Thank you so very much for all of your Insight I waited until I was 60 plus to decide to try my hand at painting and your teachings are invaluable to me I could never afford them but you're so gracious to share your wisdom and knowledge and it just makes the entire thing so enjoyable thank you thank you thank you
Felecia, thanks so much for the note! I’m so happy you found painting. It makes no difference about your age, only that you enjoy it. I’m happy I can be part of your journey!
Thank you random reddit guy. I saw an abstract he posted, was impressed then read the comments and he said this is where he learned so much (paraphrase). Glad I found you and can't wait to watch more.
Je viens de découvrir vos vidéos et c'est un trésor que vous m'offrez. Merci pour votre générosité. Je vais tenter de voir toutes vos vidéos à la chaîne. Trop contente ! Merci encore.
Thanks so much David! As a total beginner (@76) in abstract art I did not know where I was going to start! Now things are getting much clearer! 😊 Sharon
Found u by chance while browsing through and i must say i am lucky.. loved ur tutorials and love ur art. Never knew abstract art can be so amazing and has so much going on with it.
These video are clear and concise...very useful and appreciated. It is all about contrast...hard and soft edged, light and dark values, intensity - warm and cool or opposite colors, plus an area that is highly detailed contrasting with less cluttered space creates a focal area...it holds the viewer's attention longer.
It is important and it is very helpful. You are telling us things that other youtubers are not mentioning or going into detail. Thank you for that and greetings from Perú!!!
You know what you are talking about. Thanks. There was a small pink/green painting i did once and is lost but always remained in my mind. Now I know why from seeing a very similar work you showed in another video. You and I are very similar, I'm more of a figurative /landscape painter but we think about colour in the same way. Thank you very much for sharing your excellent and correct knowledge!!
Im really glad i found you. I like what you teach and i love your style. I havent watched every single video, but i do believe that i would recognize your paintings. You have a very unique signature style.
David M. Kessler Fine Art Great video. I think this will be very helpful. Love your channel. Looking forward to an upcoming workshop of yours I will be attending.
Thank you, been abstracting for awhile now , lovin your vids i'm self taught in New Zealand. Just had my aha moment lol, now i know i'm on the right track
This is great, I’m an abstract painter and it is so easy to forget composition in the intuitive process. But I want my work to be really goo quality. Thank you this is awseome!
Well- that breaks it down fairly simply into terms I can understand really well. One of those AH-HA moments!! Thanks so much- really great- short, simple- right to the point!! Fantastic!! Learned to so much!!
Thank you so much for these great videos \tutorials!! They are helping me tremendously when I am setting up a composition for my abstract painting! I’m a newbie!! A few paintings I have done just do not feel right… So with your help and great tutorials I can see why… Composition and center of interest! I am taking notes!! 😃
Thank you so much Dear David Sir.Namaste from India. I love your art work and your videos are so wonderful. I too paint and there is so much to learn from you
Thank you very much, David. It is so obvious that you really care about your "students" out here, and I appreciate that so much. I'll be 70 this coming January, and this is the first time I am learning in a way that makes me think I can really do this! Thank you, again.
Yes! We need to make our paintings the ones that attract the ATTENTION in a gallery. The people will see it and it will draw them to it. I paint realism, abstract realism, and abstract. 😁
Very helpful info. Looking back on some of my pieces that worked, and the ones that seemed to be missing something, this definitely sheds light on the areas I struggled. I do however question if all three bullet points are needed. I’ve seen some really incredible work from artists like Samantha DaSilva where no hard edges are found, and no color wheel rules were followed. I think adding the element of texture can change some of these rules and add a point of interest where hard edges or color change is lacking. This was still immensely helpful nonetheless! Thanks for sharing this content.
Enjoyed ths video... and love your painting behind u... the vibrancy of the piece makes it desirable, just as u said.. because of the center of interest...
im staying with u..... i love your pieces of color... and your videos that help me in so many ways... my latest struggle is trying to free my hand.. :)
Abstract I like to follow the shapes and color most of all around the painting. So I guess all my art sucks but it did make me feel a relief of anxiety when I liked it though my brother doesn’t like my art, my sister loves it.
Bruno, Thank you! I have more detailed application principles in my live workshops and paid online courses - I can't give away everything for free! Thanks for watching.
Finally!! Thank you I'm an extreme hyper realist this is the first explanation of abstract that makes sense. My issue is when to stop???...lol I have Pareidolia where i always see some figure or form with in... but I've been wanting to explore my voice in abstracts.. so thank you this is a good place to start.. :D
JustJoszie thanks for watching and thanks for the comment. The reason you see “things” is because you always paint realistic “things”. That is the way you currently relate to abstract paintings. Making the switch for you will require thinking and seeing differently.
okay, I was hoping it was about NOT thinking (over-thinker) lol but I see its about freedom... beyond reality. I'm self taught professional for 7 years. I always looked at abstracts and "say" " I don't get it" I still don't they just look fun... but truth be told this video makes me Get it.. ty gona give it a go
I agree that a center of interest (focal point) is important because it is helpful to the viewer. The artist can do whatever he/she wants, but if my eye can't grab onto anything my attention is scattered. Instead of being pulled into the art work, I move on. At this point it's just a matter of taste, but if I were painting, I'd want to grab as much (positive) viewer attention as possible. I've always been fascinated by abstract art because the viewer can put in his own thoughts and interpretation. To me, it never gets boring. But just because someone puts paint on a canvas in a seemingly random and freestyle manner, does not make it good art. Again, everyone has their own opinion. This is just what works for me. :)
Azadeh Nikou I have several videos that describe all of my materials - it keeps me from answering the same questions over and over. Here is the link to the brush video: ruclips.net/video/sxCssPkLrjc/видео.html. Please keep in mind it makes NO DIFFERENCE what kind of brush you use, only what you do with it.
Nancy Fox there were no centers of interest in his pieces. I combine classical painting theory with abstract painting, because almost no other abstract painters do. Abstract Expressionism was a movement against classical painting structure.
Thank you so very much for all of your Insight I waited until I was 60 plus to decide to try my hand at painting and your teachings are invaluable to me I could never afford them but you're so gracious to share your wisdom and knowledge and it just makes the entire thing so enjoyable thank you thank you thank you
Felecia, thanks so much for the note! I’m so happy you found painting. It makes no difference about your age, only that you enjoy it. I’m happy I can be part of your journey!
Abstract painting is heart of the art.
Kessler is a great painter. He is also a great teacher.
Thanks Steven, I appreciate it!
Wow! Very informative. I feel like a magician has spilled the secret to his tricks. Thank you!
maria spelleri you’re welcome! Thanks for watching.
Thank you random reddit guy. I saw an abstract he posted, was impressed then read the comments and he said this is where he learned so much (paraphrase). Glad I found you and can't wait to watch more.
Thanks Christopher.
Gracias por esta lección. Estoy empezando y estaba buscando alguien que me lo explicara. Thank you🙏
De nada
I find your video instructions are very helpful and inspiring .tnx
I appreciate that
SO helpful, thank you
You’re welcome!
I'm only two videos in and your content is already so helpful! I took art years ago and these are great refreshers and examples. Thank you!!!
You’re welcome - thanks for watching.
Je viens de découvrir vos vidéos et c'est un trésor que vous m'offrez. Merci pour votre générosité. Je vais tenter de voir toutes vos vidéos à la chaîne. Trop contente ! Merci encore.
I have just watched one of the most interesting and valuable videos. Thank YOU MUCH.
You’re welcome.
That explains a lot about why I seem to like your abstracts better than most! Super explanation and applicable to more than abstract art!! Thank you!
Thom, you’re welcome and thanks for your input. You’re right - this is the same way you make a COI in any type of painting. Thanks for watching!
@@davidm.kesslerfineart1717 By the way, PLEASE do more of the watercolor abstracts. I really love those. Grrrreat channel. So happy I found you!!!
Thom Bluemel I’ll try to film a few more watercolor demos. Thanks for your support!
All your videos are so helpful and insightful. Thank you for taking the time to make them!
Casey, thank you - and thanks for watching!
Thanks so much David! As a total beginner (@76) in abstract art I did not know where I was going to start! Now things are getting much clearer! 😊 Sharon
Sharon, you’re welcome! Thanks for watching.
Wow, great lesson, I had no idea about this.
This good lesson. Thank you
You’re welcome, thanks for watching.
Informative and useful .,.thank you
You’re welcome!
@@davidm.kesslerfineart1717 you are Inspiring 🤗
Again! I’m loving your videos. Straight forward, honest facts…thanks, David!
Jill, you’re welcome.
This makes so much sense. I have ventured into abstract from landscaping but found my abstracts lacking. Thank you
Jack, you’re welcome.
Thank you. Very helpful to me.
You’re welcome
Found u by chance while browsing through and i must say i am lucky.. loved ur tutorials and love ur art. Never knew abstract art can be so amazing and has so much going on with it.
Priyadarshini M thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment.
These video are clear and concise...very useful and appreciated. It is all about contrast...hard and soft edged, light and dark values, intensity - warm and cool or opposite colors, plus an area that is highly detailed contrasting with less cluttered space creates a focal area...it holds the viewer's attention longer.
You’re welcome - thanks for watching
It is important and it is very helpful. You are telling us things that other youtubers are not mentioning or going into detail. Thank you for that and greetings from Perú!!!
Sergio V Hi! Thanks for the note, I appreciate it. Glad you found it helpful, and thank you for watching!
I agree. I love how well you explain it. Thank you. Very helpfull.
Happy to hear it was helpful!
wow, thank you. That is so helpful
You’re welcome!
Great teaching, thank you !
Carol, you’re welcome.
I am so grateful for your teachings, your videos, etc. So much to learn and you lay it out and demonstrate it so well. You are a wonderful teacher!
Thank you Anne.
Thank you. this video is very helpful. All the best.
VERY helpful video.. thank you so much for sharing your wisdom sir..
Tee, you’re welcome
You know what you are talking about. Thanks. There was a small pink/green painting i did once and is lost but always remained in my mind. Now I know why from seeing a very similar work you showed in another video. You and I are very similar, I'm more of a figurative /landscape painter but we think about colour in the same way. Thank you very much for sharing your excellent and correct knowledge!!
Thanks for sharing and for watching.
Thank you for this explanation. Very helpful.
Tannie, you’re welcome - thanks for watching!
Definitely helpful!
Phil, happy to hear it. Thanks for watching.
Thanks a lot❤🙏🙏 very helpful video
You’re welcome.
Im really glad i found you. I like what you teach and i love your style. I havent watched every single video, but i do believe that i would recognize your paintings. You have a very unique signature style.
Thank you Diane, I appreciate you watching.
Amazing artwork!
Thank you
so helpful, thanks!
You’r welcome -thanks for watching!
Thank you for watching How to Develop a Center of Interest in an Abstract Painting. Leave a comment and be sure to like and share the video - Thanks!
David M. Kessler Fine Art Great video. I think this will be very helpful. Love your channel. Looking forward to an upcoming workshop of yours I will be attending.
María Camp thank you - I look forward to meeting you at the workshop!
I hope you go on for ever with your generous information, so clear, inspiring, motivating .
Joanna van den eijnden thank you so much! Thanks for watching!
Thanks a lot for this class, David!
Lila, you’re welcome!
Your video is focused and informative!!
MUCH appreciated.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for sharing! Great tips...
Fina Khan you’re welcome! Thank you for watching.
I very much learn a lot with your teachings. You make sense in the things you say. Your a great teacher
Rhonda Lagemann thank you so much, I appreciate that,
Thanks David!
Robert, you’re welcome
Thanks for sharing David... always enjoy your youtubes
Robyn Atsidaftis you're welcome.
Thanks for your help! I learned a lot.
Ice Angel you’re welcome. Thank you for watching!
Love it, can’t wait to try
Thank you, been abstracting for awhile now , lovin your vids i'm self taught in New Zealand. Just had my aha moment lol, now i know i'm on the right track
Kim Johnson, aha moments are great! Thanks for watching!
I have learned so much from your videos. you are an inspiration. Thank you!
Angela, you’re welcome!
This is great, I’m an abstract painter and it is so easy to forget composition in the intuitive process. But I want my work to be really goo quality. Thank you this is awseome!
Moe, you’re welcome - thanks for watching.
Well- that breaks it down fairly simply into terms I can understand really well. One of those AH-HA moments!! Thanks so much- really great- short, simple- right to the point!! Fantastic!! Learned to so much!!
Brandy, happy I can help - thanks for watching!
What a clear and beautiful explanation. Very inspiring, sir.
Love your art style!!!!
Thank you!
A born teacher. Thank you
Thank you!
Thanks David! Very helpful tips! Thanks again...
Derek Philip Monteiro you’re welcome - thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for these practical lessons. I found them useful guidance, and you've made them so simple. All make good sense.
You’re welcome.
I am grateful I found your channel. I'm learning so much from you. Thank you for your time and knowledge!
Patti E you’re welcome. I’m glad you found me too!
Thank you for such an informative lesson.
Shreeyanka Mahakud you’re welcome. Thank you for watching!
Love the video thanks for teaching us!
Christeen, you’re welcome!
good info
Thank you so much. This video was very helpful. Your videos are always appreciated.
Brenda O'Quin thanks for watching.
Thank you👍
Erina, you’re welcome.
Thank you! I love your video's!
Gentle Boho you're welcome! Thanks so much for watching.
Thank you for this excellent video. I always watch your videos to get inspiration.
Sveinn Palsson thanks for watching!
Thanks David! Your videos are teaching me how to APPLY the theory's I've learned . This one really hit the spot for me.
Ruth Ann Litterick that's great to hear - thanks for letting me know!
Great video thank you 😃💓🐼⚓🔥
You’re welcome.
Thanks, Dave! I’m learning a great deal from your insights and teaching! 🎨🖌👍
Lynn, you’re welcome!
Very helpful tips
Thank you so much for these great videos \tutorials!! They are helping me tremendously when I am setting up a composition for my abstract painting! I’m a newbie!! A few paintings I have done just do not feel right… So with your help and great tutorials I can see why… Composition and center of interest! I am taking notes!! 😃
Terry, you’re welcome - happy to hear they’re helpful for you.
Thank you, appreciate this.
You’re welcome - thanks for watching!
So helpful
Thank you so much Dear David Sir.Namaste from India. I love your art work and your videos are so wonderful. I too paint and there is so much to learn from you
Thank you very much, David. It is so obvious that you really care about your "students" out here, and I appreciate that so much. I'll be 70 this coming January, and this is the first time I am learning in a way that makes me think I can really do this! Thank you, again.
Cheryl64014 you're welcome. Glad to hear you find it helpful. Believe me, you can do it!
With what I'm learning from you, David, I do believe you're right! I do believe I _can_ do it! :)
I totally agree with you on the center interest in the painting whatever genre it is... thank you for your excellent videos 🙏
Shatha, thanks for sharing, and for watching!
Your video helped me out a lot. Thank you.
Linda, you’re welcome, thank you for watching!
Very helpful. I love painting abstracts but sometimes I get lost in all the detail and obscurity, so thank you for teaching this.
riteasrain you're welcome! Thanks as always, for your comment.
Thank you very much for sharing. When are we going to see you painting a new abstract?
Hoda Dessouki you're welcome. I won't have any time to film new videos until September, so I'll try to squeeze a painting video in.
Yes! We need to make our paintings the ones that attract the ATTENTION in a gallery. The people will see it and it will draw them to it. I paint realism, abstract realism, and abstract. 😁
The Best is yet to come God is awesome 😊
Amazing tips i have just started learning abstract painting its helped me a lot .. many thanks 🌷
Reem Alhindi you're welcome. Thanks for watching and best wishes for your art making!
Very helpful info. Looking back on some of my pieces that worked, and the ones that seemed to be missing something, this definitely sheds light on the areas I struggled. I do however question if all three bullet points are needed. I’ve seen some really incredible work from artists like Samantha DaSilva where no hard edges are found, and no color wheel rules were followed. I think adding the element of texture can change some of these rules and add a point of interest where hard edges or color change is lacking. This was still immensely helpful nonetheless! Thanks for sharing this content.
6:20 looks like the colors from Lorde's melodrama album omg. I love your paintings!!
Muy bueno este video. Muchas gracias.
De nada.
Excellent suggestions and simplified for me!
Diana Kay Kenyon thank you - hope its helpful for you.
Welcome Respected Sir
Enjoyed ths video... and love your painting behind u... the vibrancy of the piece makes it desirable, just as u said.. because of the center of interest...
jane skidmore bennett thanks for watching!
im staying with u..... i love your pieces of color... and your videos that help me in so many ways... my latest struggle is trying to free my hand.. :)
jane skidmore bennett happy to hear the videos are helpful for you!
Makes sense 😂 . Thanks again! Like the painting behind you too!
Awilda Cruz Cruz you’re welcome and thanks for watching!
Great info!
Very well you teach Respected Sir. Thanks a lot
Thank you, indeed helpful
Judy Hyland you’re welcome’
Abstract I like to follow the shapes and color most of all around the painting. So I guess all my art sucks but it did make me feel a relief of anxiety when I liked it though my brother doesn’t like my art, my sister loves it.
Thanks a lot sir..would love to meet u someday :)
Aditi Morayya you're welcome. Maybe our paths will cross.
This is fantastic! But, would it be ok for you to record a video applying the 3 principles? That would be ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!
Bruno, Thank you! I have more detailed application principles in my live workshops and paid online courses - I can't give away everything for free! Thanks for watching.
great videos!
Reno Jackson thank you!
Finally!! Thank you I'm an extreme hyper realist this is the first explanation of abstract that makes sense. My issue is when to stop???...lol I have Pareidolia where i always see some figure or form with in... but I've been wanting to explore my voice in abstracts.. so thank you this is a good place to start.. :D
JustJoszie thanks for watching and thanks for the comment. The reason you see “things” is because you always paint realistic “things”. That is the way you currently relate to abstract paintings. Making the switch for you will require thinking and seeing differently.
okay, I was hoping it was about NOT thinking (over-thinker) lol but I see its about freedom... beyond reality. I'm self taught professional for 7 years. I always looked at abstracts and "say" " I don't get it" I still don't they just look fun... but truth be told this video makes me Get it.. ty gona give it a go
I wish you could relate these with what you are doing, as you do it, in an overdub
Great info, thank you!
Impulsive Artistry you’re welcome - thanks for watching!
Great video! Also, great name!
Kendall Kessler thanks - I see we do have something in common!
I agree that a center of interest (focal point) is important because it is helpful to the viewer. The artist can do whatever he/she wants, but if my eye can't grab onto anything my attention is scattered. Instead of being pulled into the art work, I move on. At this point it's just a matter of taste, but if I were painting, I'd want to grab as much (positive) viewer attention as possible. I've always been fascinated by abstract art because the viewer can put in his own thoughts and interpretation. To me, it never gets boring. But just because someone puts paint on a canvas in a seemingly random and freestyle manner, does not make it good art. Again, everyone has their own opinion. This is just what works for me. :)
Yep, I agree.
okay I think I got it... let's see if I do it. LOL Love this painting I'm moved.
If cool color recede and warm colors come forward, would you make hard edge with predomitatly warmer colors?
Could you please let me know What brand and quality brush you use, David?
Azadeh Nikou I have several videos that describe all of my materials - it keeps me from answering the same questions over and over. Here is the link to the brush video: ruclips.net/video/sxCssPkLrjc/видео.html. Please keep in mind it makes NO DIFFERENCE what kind of brush you use, only what you do with it.
How would you find a center of interest in Jackson Pollack? It seems to have zero center of interest as the point of the piece.
Nancy Fox there were no centers of interest in his pieces. I combine classical painting theory with abstract painting, because almost no other abstract painters do. Abstract Expressionism was a movement against classical painting structure.
Thanks Dave- that would explain it. I love your tutorials
Nancy Fox thank you - I appreciate your support!