Let's Loosen Up and Paint An Abstract
Learn to express yourself through abstract painting using rich color and texture
Hi there, and welcome to my class on abstract painting!
A white piece of watercolor paper can be intimidating for a painter, especially beginners. Deciding what to paint is not always easy. To overcome this daunting first step, I like a student's first painting to be an abstract.
Focusing on shape, form, and color, rather than trying to paint something representational, gets us warmed up and takes the pressure off!
This course focuses on using texture and color to explore the creative process. I’ll teach you how to throw, splatter, and pour the paint onto your paper!
Your abstract painting will probably not look like anything familiar, but learning different ways to manipulate the pigment is an important part of the creative process.
You will learn:
About colors— what each color represents: its "temperature," and how it tends to make us feel
How to generate emotion in your painting
How to use textures in your abstract
How to add more colors for darker values
All about glazing
A clever way to sign your signature
Techniques featured in this course:
- Wet-into-dry
- Wet-into-wet
- Candle
- Masking tape
- Scraping
- Splattering
- Glazing
By the end of this course, you’ll have the knowledge and skill set to create your own abstract painting. This is a wonderful exercise to do with your family and friends; anyone can paint an abstract.
This course is for beginners or anyone who wants to learn the techniques required to paint a loose abstract.
Let's have some fun and throw some crazy colors around!
Jayne
Your Instructor
As a native of San Diego and graduate of San Diego State University, I have been painting and exhibiting my work for more than 30 years throughout Southern California. The bold lines, fluid shapes, and my color palette are influenced by my father’s paintings and my degree in graphic design.
In much of my work, I seek to capture our emotional and visceral response to a fleeting but sublime moment in time, a combination of color, intensity, movement, and expression.
While known for my representational and abstract work, my love is for portraits, and I have been honored with awards that include Best in Show for Cowboy at the San Dieguito Off Track Gallery and the Logan Award and Golden Award for Maasai Boy at the San Diego Watercolor Society’s 34th International Show.
For over a decade, I have been running workshops and juried watercolor shows in the San Diego area while teaching all levels of watercolor painting at a local community college and in my studio in Encinitas, CA. I find tremendous satisfaction from teaching and seeing my students, improve, gain confidence, and express themselves through watercolor.