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Nowadays they are readily incorporated in many different genres that are decorating although it use to be that paintings were correlated with a modern style of decorating. Currently, stores such as Pottery Barn, Wisteria, and Ballard Designs all offer abstract paintings to their customers (and they are not inexpensive).

Do you love the look of paintings? Then you are in luck--this post will teach you how you can create your own abstract masterpiece! There's something very personal and rewarding about decorating a room with artwork you created with your own hands (and heart).

I am not an artist by trade however I have managed to make a paintings my home. I needed wall art for supporting the couch and recently re-decorated my room. A large abstract painting was just what the space was calling for.

Over on Instagram, where I discuss a lot of behind the scenes and process, I was asked by someone for my'secrets' when it comes to how to create an abstract painting.

Firstly, I found that kind of humorous up until recently I did not really'get' or love making art that was abstract. I had one foot firmly planted even if I did wildly on the canvas from it. I've taken two abstract painting courses, and I didn't think it was for me, while I loved both.

Second, I suddenly realised that my work recently has been getting more and more abstract. They've been loosening up, and it began with the landscapes that were beachy and fragmenting, to the point where I now have a few'nearly abstracts' and several fully abstract paintings. I didn't pick abstract -- I thought I did not like it and could do it -- it just started happening.

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Use a reference image

This might sound counterintuitive, but actually having a specific point helps me a lot, especially as someone coming from a background. I do not always use one, but sometimes I like to have one of my own photographs to hand, or something I discovered on Pinterest from this board, so I've got a principle to follow in terms of a composition that already works.

It's more of a springboard, and it doesn't actually matter what the photo's subject is; after beginning, the reference is usually abandoned by me soon. It only helps get things moving.

Have a focal point

It doesn't need to be anything recognisable, but having a place for the eye to begin or end as it wanders around the canvas helps a painting'make sense' and feel pleasing to look at. Generally speaking you want the focal point to be off centre, for the same reason.

In this one, the enormous white loop at the top functions to draw the eye in the lower half to the horizon from the' path'. It's not an point but it enables the eye to travel, which is what the eye would like to do!

Stay aware of values

That is not, while there are definitely abstracts out there with very little value range that are absolutely beautiful. It's harder in a way, because you have much less to work with, so you need to be that much more confident and practised. Don't let that dissuade you from having a go though!

A range of values may produce a painting feel without and shallow anything meaningful to say. It can confuse the viewer if there is not enough of a pathway for the eye to follow.

Remove them and I like to begin with a lot of darks. Because you just keep going until things start working together adding and removing is one of the easiest and most forgiving strategies to build a painting.

This is valid advice for any painting; the more you do it the easier it colorful abstract painting becomes to instantly see what is out of balance. Balance doesn't mean everything's equivalent or looking the same -- that is not interesting for the eye and ironically tends to mean it's out of balance -- it implies that all of the parts of the painting work together and within the frame of the four borders.

Edges are as what you put inside them as important. Create a imbalance they can help anchor the painting, or suggest more going on'off stage'. Keep your eye on them as you paint and do not let your point get floating at the centre.

See how in this one, a couple of these articles are coming in from the right, and on the left part of the bud is currently disappearing off the edge. It would not look right if I'd not had anything touching the edges.