Bridge the gap between figurative and abstract painting.
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Enhance your water-based media pieces and create a level of illusion in your work with watercolor, gouache, and acrylic paints.
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- Learn to deform, reduce, and simplify reality to create imagery that stimulates the viewers’ imagination.
- Discover the differences between stylization, semi-figurative art, and illusion and find out which style resonates best with your skills.
- Lend greater strength to your work as a whole with enhanced suggestion of your forms rather than literal depictions of your subjects.
- Enrich your works with a sense of unity—create echoes of line, colour, texture, form, size or direction with tips from a top artist.
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- Introduction
- What do we mean by ‘abstract art’?
- Art as medicine
- Visualization
- Simplification
- Transforming reality
- What do I need?
- Materials
- Which paint?
- Colours
- Which brush?
- What else?
- How does it work?
- Principles and elements of a picture
- Unity
- Contrast
- Dominance
- Gradation
- Repetition
- Harmony
- Balance
- Line
- Tone
- Colour
- Colour harmonies
- Texture
- Form
- Proportion
- Direction
- How do I combine reality and illusion?
- Stylisation
- Semi-figurative art
- Illusion
- Pretty picture or a good painting?
- Technique or art?
- Sketching
- Character
- How do I do that?
- The wood and the trees
- Abstract painting
- Practical application
- How do I learn to lie?
- Between image and reality
- Suggestion
- Planning
- Simplicity
- What next?
- Tips and tricks
- Short checklist
- Towards a style of your own
- Distorted reality
- In conclusion
- Contributing artists
Item #: AAM138
ISBN: 9781844485604
128 Pages
Dimensions: 8.8 x 8.7 x 0.6 inches
Realistic Abstracts: Painting Abstracts Based on What You See
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Bridge the gap between figurative and abstract painting. Discover a unique and imaginative outlet for your artwork with this exciting new resource!
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