I read a very interesting book this week called, "Abstracts (Collins Learn to Paint)
", by Laura Reiter. I don't do many abstracts and was interested to see what they were all about. I found the "Working With Collage" chapter helpful.
The nearest I usually get to doing abstracts is using encaustic waxes, on a day that I don't feel like doing a traditional picture. I cover my food warmer with glossy junk mail, (I always knew that there had to be a use for it), then I put my card on the food warmer. Next, I drip wax from the encaustic iron onto the card and blow the melted wax around with my hairdryer. It is incredibly therapeutic! Occasionally I try to direct the wax into a dramatic sky, but sometimes, just like a very young child, I see what I think it looks like and then add a few details. It's the sort of thing that everybody should do at least once in their life.
A quote by William Baziotes,
"Each painting has it's own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself."
", by Laura Reiter. I don't do many abstracts and was interested to see what they were all about. I found the "Working With Collage" chapter helpful. The nearest I usually get to doing abstracts is using encaustic waxes, on a day that I don't feel like doing a traditional picture. I cover my food warmer with glossy junk mail, (I always knew that there had to be a use for it), then I put my card on the food warmer. Next, I drip wax from the encaustic iron onto the card and blow the melted wax around with my hairdryer. It is incredibly therapeutic! Occasionally I try to direct the wax into a dramatic sky, but sometimes, just like a very young child, I see what I think it looks like and then add a few details. It's the sort of thing that everybody should do at least once in their life.
A quote by William Baziotes,
"Each painting has it's own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself."
1 comments:
I love this one too! How neat!
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