Abstract Landscape Paintings

Distant Mountain

I wanted to create a landscape abstract seen with a unique color scheme.  Distant Mountain was a painting I created to show depth or distant using atmosphere value.  In other words, the further away something is in a landscape the lighter the value of it's color.  This painting was done in 2014 in September.  I used acrylic paint to produce this painting. My brushes was liner and filbert. I usually use a sponge when I make landscape paintings however this time I did not. The painting is 5 x 7 inches

Pink Vegetation

Here is another abstract painting produced on the same day but with a different color scheme.  If you notice the composition is different as well. In this painting I introduced a trail or a path.  This painting was produced in acrylic as well.  I used a liner brush, round brush, and filbert brush. Finally, the sky background I wanted to capture the transition of sky tones.  This painting is 5 x 7 inches.

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Acrylic Painting of Palm Trees

Between the Two Palm Trees 

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I was originally inspired to paint an abstract in this color scheme.  The process involved a sable brush, sponge and pallete knife. The colors I used for this painting was: black, white, green, light brown, blue, and yellow. This painting was created sometime last year in 2014.
As I stated earlier I started out with an abstract in mind but during the process I changed my mind.  I just did not like how it was develeping. I left what I had on the canvas and took a break, while on break I decided to do a beach schene in some what of an abstract style concering the sky.

As you can see when I started out with the painting my dominate color was yellow.  This eventual turn into the background forming the sky. I mixed some green and white into the yellow.  I acheived this by spraying some water on to the yellow painted surface for the sky. Then I followed up with a sponge that contained a mixture of green and white to create the clouds.  I dabbed the canvas repeatedly over the areas where I wanted clouds.

Next I focused on the water. I mixed blue and some green to acheive a seawater likeness. Later I added waves.  I accomplished this by using a sable brush which is designed to blend paint. I only used the tip of the edge of the brush with white paint.  By doing this is gave the painting a sense of depth or distance. I used the wet on wet technique to blend the seawater color tones with the sable brush in a horizotal motion.

The beach and palm trees were last in the process.  For those who do not know when you paint a landscape you always work from background to the foreground in the composition.  I used a palette knife to apply the paint to create the beach and palm trees.  I mixed black and green to get a very dark green. Also a used paint medium called Liquitex mattie super heavy gel and add it into the paint to thicken it.  By doing this it created texture which you can see in the beach and palms.  When I finish it I look at the painting and there was something missing birds so a just added some birds into the sky and this completed the painting.
This painting titled "Between the Palm Trees" are available in prints at www.fineartamerica.com  If you are interested in the original then please email me. Thank you.

Looking up through the Trees

Looking Up Through the Tree Tops Brings Warm Memmories


This painting was done in acrylic size (10 x 14 cm).  I was inspired to do natural abstract piece from nature.  This work literally brings a warm feelings to me.  I grew up where there was lots of trees.  I remember moments walking through the woods right next to my home that there was a ditch it went through the woods. I would look up through the branches and leaves on a nice spring and summer day.

You might say,why do this painting too small.  Well I wanted to do a quick study on improving my ability to create the illusion of texture of the leaves. I used a flat brush to began my painting and I later switched to a liner brush to bring forth the branches and tree trunk.  I really like the natural color scheme of the sky blue and the various tones of green in the image.  I used a little of Liquitex matte super heavy gel to give the leaves a textured look to the piece. I really like to use liquitex (mshg) in my abstract creations. I wanted to capture the sunlight reflecting off the leaves high in the trees.

Process of Acrylic Lemon Apple and Pepper Still Life

This is the finish work of a still I set up and painted in acrylic.  It is 11x14" done on watercolor paper.  It is a lemon, jalapeno pepper, and apple.

At this stage is the underpainting in which I used a brown acrylic wash to put down the values. I was was mapping out the dark and light values.  Basically this is the blueprint for the paint to follow on. The lighter tones had more water in the mix than the dark value. 

I began my still life painting with a simple line drawing at this point.  I used a sable brush to apply the lines.  The lighter value that dominates the entire paper was applied with a sponge brush.

SHAPE AND TEXTURE USED TO DIVIDE COMPOSITION

My Thoughts on "Splash"

I love creating abstract art.  It truly allows me to express my thoughts and ideas through the means of painting. This piece I entitled it "Splash" came from an inspiration to produce a design which uses shape to separate color with texture.  The blue depicts the water the gray the sky and the blocks of color represents a collection of buoies in aqua and yellow.  I purposely selected yellow in this piece to provide a redirection of the eye to move away the main focal point. Some of the materials I uesed was a palette knife and sable brush.  Also I used achieve the impesto appeareance for the blocks of color dividing the water from sky Liquitex matte super heavy gel.