The Park

first abstract art lesson

One thing I have learned is that abstract art does not have to look real. It does not have to look good. It has to be wrong. So, for your first lesson, I want you to draw, paint, or otherwise create art, wrong. Draw with your left hand, or if you are a lefty, use your right. Do other things to spoil your art, like, smearing lines or color. spill color. Figuratively, blow your nose in it!

Now, forgetting it's wrongness, how do you like it?

Octopus' Garden

I had a dry spell for a month or more, then, I decide to do something simple, just to get my mind and hands working artistically again. I have a friend who's a Beatles fan, so I threw this on a canvas, He loved it. Unfortunately, my camera didn't. It is a bit blurred. Normally, I'd use my scanner, but that was giving me problems, at the time.

Red Curve

This was done as an experiment in space and contrasting colors, big blue space under a big red curve and small red lines on a yellow space.

Skyline At Night

This is roughly based on a skyline at night. It's more abstract than I had planned

Bleeding Blue Apple

I did this in art class, at the Art Lab, in the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY. It's mostly my work, but my teacher, Robert Sievert, showed me how to do the light and shadow. Done with acrylic paints on 9X12 canvas board

Units B & W

Titanium White & Mars Black Acrylic Paint on 9X12 Canvas Board

Curves on Colors

Breast Sponge

I had a spherical sponge which I painted with acrylics

Goldfish II

This was done along with my teacher, Robert Sievert, at Staten Island's Art Lab. I painted the fish with a little green background. Robert spread and thinned the green.
SOLD

Buildings

This was an experiment in light & shadow.

Partial Stencil Work

Lines & Dots

Mushroom Trees II

Rainbow Face

This was an experiment in detail. I don't have much patience. I normally get a picture done in about an hour. This time, I made myself take a lot of time on a lot of detail. Unfotrunately, it wasn't shot well due to my shaky hands. At 16X20, it was too large for my scanner. It was painted with acrylics.

Mushroom Trees

This was done with my usual markers and paper.

I like this piece because the scale is ambiguous. The color suggests trees or large bushes. but the shape suggests mushrooms or small bushes

Alex Calder IX

Units Curved

Complete Unit Collection

Artistic B

Primary red acrylic on a mix titanium white and ultramarine blue acrylic, done on a 9X12 canvas board.