Details, Details... - Original Abstract Painting by Texas Contemporary Artist Filomena de Andrade Booth

 

I put together a video of my latest painting, "Opposing Forces" and thought you might like to see some of the close-up details.

Hope you enjoy it!

I plan to start working on a new canvas tomorrow and will take some pictures as I go along.  I've gotten many comments from other artists who enjoyed watching the development of this painting...stay tuned.

Original abstract painting
by
Texas Contemporary Abstract Artist
Filomena de Andrade Booth

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Opposing Forces - Original Abstract Painting by Texas Contemporary Artist Filomena de Andrade Booth

Opposing Forces

36"x40"x1.5"

Acrylic on Canvas

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In my last post I chronicled the journey of  my painting process.  The painting was a failure, at least I was not happy with it.  Thankfully, I don't give up easily, so I applied a heavy coat of gesso to the canvas and scraped through the wet gesso to create even more texture.

When the canvas was dry, I started layering more paint and scrubbing out areas to reveal the underlying layers of color.  Finally, after several hours of work, I was finally satisfied with the result.

Thank you for all the encouraging comments while I wrestled with this painting.  This process is something that we artists deal with every day.  Some days everything just seems to fall into place, but other days you feel like tearing your hair out.  But, I feel that every struggle results in learning new lessons.  And, as they say, when you stop learning, you're dead!

Original abstract painting
by
Texas Contemporary Abstract Artist
Filomena de Andrade Booth

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In Progress -Days 6-8 - Original Abstract Painting by Texas Contemporary Artist Filomena de Andrade Booth

If you're following my progress with this painting, you'll notice that I painted over the previous day's work.  I decided that it was a bit too bland and needed a punch of bright red...ok, so far so good.

 Now I continued to break up the larger spaces with more color and line.  At this point, I stopped painting and was satisfied with my progress.  My good friend, who is also an artist, said that she saw a horse in the painting.  I thought that since this is intuitive painting, then this must be the direction the painting wanted to go. 

I'll spare you the "horse". 

I continued to paint and suddenly discovered

that the painting wanted to be a garden of roses, so I went with that for a while....

So, I continued working in the "rose garden" and when I stepped away, I hated it.






Tomorrow I'll post the rest of this journey, stay tuned.

Original abstract painting
by
Texas Contemporary Abstract Artist
Filomena de Andrade Booth

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Day 5 - In Progress - Original Abstract Painting by Texas Contemporary Artist Filomena de Andrade Booth

Day 5

I'm still adding more glazed layers of color.  I decided to lighten some areas by adding white to the glazed but may deepen some of the colors as I go along.  This painting is a journey and I never really know what lies around the corner.  Stay with me as I continue to develop this painting.

Day 6 coming up!

Original abstract painting
by
Texas Contemporary Abstract Artist
Filomena de Andrade Booth

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Day 4 - In Progress - Original Abstract Painting by Texas Contemporary Artist Filomena de Andrade Booth

Day 4

More color glazes help build up texture and allow the underpainting to show through.  As I study the painting, I can see that I still have a long way to go.  I really like areas of the painting but have to continue to experiment with adding and subtracting to pull everything together.

Day 5 coming up.

Original abstract painting
by
Texas Contemporary Abstract Artist
Filomena de Andrade Booth

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Day 3 - In Progress - Original Abstract Painting by Texas Contemporary Artist Filomena de Andrade Booth

Day 3

In this picture, you can see that I've started breaking up the large areas with more glazes that I made by mixing the colors with my mixture of slow-dry medium, clear mixing glaze and gloss medium.  Before each layer drys completely, I continued to splash water and wipe out the color to expose underlying color and texture.  I also added more line work with the black crayon and did a little scraping with a palette knife.  

Day 4 coming up next...stay tuned.

Original abstract painting
by
Texas Contemporary Abstract Artist
Filomena de Andrade Booth

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Day 2 - In Progress - Original Abstract Painting by Texas Contemporary Artist Filomena de Andrade Booth

Day 2

This is the result of the second day's work on this painting. I started by laying in color over the original "gridwork" of day 1.  I used a mix of gloss medium, slow-dry medium and clear mixing glaze to create glazes of color and to help slow down the quick drying acrylics.  I also sprayed water on the still wet acrylic to help blend the colors.  In some areas, I wiped out color, exposing underlying color and marks from day 1.  As I worked, I continued to make more markings on the canvas with the black crayon.

The beauty of painting like this is that everything is a discovery and I never know where I'll end up.

Stay tuned for Day 3

Original abstract painting
by
Texas Contemporary Abstract Artist
Filomena de Andrade Booth

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