How to Create Abstract Art Using an Intuitive Painting Process | Watercolors and Mixed Media
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2023
- Ah texture! It absolutely speaks to my creative soul and I cannot resist its invitation. In this week's video, I'm working with watercolor ground again, to create a textured abstract using earthy colors. Playing and experimenting like this helps to keep things fresh and interesting in my studio. I love doing it so much that I have just ordered myself some more watercolor ground.
#intuitive_watercolor_painting #mixed_media #abstract_watercolor
Here’s a list of the materials I used for this painting: (***I now have the ability to monetize my site. This means I can include links to the products I use and when you make a purchase using these links, I will get a small commission. You won't pay extra for doing this and you will help me earn a little bit of money along the way, so I can continue doing this work. Please note that I will only ever add links to products that I actually like and use. Thanks in advance!***)
* Watercolor paper (Stratmore, cold pressed - amzn.to/44Z8T29) - I cut my paper to about 6 x 8 inches
* Artist tape - amzn.to/3qvVWOk
* Plexi glass or a solid surface to tape paper to (I cut mine from an old window, but here's something similar - amzn.to/3NTpX2e)
* Water
* Paper towel
* Watercolor Ground - (Mine came from this little set: amzn.to/46Pd6qB. You can also buy it separate from the paint set -I just ordered it in this bigger format: amzn.to/3OBnI3P)
* Palette knife - amzn.to/45aHfzi
* Daniel Smith watercolors in Quinacridone Burnt Orange (amzn.to/3KBYoJW) and Neutral Tint ( amzn.to/45u6v3a)
* Kremer Pigmente watercolor in Gold Pearl and Buff Titanium: shop.kremerpigments.com/us/sh...
* Grumbacher Academy watercolors in Hooker's Green and Van Dyke Brown - amzn.to/47xwad9
* Winsor and Newton watercolors in Raw Sienna - amzn.to/3OSOhmu, and Sap Green - amzn.to/3KH8Vng
* Supervision watercolor in Gold Brown - amzn.to/3QEOkUn
* Round brushes in size 8 and 14 - amzn.to/45wDkg9
* Spray bottle for water - (I just reuse old ones (well rinsed) from hair products)
* Mop brush - amzn.to/3OCH7la
* Micro mini brush - amzn.to/3qwsbgh
* Black fountain pen by Pilot - amzn.to/3OXSDch
* Pentel Slicci extra fine tip pen - amzn.to/3QAtuFx
* Brush pen - amzn.to/45sKwtC
* Gesso - amzn.to/3QCcoXQ
* Latex glove for spreading paint
The music for this video was provided by the You Tube Audio library:
Thank you Jesse Gallagher for letting us use your wonderfully zen compositions! They are beautiful!
I recorded my video using my iPhone 12 and edited my video using iMovie.
My thumbnail was created using Canva.com. Many of its features are free and so easy to use!
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And most of all, thank you for watching! Have a great week and happy creating!
Gabrielle :) - Навчання та стиль
Very southwestern canyon-like! Fabulous!
I DIDN'T THINK I WOULD LIKE THIS ONE, AND I WAS RIGHT, I DON'T LIKE IT, I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S BEAUTIFUL, THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR TALENT WITH US
Thank you so much!! 😁❤️ your enthusiasm and kindness brings a big smile to my face! I appreciate it 🤗
Hello my friend, I'm sorry it's taken me so long to comment. I can not believe the texture and depth on this painting! To me it feels like I'm peering down at tall cliffs looking over a river. The rocks and crevices look real!! I was quite surprised you held back on the gold! 😂 Because of you I am learning to pay more attention to everything to get inspiration! 😊 Thank you for sharing with us again. I hope you have a nice relaxing weekend! Love and hugs! ☺️💖🤗
Hi Lori ❤️🤗 thank you so much for continuing to be so supportive and kind 💕 I’m absolutely loving this little journey I’m on with adding texture to my WC paintings! It’s so hard to hold back on the gold 😂 It’s good for me to be practicing this kind of restraint, I think 🤔 I hope life is treating you well my friend! Big hugs and lots of love being sent your way 💕🤗
I love your textured paintings!
Thank you so much Angela ❤️ They are so much fun to create! I'm so glad I tried using watercolor ground in this way ☺️
This is wonderful. I never knew what watercolor ground was…now I do. Thank you so much.
I'm so happy this was helpful to you! ☺️ You're very welcome! Thank you for watching ❤️
🤩🤩toujours des paillettes plein les yeux. Merci pour ce partage.
Ça me réjouit de vous lire! Merci ❤️🤗
Wow! I love this. I don’t think I’d ever tire of studying it. Thank you ❤
You are so welcome! ❤️ I’m so happy you enjoy this one as much as you do! ☺️
Such refreshing art, thank you for creating this.
My pleasure 😊 Thank you for your kindness ❤️
I loved watching you paint this, I think it’s one of my favorites that you have made. The textures are great and I’m in love with the color scheme. I cheered each time you added green, it was a wonderful compliment. I am inspired to try one of my own! Thank you, Gabrielle 💕
Hi Donna ❤️🤗 Thank you for bringing a smile to my face with your kind words! Adding the green spoke to my soul as well - it's my favorite color and yet for some reason, it's a color I struggle with using more in my artwork. I'm working on changing that ☺️ Happy creating my friend! 🎨
Oh my, that looks amazing!
Thank you ❤️☺️
Stunning!!!😍😍😍
Thank you ❤️☺️
It's beautiful, thank you for sharing!
Thank you too! ❤️🤗 I'm happy to share!
Turned out so beautiful!
Thank you Monique ❤️🤗
Turned out really cool. I'll have to give this a go. Thanks for the video!
Thank you so much! ❤️ I'm happy you're feeling inspired to try this as well ☺️
Love this, colours are beautiful. Thankyou! Yes will definitely try this!
Yay!!! So glad you're feeling inspired to create! ❤️ Thank you for your kindness 🤗
Beautiful! Love the textures!
Thank you so much ❤️🤗
So much inspiration Gabrielle! Thank you for sharing your ground technique. Love this. ❤
So glad! I love sharing my ideas and my heart smiles knowing you're feeling inspired to paint too ❤️ Thank you ☺️
Love that painting.
Thank you so much ☺️
I've just found you and I'm in ❤. This piece spoke to me. I see it as terrain. A mountain ridge/crest. The shadows make it look like that. Can't wait to see how you finish it! Lol😂. Still watching.
Welcome aboard! ☺️ I’m so glad you decided to join me! Thank you for your kind words ❤️
Love this painting….I just flew over the Grand Canyon several days ago and this painting reminds me of some of the pictures from the window of the plane my husband took that I was excited to try to paint. This technique of creating texture using watercolor ground should prove to be a wonderful option for me to explore! I love the way the layers of color added such depth to the textures, too. I need to try to remember how you take your time because I tend to get a bit impatient. I think my whole life has been an extended course in learning how to be more patient! Anyway - thank you for this gorgeous, textured, colorful and beautiful creation! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much for your kind words Sue ❤️🤗 Flying over the Grand Canyon would definitely provide lots of inspiration and I'm feeling excited for you to get painting 😆 Learning to be more patient has certainly been a journey for me too! Until a few years ago, I absolutely avoided painting with oil paints because of their slow drying time. I just couldn't bear the thought of going slower. Watercolors and fluid acrylics have taught me the power of patience and also letting go of expectations. Life is a wonderful teacher, isn't it! Thank you for sharing and thank you for being here with me 💕
I love this!!! ❤️
Thank you!!! ❤️
Wow! Love the textures. What great new ideas to try.
Thanks so much! 😊 I'm happy you enjoyed this!
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Merci beaucoup ma tante Diane 💕🤗 Bonne fin de semaine xoxo
Bonne fin de semaine a toi aussi. XO@@gabrielleannacormierart
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Amazing❣️❣️❣️❣️
Thank you so much ☺️💕
Lovely, I love that quinacridone gold deep. Another fabulous piece! Thanks Anna 😊❤
Thank you so much! ❤️ As I read your comment I realized that I misspoke in my video - it's actually quinacridone burnt orange and not the deep gold. I'll double check my video description to make sure I got it right there. But, both these colors are beautiful and some of my favorites to use ☺️
Very nice!
Thank you ❤️
Wow!!! This is awesome! Such fabulous texture, and the addition of the green paint was inspired, love it! 🫶🥰
Thanks so much 😊❤️ I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 🤗
no accident ii get to watch an angel create one...
Awe ❤️🤗 Judy YOU are an angel in my life! Thank you for being you 🫶
😍 stunning!
Thank you!! 😊❤️
Thank you so much Gabrielle, I really really enjoyed watching you create this amazing and stunning piece. It felt as though I could grab hold of those textured pieces in the painting. Fabulous And Fantastic Too. Please stay safe and well too xxx Mags ❤❤❤❤
Hi Mags ❤️🤗 Once again, I can't help but smile when I read your kind words! Thank you for being a bright light in this world ✨💕 Lots of love heading your way 🤗
I just love the textures and how they inter grated with the colours. The warm colours are beautiful. Thank you again for your inspiration.
My pleasure 😊 I'm having fun and I'm happy to share this with you! Thank you for making the time to share your kind words with me Julie ❤️
I have similar urges to paint intuitively. I love that you create so many different organic images.
Thank you for making the time to watch and connect ❤️
I was fascinated as the figure of a runner winning a race emerged and was wondering if you even saw it. Towards the end of the video you turned the paper a quarter turn and didn't paint the impression of an upraised head so I don't think you did. It's beautiful.
Thank you for your kind words and for sharing your perspective ❤️ I actually did see this as well 😉 It reminded me a bit of the painting I made in this video:
ua-cam.com/video/xfLsS_6vqHA/v-deo.html. So, I wanted to switch things up a bit and explore the landscape angle. It’s fun what can emerge during the painting process 🥰
Such gorgeous color! I think picking a color palette is your superpower! I'm glad that the texture brought you so much joy, it's beautiful. I wonder if you could post a photo here or on instagram of your full studio palette. I'd like to duplicate it as close as I can with what I have, for when I try to paint along with you. Thanks for this and all of your videos. C 🌻
Thank you so much for your generous and kind words 🥰 I would love to do that for you!! Instagram might be the easiest place to do it, but maybe I could create a short video where I go over the colors in my palette. I list the ones I use for each video (in my video description), but I realize that a person would have to go through many of my descriptions to piece it all together. I'm going to give this some thought and see what the best solution would be. Stay tuned! And thanks for painting with me ❤️🤗
@@gabrielleannacormierart Thank you so very much! I really do love and admire your color choices, and it's one of the many things I need to work on. A lot of my paintings end up being the same few colors. 😂
I just love this painting with the colours and especially the texture it’s given me lots of inspiration thank you.
Awesome!! ❤️ I'm smiling from ear to ear reading your comment! Thank you for your kind words and for making the time to connect 🤗 Happy creating! 🎨
Such beautiful art you do! I've had DSs watercolor ground in my art supplies for quite awhile, but didn't quite understand how to use it. Until I watched you use the dot stencil. That opened my mind and this video expanded my horizons considerably. Thank you so much for sharing your stunning works of art❤
I'm so glad my videos have been helpful to you! ☺️ And thank you so much for your kind words 💕 My watercolor ground was just sitting in my supplies for a while as well as the first time or two I used it (for it originally intended purpose), I wasn't all that impressed. It's so much fun to have a new purpose for this product and I'm happy to share it with you. Happy creating 🎨🤗
Hello Gabrielle, thank you for another inspiring painting.The texture is brilliant..and looks fun to do. I was amazed just how much the perspective changed when you turned the picture around… and then the inky shadows and white / gold highlights transformed it again. A reminder to me to keep my mind flexible with my own work. Really enjoyed this thank you so much!
It has taken so long to type this as my keyboard is playing up and keeps putting in lots of random letters! Hope it is fixed by next week!
☹️ ⌨️🔨 B x 💫
Oh my goodness Bernice! Working with a malfunctioning keyboard is frustrating for sure! Thank you for working through that frustrating experience to share your kind words with me ❤️🤗 I'm having so much fun playing with the watercolor ground!! It makes the whole process intriguing from beginning to end for me 💕 Sending you great big hugs and wishes for a quick resolution to your keyboard issues 🤗✨
Hello Beautiful, I’m so happy it’s Wednesday ❤I really like the texture you added to the painting with the white paint. My mind is flying with ideas Inspiration is always a rush. Thank you. I had a fun thought you should draw creatures that are Colly and Wobblies😝😝I was so touched when you said you could look at the painting all day liking your own work is wonderful 🎉Is there anyway to send you a letter? Do you have a PO Box?Jeremiah31:3
Hello sweet friend ❤️🤗 I'm so glad Wednesday is a happy day for you! It is for me too ☺️ Thank you as always for sharing your kind words with me! 💕 I am having so much fun creating using my watercolors over textures! (As an FYI - I will talk a little bit more about my collywobbles in next weeks video 😉😉) My email address is gabrielleannacormierart@gmail.com - I'd love to hear from you! 🤗💕
A great demo. What kind of ink used in the brush pen and nib pen pkease.
Thank you! ☺️ The ink in my fountain pen is this one amzn.to/3Lg61WV and the ink in my brush pen is this one amzn.to/3EwaPUo
Excellent! what fixative do you use after?
Thanks ❤️ I have a few different spray fixatives I like to use. Generally I prefer to use a matte product over my watercolors. Both Krylon and Winsor and Newton make ones that also offer UV protection. ☺️
I think I missed it. What is it abstracted from. It's lovely piece don't get me wrong, but I'm not sure what the starting idea is.
Hi ☺️ The inspiration for this painting is nature - mostly its colors and also some of the many textures you can find in the outdoors. Thank you for making the time to watch and connect!
Another comment..any chance of seeing you work with your acrylics??
Yes, there's always a chance! ☺️ I posted a few when I first started my YT channel, a couple of years ago - maybe it's time to create some new content with acrylics too - Thank you for the inquiry 🤗
Did you stretch the paper first? And is it 100% cotton?
Hi ☺️ No, I generally do not stretch my paper. I prefer to tape it to a rigid surface and since I let it dry fully before removing the tape, it’s usually good to prevent buckling. The paper I used for this painting is Strathmore cold pressed and not 100% cotton as far as I know. I hope this helps!
Qould that be the sMe as ( unbleached titanium ?)
Hi Audrey ☺️❤️ If you're referring to the watercolor ground (and I do mean ground not grout 😉), it would probably best be compared to a modeling paste. Watercolor ground is a medium used to make non porous surfaces act more like watercolor paper. It doesn't work exactly like watercolor paper, but I love to use it to create textures in my paintings.
Is that called ( grout or ground ? ) im asuming its called grout yet you have it writen as ground and since i can not zoom onto the product for s orrect spelling im asking you. Im sure ot gonna buy that kit just for that ine thing. Thanks
The product is indeed called watercolor ground. You don't have to buy the little paint kit, you can get the ground separately: amzn.to/462aQwe. I hope this helps! Thank you for reaching out ☺️❤️
I don’t know what watercolor ground is. Can you tell me?
Sure! WC ground is basically a medium (or primer) that you can apply to a variety of different surfaces to make them more suitable for watercolors. For that use in particular, I can't say I have found it to work really well. Watercolor paper is definitely more porous and absorbant. But, when I use it in combination with watercolor paper, to create texture, I have so far found it to be pretty awesome. I love adding it to create the textures I want, but I do make sure not to cover the paper entirely because I want my watercolors to still be able to interact with the paper. I hope this helps! ☺️