unexpected effects.

The author offers strategies for developing concepts and improving design, with a chapter devoted to the formal elements line, shape, colour, tone, texture and surface pattern that can be harnessed to produce impactful work. Readers will be provided the tools and inspiration to find their own interpretations. She covers various aspects of the natural landscape, from close-up details to more distant views, celebrating wildflowers, seed heads, berries and leaves. It peers inquisitively into ditches, hedgerows and verges, and soaks up the idyll of flower-rich meadows.

In addition, exciting techniques such as washing or spraying off an image, using improvised mark-making tools and weathering collage through rusting, ripping and singeing are included alongside printing or stencilling acrylic gel or texture paste to enliven a surface.