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Abstract Art: A Step-by-Step Painting Demonstration

From Karen Day-Vath, for About.com

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Adding to the Abstract

Abstract ArtAbstract Art © Karen Day-Vath 2004

"I feel as though I am 'tied to the universe' that vast area of nothingness behind me, I am floating up and above from it. Seeing and being a part of the beauty of it. How we are all a part of it, how we are all tied together by it. I feel the emotion rising inside me. I use my brush to continue on defining areas, adding more color, more texture. I am really feeling the excitement now.

"I keep moving my brush over the purple area adding a touch of white as I go along. I keep defining my mid point of the white/yellow orange area. I decide to bring more white into my blue. As I continue on I remove the alizarin crimson and add more yellow to that area to make it more of a red orange, the fiery color of the passion I now feel coursing through me. I then line it with some lemon to bring out the color and that flow I am looking for.

"I do some more texturing and I add another ribbon of the purple. I continue to add white to different areas to lighten some of the blue and purple and also to outline them. I also add more Prussian blue to darken the blue areas just a touch more. I really like what I see, ribbons of color coming from the vast unknown, and most of all how I feel deep within my being. That feeling of being free, spiritually and emotionally, to be able to create through my painting, the ties that connect us all to the universe. I am giving birth to my emotions and my soul."

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