I’ve been reading The Art of Abstract Painting, by Rolina van Vliet. It’s an interesting book, and guides you through a few different ways of taking an image as a starting point and working it in the abstract. It seems like an interesting technique to use for designing tapestries. (Just in time for the class!)
I started with this watercolor:
None of the quick studies I did are anything I particularly like, which is fine, as that isn’t the point. Rather, it’s the difference between the last image, and the original watercolor, the way there seems to be almost no connection between them, that really interests me:
I thought the progression was really interesting and cool!
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Thanks, but I probably won’t quit my day job!
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Did you do this on the computer or by hand?
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All by hand. Very rough and quick. In all honesty, I have no idea how to use any of the iPad/Mac art programs!
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