What Makes a Good Abstract Painting?
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- I often meet artists who are frustrated with their attempts to make abstract paintings. They feel a pull towards abstraction, but they don't like the results. I believe there are two reasons why this happens... a) lack of clear intention and b) lack of knowledge in a few key areas. The good news is that both can easily be fixed. The issue is NOT a lack of talent ... you just need a little bit more information.
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I cannot remember when I last learned so much in eight minutes - a deeply rewarding experience - very many thanks.
Thank you so much for the kind words John!!
@@ThisPaintingLife you are fabulous. Its packed with information. Need 100 more vieos.
@@bumblebeemelodies2739 thank you!
Imaging playing this at 2x ;)
Hello John! I have a channel about art life and us life. If you join me, i will be so happy!
😁🖌️I painted two abstracts in my journal and was listening to a wonderful CD of orchestra and a very upbeat violinist my mother sent me they were colorful and very gestural. When my friend saw them ...she said , "I see music." I turned the pages and showed her they were named Music #1 and Music #2. It was really amazing to me that she saw it!
You just narrated what I’ve been feeling since starting serious abstract about a month ago. This is great. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
This past weekend, I did an abstract landscape that is, to me, the best I have ever done. Only my husband "got it"... and I did not care. I GOT IT!!! And I loved the play in it, as well as the outcome.
Great , let’s see it, well I’d love to see it!
Finding balance, Yes it does come from within. Often very intuitive. both about color and evolving composition.
Oh my goodness I needed to hear this. I have been practicing for years and have never liked any of my paintings. I've almost given up many times, but I always come back to it. Thank you so much!
Just fill the canvas with colour
I will give this a go. Im trusting u!!!! T .. He
The most important thing that makes a good abstract painting is that it induces emotion!
Marvelously well explained thanks so much
well perhaps ... except some artists don't aim for that, so not in their case
As an artist, that is the basis of my artist statement. People will not by an abstract piece unless they make an emotional connection with it.
Great video. I've made the transition from Photorealism to Abstract Art after I began to feel unsatisfied with my work. After many months of experimentation and having no success with painterly abstraction, I've been making better progress with a more flat/graphical style which has been working well. My subject matter has also changed dramatically and is now focused on my physical reactions and emotional responses to my environment, societal issues, the challenges of parenting, managing anxiety and building resilience. Things are going well so far 🤞
1 - What am I saying/conveying... my experience of my surroundings but no limited to my home, I include my travels as they too are highlights to my experiences.
2 - Principles of design, etc.... I used to be a graphic designer so I think I have that under my belt, I just need to observe when I stray.
THANKS!
Thank you I've been trying to explain this to my husband an myself just couldn't find the right words you nailed it
Glad it was helpful!
Thank You so Much to You, Louise Fletcher. Your compassionate words are Real 👌‼️♥️. Toom@CapeTown
Glad you enjoyed it!
Brilliant. So glad I found you today... I left my art room disappointed.. and bam, here you are. Thank you.
I would respond, but if you can't say something nice...
@@jackiefernandez8080 What? I was being complimentary to Louise, thanking her for posting what she did as it was helpful. My goodness... take a chill pill, or go get it out in your art room.
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OH HEAVEN’S YESH!!❤❤❤ I want to better understand the world of abstract❤❤❤
So glad you are here. Thank you!
Louise Fletcher you are just great! Thank you for this fantastic video!💕💕💕
You are so welcome and I am so glad you enjoyed it!
It's amazing how things fall into place. I woke up today with the urge to paint but I was utterly like lost and didn't know why or what I wanted to paint. And over breakfast this video came up randomly while I was searching for some insight and perspective. Best 8 minutes of my morning. Thank you for this treasure of knowledge.
Aww that's so great to know I could do that for you! ♥
I have realized that I am not painting any particular landscape, but my response to it. It is the response that is the purpose, the language and the passion. Thank you Louise for articulating the artists paint of view. That added a fuller understanding and confirmation
Well put!!!
Thanx
Beautifully described. What intrigues me is how is emotion represented in a painting?
@@tehseenmajothi3928 it is intriguing for me too. colour is my emotional language. SO painting wild magenta forests or trees, it evokes a feeling. that's how I often do it. and design is crucial
This is incredibly helpful! I've been really struggling this past month trying to figure out why I feel so stuck with my work. You hit the nail on the head!
Glad it was helpful!
LOUISE..SALUDOS Y CARIÑOS DESDE CHILE. FELICITACIONES.
Thank you Louise for your simple explanation of abstract art. I always thought I'm weird and a little mad because the "traditional" art did not really attract me however I admire their work and as an newby I copy many photos/artworks but it's not feeling true to myself, I feel lonely. My only painting I really love is the one I did when I was emotionally angry. And it seems to me I'm the only one who loves it but it's okay.
Your taste is your taste alone Gerda and that's what makes each piece you make so special. So if you love it, thats all that matters. Happy Painting!
I WAS A Landscape PAINTER FOR YEARS ,after mastering ,kinkade,winburg,van gogh,it was fun an i still dsbble ,but abstract became my lifes venture into the true world of art ,,ART is what we do ,so when i start ,,i have no subjectnin mind ,,just a color ,,my mood determines the color ,,and from there the piece paints itsself ,you never no what gonna happen ,,it works ,,ive not had a failure in years and the art is piling up ,
Thank you so much. I do agree that there are lots of "easy abstract" videos on RUclips and those are misleading and give poor results. I was happy to learn from this video, that i am not the only one being frustrated after hours spent on a canva and ending up with a "muddy mess".
What a clear explanation. Much food for thought for a novice like myself. So pleased that I came across your video. Thank you so much
I was a good kid in school, but the teacher's didn't really know what to do with me, I was dyslexic and they didn't understand why I wasn't learning. I would physically get sick because of the stress, and the humiliation I suffered from on a daily basis. I just got into art in 2020 ,thank u sweet baby Jesus! Now I have RUclips, I am stumbling through this , I'm on disability so getting classes are out of the question, sadly USA has taken the arts out of school , I really think it's going to show that we are so far behind the rest of the world. I hope to learn more from you. I want u to know that you are in demand over here. We need an opportunity for a stress management with our sad state of our government, hopefully we will be back in the arts soon.. thank you for letting me explain why you are in such a desperate demand for so many people on the spectrum, any kind of learning difficulties, stress relief ,
Thank you so much for what you said. You said it with great heart and clarity, and you made excellent points. It's generous of you to share these deep, important thoughts with your fellow artists.
Louise, thank you so much for this extremely informative video. Thanks also for your open and honest attitude about art. Love your work!
Thanks so much Kerry - I really appreciate that x
Your comments totally resonate! Emotional history to a landscape. Thanks
It IS difficult...and I thought I was doing it wrong because it is hard...this has liberated me!
If it's hard, you're doing it right!!
‘It’s the emotional resonance that sells the work” - 👍 that hit me in the ❤️ thank you and God bless.
Thank you! I love painting abstract! Practicing in my journals is great. I often paint representational abstract, and sometimes just color, textures and shapes and lines. Pastes and gels are my favorite!
This is so helpful, Louise! Thank you! You are like a mind reader! Exactly what I needed right now. As well as your compare and despair message. My week will be better because of your help. You rock! 👍🎨💜
This was such an amazing eye opener for me in so many ways! especially in regards to digging deeper into the "why" of what inspires me. i have taken many photography of nature over the years and looking at them i know exactly why I took the photo. I so enjoy the process of painting the challenge now seems to be something about putting that together with the why. thanks !!
After trawling through so many art videos on youtube, this is the first and only one that has left me with more questions than answers and that is brilliant. Eight minutes of inspiring and thought provoking content. So nice to hear a Yorkshire person too. If you have any tips on how to gain inspiration from living in Leeds rather than beautiful North Yorks that would be greatly appreciated!
OMG Louise, you hit my issues right on the head…so yes! I’ve seen Nicholas Wilton’s podcast and hope he does the online course soon. I have always painted realistic/representationally and want to paint more abstract… but I don’t get it. I know color and design but I’m lacking a point of view. You summed up and answered my questions quite well. I look forward to more of your videos. Thanks you for sharing and understanding my struggle in this… I feel better.
Este es un vídeo al que regreso una y otra vez cuando pierdo el marco de referencia. Gracias una y otra vez, Louise. Amor!
I’m a graphic artist and have taken Nick’s free workshop. 100%, his generous teaching can be a breakthrough for artists of any medium and genre.
I absolutely love your perspective. Whenever I get stuck, I watch some of your videos and they really help me get back on track.
I love the way you explain abstract ,,i feel that what makes us feel about ourselves ,makes for good work ,,abstract, is the art of art ,,art is what we do ,there can be an art to any thing ,,,the pure art of art is abstract ,,even in landscape ,,it took me years to understand that ,but once u do you are on your way to better work
Thank you, Louise. Such a generous and inspiring video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Sooo true; sooo good...yep this is the process.😊🙌
Glad you loved it Susan!
Thank you, Louise. You have made me realise why I want to and need to move to abstraction - I want to lay my heart out on the paper. I will be coming back to this video whenever I start feeling lost 💕
You can do it!😍
I've been struggling in my art due to the pressures of others. I feel like I have to do something good (on the eyes of others). That has made me not enjoy doing art. I'm an illustrator, but I have always found abstract art to be beautiful. I want to express myself, not to be good enough. Thanks for the video!
Yes Louise I’m use to painting objects abstractly but my friend asked me to create an abstract w just marks and shapes for her home and I’m having difficulty which is why I’m here!
Well I'm glad to have you here with me and wish you lots of luck.
Yes, haven't gone into my studio today out of frustration of yesterday's work. I want to paint from my heart ... not from a picture. I'm realizing I'm trying too hard .... not painting from my feelings. Can't wait to see more of your videos and get back into the studio tomorrow.
Wonderful! Glad it was helpful
A truly beautiful and helpful video. Having listened to many artists try to explain their process and intention over the last 50 years, your presentation is extremely down-to-earth and insightful - a tricky thing to achieve in my opinion because it's about the process of engaging deep levels of abstraction within the artist in order to render an abstract image in a physical form, a painting. You hit all the major points in a very clear way. I love your emphasis on the fundamental skills that are always needed: use of color, value, and composition. Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it x
Thank you so much for your clear explanation mam. And i hope now i’m clear 🥰 and again i say thank you
You are welcome 😊
i am totally new to art no idea why i love abstract this video has helped me to understand a bit about why i love abstract thank you.
This is the first time I've heard "the artist's point of view" explained. This has been one of those questions I've had which has got overridden by other artistic concerns I'm dealing with - so I've never asked just what that statement means. Thank you! This makes a huge difference because I realise I haven't been at all clear with myself about what my "point of view" for my painting is. Just want to put paint on the canvas! But I have started to question myself straight away, and It's coming to me, and I know I can dig deeper and discover more about what motivates my painting. I'm doing CVP for the first time at the moment - it may have been explained there but if so I missed it. So grateful!
A MUST SEE VIDEO!!!
Thank you Louise! You have made the nuts and bolts of abstract painting so very clear. I've never heard it expressed better. I have been struggling with it with hits and misses for quite a while and I think I can go back to it now with a new understanding and I appreciate you giving me that! Maggie Chalifoux
Glad it was helpful!
It does irk me a liitle when people say abstract art is easy or a cop out way to paint,neither are true,I came to abstraction over a period of time and now work soley as an abstract painter both traditionally and digitally and it actually feels totally natural to me to paint in this way. I used to be a large scale figure painter and would struggle for ideas or get artist's block, but since becoming an abstract painter I never struggle or get lost for ideas. I found it really frees up my mark making, how I see and work with colour even what I use to apply the paint.It's also enhanced by having the condition Synesthesia, which is when the senses get mixed up and work in tandem, it affects people different ways, for me I can see sound and hear colours, and it's really triggered by listening to music, certain pitches or notes really sets it off. Kandinsky had the condition too and you can see it in his work. I found working in abstract forms is really uplifting, be it as a final painting or working in my sketchbooks. I think it's also a more intuitive/instinctive way to paint, and for me to has a lyrical element to it. I find it really engages my creativity fully when I'm working on a painting.I feel a 'good' abstarct painting is when all the elements speak as a collective whole, the colours, the textures, the forms etc and the ideas that inspired it feels like it's been fully realised.I find looking at the work of other abstract painters it's the sense
of depth to their art work that always draws ,me in and you can get a sense of a moment or gesture captured,for me thats a 'good' abstract painting, when it moves me as I'm looking at it and trying to get a sense of connection with the artist that
created it,but also how that painting connects to me as well.It's so refreshing to hear your take on the idea of a 'good' abstract painting and it struck a chord with me too.
Oh how interesting. I don't have synesthesia, but I do feel that emotions have colours and shapes and I love to put that into my work xx
@@ThisPaintingLife I think colours can invoke memories too and can make us feel a ceratin way when we llok at them or work with them,they are definitly a kind of language.
Yes!
Louise, as one of your students I am in awe of your ability to answer my questions before I can even articulate them. *When the student is ready the teacher will appear* In my case, clarity of intention is my growing edge this summer. I know the rest will follow. Thank you.
Happy to help!
What a wonderful video. So often you hear people talk about making Art with only one of your main focus points. Either they think it is all about the rules or all about how you feel.
So glad you enjoyed it! ♥
Thank you!!!! That was just what I needed. You spoke to ME! You are wonderful!
You are so welcome
TY Louise, I learned a lot from you.
You are so very welcome!
Well said. Of course ive done cvp now. But these things need saying all the time. To sink deep into subconscious so becomes second nature. I hear Nicholas in my head when i paint. Soon i expect i will be hearing u too! So enjoying your Find Your Joy Course. Could not be more impressed! Best R
Thanks Robert!
I love Nicholas Wilton! I watch him every day!! Great teacher!!! Ty for sharing this video! You gotta pull what is on the inside and express it with passion on the outside!!! Very liberating!!
Thanks for watching!
Such good advice! Thank you, Louise. 🌿
You're so welcome!
Thanku!! Its exactly the advice I was looking for!! Yay ! xxx
Thank you for this wise teaching
Means so much to me! I will listen again and ponder with my art.
You are so welcome!
Thank you for this video! It helps me a lot!
Glad it was helpful!
Such a great video, and love the delivery. So definite and logical. Thank you Louise for making these.
Thanks Kathy x
I have been trawling through tutorials with frustration. I feel as though I just found a friend. Thank you! My answer to your 2 questions was a sheepish "both". And then you went on to say that it was the same for you! I feel an inspired hope. 😊
Glad it helped!
Very thought provoking and greatly appreciated. Thank you for bringing clarity to the question.
You are so welcome!
Thank you
Wow this is just the video that I was looking for. After years of representational art, I feel bored and uninspired. I have so many "non literal" paintings but dont know where to start! New subscriber and also signed up for email alerts for Nicholas Wilton's next class!
Makes loads of sense. Thank you. Especially to emphasise the idea that this is difficult. I am struggling... but I am determined. Especially taking on board the idea of "intention".
It just takes time like anything worthwhile :)
I so enjoyed your video and explanation. This is now October 2021 and I did sign up to the free workshop with Nicholas which was amazing. Thank you Louise for generosity and love of painting which is infectious 🙏
You are so welcome!
I get it. You put Inyo words what I feel about wanting to create abstract art. Thank you
You are so welcome and glad you enjoyed it!
Yes
You are so right! I like your art
Thank you so much 😀
Replacing my nagging "make a great painting" with a bigger goal BRILLIANT! I was just trying to ignore it but I believe a bigger goal would work so much better. Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Glad it helped tara :)
Yes! Everyone should do themselves a favor and learn not just color, but balance and composition.
Yes!!
Yes! Each time
absolutely YES
You have encouraged me so much. Thank you for that. I appreciate it. It is really rewarding when I put my heart into it and I have great respect for you.
You are so welcome
This video describes where I'm at in my learning process! I now know I need to educate myself in the technical aspects of design, color, etc. instead of just trying to "wing it".
I also need to have a more defined idea of what I want to make the viewer feel/experience from my painting. Thank you so much for making this video! It has really inspired me!
You are welcome! I'm glad it was helpful
Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Wonderful mini-class that we all can use again and again. Beautiful and clear and encouraging. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
YES!
Beautiful thx 😊
Happy to share :)
thank you so much! it makes so much sense... and yet it's so difficult to achieve, but I finally really understood what wasn't working for me. Not sure if I will ever manage to make it work, but this was so so helpful
Feelings first..your paintings are super.
Many many thanks
Look how beautiful this is. Wow. Thank you for that. That’s it so often for me.
I'm glad you like it
Great video, took me 7 years of thinking and Soul searching to understand abstract art .
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks, Louise. Now I know why I was feeling so “at sea”. You’ve given me an anchor and a course to plot. I guess I won’t give it up after all.
Thank you so much for sharing. I'm glad I was able to help!
I've started abstract painting relatively recent 5 years ago. At the beginning of my art journey, I was trying to express emotions and feelings, I was drawing and painting, mostly symbolism and surrealism.I was wrong.I rediscovered abstract.It's hard especially I'm mostly in "non-intellectual" abstract.Thank you for your video 😊
Thank you! Very inspiring!😊
I love this video! Thank you. It really IS so difficult AND rewarding, Thank goodness (otherwise I'd get bored). Its a science, this abstract thing. And it transforms reality.
Yes it really does!
I'm sad to say that I was one of those people who said that throw paint on a canvas and Bob's your uncle! ... I didn't even understand it , I didn't see the beauty in it now I see it and I love it , and I so desperately want to be able to create even 1% of the beauty that you have, your just incredible , thank you so much
You can do it!
Wow. Your work is sooooo beautiful! It definitely resonates with me. Whether I have the SAME feeling or not, who's to say? This video has inspired me thought. I get frustrated to the point where I'm afraid to share my work, but people usually love it. I'm going to look into a workshop myself. Hopefully one by the same artist that helped you. I think I have what it takes, and knowing someone as talented as yourself once felt the struggle helps. 🤭 Isn't it weird how much that helps? Lol
I had someone tell me she wasn’t an artist so was going to do abstract
O My God! I relate to this. Thank you so much for this video. I appreciate it sooooooo much! Now I know where I stand. If you’re close by, I’d just hug you!
I'm so glad! (although no hugging just yet!!)
Thank you so much! I live n Ireland and it is its landscape and coastline that I love and inspire me, however when I tried to put in onto the canvas, it doesn't do any go for me, t lacks something. I know now, what it is: how I experience it.
Yes!
Thank you…just what I needed to hear, the thought process behind the expression
Glad it was helpful!
I think this is the third time I've listened to this... THANKS!
I am so pleased you found it helpful x
An aha moment for me, at last! At 63 I thought I was just too old to learn anything, although, I know that's not true. Everytime, I tried to paint and ended up with a big mess, I felt like such a failure and it affected me so much emotionally . That's how I knew that this is something that I was meant to do . Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
You are so welcome!
Fantastic, Thank you.!
Glad you liked it!
Louise, this is EXACTLY the video I needed to watch. Everything you said resonated with me. I have been painting almost nonstop at home during the pandemic and Ive gotten to the point where my heart wants to move into abstraction and I’ve been terrified. It IS hard! It’s not just dobs of paint! Thank you for your reassurance and wisdom. Too bad it’s June and it’s too late for the workshop you mentioned, but I will seek the artist out! Definitely subscribed, will watch your vids ❤️
Hi Ximena, I hope the painting is still going well!
thank you! In essence I was going to try and mimic and artist I like for a painting that would go in my home, but I think I will approach it a different way now :)
Wonderful!