Have you ever seen an abstract painting and wondered what the hell the artist was thinking? Well, here are my thoughts on the process of abstract painting. The title of this piece is “Mindscape” — but I’ll get into that later. It’s 20″X20″, Acrylic on Canvas.

I’m a Virgo… as such, in my work, styles shift glacially over the course of many years. Occasionally, I like to try something really different — this painting was that.

As a sterling 2.98 student in college, I spent many hours sketching in my text books. Most became free-flowing, geometrical masses sprawling in several directions.

So, channeling the past and drawing with a clear mind… this is the mindscape that developed. It seemed to make a great deal of sense to me. As always, I painted with a size 1 brush. Go-Go-Virgo.

I went for one-and-done layers, beginning with careful gradients, but alas, none of this work would survive on the final surface.

Here I began to fill in the forms in flat tones to get rid of the white spaces. The color choices were fluid, but intentional. I was trying to find correlative planes to twist the form.

As in all of my night paintings, the under-painting is daytime…. then, I turn out the lights and pop a few back on.

Here it all made sense… when I wasn’t painting, I was looking and plotting colors.

Pretty much there… at this point, I took a break and ate Thanksgiving Dinner.

And the final… an exploration in Abstraction and Cubism… I really enjoyed creating this. It was refreshing to build colors based on form without attempting to represent anything (though, someone on Instagram insisted it was a Transformer — alas, they do not drug test users prior to posting comments).

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