Kate Kiernan Acrylic Abstractions
- Mardi Gras
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Acrylic Painting
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30" x 24"
- Acrylic on canvas board
- Thanks to some encouragement from a fellow Artid artist, I've decided to do some acrylic abstractions again.
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- Tropical Waters
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Acrylic Painting
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24" x 30"
- I start with a pre-primed canvas board and initially use black acrylic paint just to get a bold framework to work on, over or to leave alone. I used one color for each of the primary colors and two greens, a yellow ochre and I mixed pink, purple and orange plus a few touches of titanium white. I was initially going to call the piece "Yellow Dolphins Hunting", but there was too much color and activity and I thought the dolphins could just as easily be seen a bananas amidst a complex arrangement of tropical fruit.
There are a few things I've learned over the years about painting abstract expressionist paintings--Be bold, be vibrant, vary your mark from thick to medium to thin, use different tools, make the corners of the painting as interesting as the center, don't get precious-learn to paint over blocks of areas that are too busy, too complex-detailed, take advantage of complementary colors, always use some neutral color to offset the brilliant colors and make the image hold together, let go of the critic and trust your intuition.
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- School Of Fish
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Acrylic Painting
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22" x 28" x 1"
- I'm exploring an abstract expressionist style in the last few acrylic paintings. The colors and the rhythm of this painting reminds me of a warmer climate, tropical with an abundance of colorful fish and plant life. This was a real pleasure to paint, I only wish I could work as large as Joan Mitchell did, but I'm afraid I can't afford it and I don't have the proper work space, though I think I will try painting on the floor again on unstretched canvas. I recently got more enamel house paint.
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