Abstract
Joyful and colourful work
These examples of my abstract and colourful paintings display a mix of materials and influences. Some are ink and watercolour, made in a sketchbook. Some are acrylic with collage and arose from work done with Karen Stamper on her Free Up Your Sketchbook and Grow course. Examples of this are the Waterfall and Undersea images.
Others, such as the Pink bricks and Red ellipses images, came from a day of painting a large piece of watercolour paper out in the garden, then tearing it up and working into separate pieces.
Two, Pink square and Orange and blue, started off as a play between two colours.
I love making abstract and colourful paintings, but then I also consider that there is quite a lot of abstraction in any rendering of the real world into 2D space.
It’s interesting that some of these works, which started out as pure explorations of shape and colour, end up looking very much like real things. Waterfall and Undersea are good examples.
For a more reality-based approach to abstract ...
Four-piece abstraction blog post
I had a go at choosing four pieces of an image and remaking them into a new one.