Best online painting tutorials for abstract art only
May 7, 2017 5:05 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for some great abstract art painting tutorials similar to the MoMa series "Inside the Studio". What are your favorites?
I'm looking for YouTube tutorials for abstract painting styles, from painters like Yayoi Kusama, Rothko, Pollack, etc. I'm still learning, so there are probably great painters I don't know that I like yet. If there's a similar series on not-quite-so-famous painters, I would appreciate that too.
Specifically, I'm looking for videos on how exactly they did their work -- not biographies, artistic interpretations, or cultural critiques. Instead, I'd like to learn about paint mixing, brush strokes, time to dry, etc.
Anything else you can think of to help a budding abstract artist would be great.
I'm looking for YouTube tutorials for abstract painting styles, from painters like Yayoi Kusama, Rothko, Pollack, etc. I'm still learning, so there are probably great painters I don't know that I like yet. If there's a similar series on not-quite-so-famous painters, I would appreciate that too.
Specifically, I'm looking for videos on how exactly they did their work -- not biographies, artistic interpretations, or cultural critiques. Instead, I'd like to learn about paint mixing, brush strokes, time to dry, etc.
Anything else you can think of to help a budding abstract artist would be great.
Instead, I'd like to learn about paint mixing, brush strokes, time to dry, etc.
I guess you're thinking oils or acrylics.
If you've any interest in water media, most notably watercolor, I'd suggest carefully following Handprint's 'laying a wash' tutorial here - start by skimming and following the illustrations and then read the text in a series of deeper passes as you build up the technique and vocabulary.
https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/tech24.html
Handprint's color theory tutorial looks good as well.
Just pick up a couple tubes of artist's quality (not student quality) paint, say a neutralizing compliment like burnt sienna and ultramarine, and some good paper (not the cheap stuff).
For oils, my personal interests always bend towards imaginative realism, so I strongly suggest the video-based course: French Academic Painting Workshop by Fernando Freitas.
(Monet, Picasso, Klimt, and so on had this sort of academic training, and Van Gogh returned to it again and again.)
It's not what you asked for, but learning to do a copy of an academic oil painting will drill you on color and materials, paint mixing, brush strokes, time to dry, etc. ... There's just nowhere to hide until you get it.
posted by sebastienbailard at 12:38 AM on May 11, 2017
I guess you're thinking oils or acrylics.
If you've any interest in water media, most notably watercolor, I'd suggest carefully following Handprint's 'laying a wash' tutorial here - start by skimming and following the illustrations and then read the text in a series of deeper passes as you build up the technique and vocabulary.
https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/tech24.html
Handprint's color theory tutorial looks good as well.
Just pick up a couple tubes of artist's quality (not student quality) paint, say a neutralizing compliment like burnt sienna and ultramarine, and some good paper (not the cheap stuff).
For oils, my personal interests always bend towards imaginative realism, so I strongly suggest the video-based course: French Academic Painting Workshop by Fernando Freitas.
(Monet, Picasso, Klimt, and so on had this sort of academic training, and Van Gogh returned to it again and again.)
It's not what you asked for, but learning to do a copy of an academic oil painting will drill you on color and materials, paint mixing, brush strokes, time to dry, etc. ... There's just nowhere to hide until you get it.
posted by sebastienbailard at 12:38 AM on May 11, 2017
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