There are no hard and fast rules for abstract painting. On the other hand, creating a rule or formula yourself and painting accordingly can bring rich dividends for you. The formula offers you a guide or framework to work within. Working according to a certain formula will help you to construct your composition perfectly or restrict the number of colours you use helping you to obtain wonderful results.

Before starting to paint abstract, you should choose between acrylic and oil paints. The earlier are odorless, they can be painted over in the case of any mistake and dry very quickly. The oil paints are the complete opposite to the acrylics. They have odor, take very long to dry and there is no remedy if you commit a mistake. With all that being mentioned, I would also encourage you to experiment and mix the two mediums together to see what kind of a result you can get from it.

One of the best sources of inspiration for the colour palette is the paint swatches available at local paint stores. They allow you to try out different patches adjacent to each other and most importantly in variety of combinations. You also do not have to undo a single tube in order to make your painting livelier.

Getting inspiration from colours of surrounding landscape for your abstract painting is a sensational idea as the nature never gets it wrong. In fact, the major part of the problems about your painting is resolved immediately if you get the colours complementing each other quite nicely. Painting colours in their full brightness and straight from the tube is the most common mistake committed by painters. You have to thoroughly think out the colour palette while considering the colours you should use.

Choose a poem or recall a favourite story and tune into the emotions created by them. Use these emotions to stimulate your imaginations and give clear vent to your ideas. You should not try to tell the story because you are painting abstract. On the contrary, concentrate on your responses and feelings and inspire yourself with textures, colours and paints.

Splatter painting is another brilliant technique to create great abstract paintings. However, the technique requires greater well protected working area. Just take a canvas and drench your brush with paint and shake it over the canvas. Depending upon the force applied by your wrist, the direction of the shake and amount of the paint, different shapes and patterns will appear on the canvas.

Most of the people get it wrong when the fall in the trap of thinking too much about the details of abstract painting. The painting can actually become lifeless if you concentrate on fine details and miss the more expensive, freer strokes during the process. The best method to overcome this problem is to use a long stick and exercise less control. This way, you will work freely and you will bring variety and charm in your painting.

You can create an exceptionally intriguing abstract painting by using a glass dropper to put some multi-coloured blobs on a paper or canvas. For that matter, you should use acrylic or poster paint diluted in water. Take a drinking straw and blow through it to disperse the paint unequally on the surface and also turn the page to change the direction in order to make different patterns and shapes by mixing the paint. This type of abstract painting is fun for both children and adult.

You can also use differently sized and multicolour cut outs of bright cards and papers to create a totally unique and enticing abstract college on white paper. You can even scan the college to create a normal image with lines and colours. You can achieve the final print by enlarging and enhancing the image using software like Photoshop.

We cannot deny the fact that colors play a really vital part in our day to day life. Any color can fix our bad mood where as there are colors that hurt our eyes and disturb us. The environment we are surrounded by effect us mainly by the colors it is made up of. The same rule applies for abstract art paintings. When we look at certain paintings we are moved by its intensity or touched by its positivity our soothed by its calmness. It is all because of the inter woven colors that deeply effect us. Here are some reasons for how different colors effect your acrylic abstract painting.

Colors communicate invisibly. There are certain feelings that a particular color can generate. Yellow color can generate a warmth and happiness in you. Blue is a color which is very deep, peaceful and supernatural. Green color provides you a comfort, peace and stillness. Black color is just too mystical and consuming. Red color fills you with liveliness and confidence. Whereas, white color is so tranquil and gives you a feeling of rest even at the sight of it. So the next time you are standing in front of an abstract painting, notice the particular emotions a specific color is generating, and you will be baffled to know how truly does it work.

The contrast of colors is what makes an abstract painting all the more special. Our eyes love to see contrast, it is how it observes every possible thing in the world. It gives us the ability to differentiate and transit between different elements of a painting. But let us not keep aside the power of greyscale and monotony. When you paint something in colors it is like depicting a person's cloth, but when you paint something in black and white you portray their souls.

Not just the color but its intensity also has a lot to do with your abstract painting. The more intense you feel a color is, the more deeply it empathize with you. It is said that the way to artist's heart go through his palette. So just have a look at all the abstract paintings you ever worked on, try to seek similar traits and you will be amazed to find how you overlooked your own self; reflected through the colors of the abstract paintings.

As an artist you will find yourself drawn towards a particular color. So feel free to use that particular color lavishly in your painting, because that color will represent 'Who you are' and 'What your abstract painting means' in the best possible way. You can be the one who has a thing for subtle colors because it is a choice that comes from inside you. If you use just bright colors than it can be because you cannot contain your sunny side. Don't suppress your inclination and force yourself to pick colors. Accept your color choices and let them lead you.

Above all, painting abstract gives you the liberty to color the sky red and paint the grass blue. No one can stop you from using a color against their established identity. Abstract artists use colors to paint their own wold, they cannot contain themselves in a world that limits them.

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