Leisure Painter

Abstraction

Mixed media

Learning objectives

Working abstractly stimulates experimentation, discovery, creativity and the activation of your talent. The total freedom of action adds an extra dimension to your experience of painting. Even if you do not have any drawing or painting experience, you can learn the expressive abstract method without any complicated techniques. Abstract painting paves the way to originality and individuality.

There are countless ways to begin creating an abstract. You can draw an object, simplify that drawing then draw it again from the simplified version, making it even more simplified; or paint something in vertical and horizontal brushstrokes and see what picture emerges. A fun way to create an abstract landscape is by placing a thick line of

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