How to Energise your Art | Playful Abstract Painting Exercises & Ideas
In this video I share 2 exercises to re-energise the creative process, finding inspiration in unexpected places. The exercises explore painting to music, and taking inspiration from textiles.
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My Painting Playlist Artists:
Can I believe you - Fleet Foxes
A long way past from the past - Fleet Foxes
Follies Fixture - Ben Howard
Rookery - Ben Howard
What a Drag - Nathaniel Rateliff
Garden of Eden - Billie Marten
A Couple Things - Kate Bollinger
What to explore when painting music & sounds:
colour - how can you represent emotion through colours?
texture - how does the music sound - smooth, rough, jagged?
rhythm - drawing to the beat or syncopation
The simplest process for patchwork paintings:
To cut up 4 paintings (all the same size and shape) into quarters. Simply recompose with these squares until you have something totally new. You could then paint over this grid once the squares are taped back together.