The Artist's Journey®: Resolving A Gestural Painting Part 1

Brought to you by The Artist's Journey- Best selling, Award winning, Top 100 Creativity Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999750410. The Artist's Journey®: Refining and resolving abstract painting 'starts' is a daily process for artists. In this painting I explore developing further an underlying organic grid substructure to contrast and contain the curvilinear continuous lines. FREE QUIZ: What's Your #1 Artist Archetype? Some artists create amazing art with ease, while others struggle year after year to express themselves. It's all based on their Artist Archetype. Take the quiz to find out: https://on.artistsjourney.com/quiz-yt TRANSCRIPT: Hi there, we've been talking a lot lately about going back into paintings and this was one of my starts. I like it quite a lot, but I feel like it needs something more and this is kind of what happens a lot of times when you're living with your paintings and you might notice something. And one thing I'm noticing about this painting is that I feel like I want more of an underlying sub-structure underneath this. I want some darks threading through that would connect with some of these darks in the painting that would be a contrast to the curvilinear and also to this wild energy. It would hold the painting together. So that's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go in and make some moves and then get out and probably live with it for awhile and see where it goes. So I thought I'd just show you what I'm going to do here. Basically, I'm using van Dyck Brown and a big shaper here that I got at a print making shop in Santa Cruz... No, actually in San Francisco. I see I'm going to need to tape the paper down a little bit better because it's moving. Okay. So just do a few moves there. And now I'm looking at it. I'm seeing this moving here and noticing the movement in the painting with the darks and I'm actually thinking I might want to put in some Paynes gray and bring a little bit of a dark blue in near the blue gray here and kind of run with that, next to that brown because we've got a light blue in here. I just thought that might be rich to add that into some of the browns. So by putting the dark down here, I'm kind of weighting the painting down at the bottom. I think that can be quite powerful to do is to kind of weight the bottom of the painting with a dark passage. I don't know what's going to happen and I"m just working intuitively. I'm adding some darks. I can always go back in and knock it back, but I'm wanting this kind of underlying structure that can happen with the dark. Now I might want to knock this back here so that's not connected. These are just like very quick things I see. I notice when I look at it. a lot of times I'll move in with a marker to kind of break into the moves I just made because if you go into a painting it can look like it's taped on or tacked on when you go back into it. So you want to kind of integrate it together. So these are some quick moves here that I'm making and I think I'm going to stop here and live with it and then come back. So I'll see you soon. EXPLORE: SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube Channel Check out more videos in the Playlist:    • Abstract Art Paintings & Demos   JOIN THE CONVERSATION! ► Join our community of artists and creatives in the Facebook Group →   / artistsjourneystudioden   ► Instagram →   / the.artists.journey   ► Pinterest →   / drnancyhillis   FREE VIDEO WORKSHOP: The #1 Secret to Creating Authentic Abstract Paintings You Love! https://on.artistsjourney.com/webinar-yt FREE AUDIOBOOK: Go to https://on.artistsjourney.com/audiobo... and Grab the audiobook version of Nancy’s Best selling, Award winning, Top 100 Creativity Book “The Artist’s Journey®: Bold Strokes to Spark Creativity” - FREE with Audible Trial - WELCOME TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL! I'll be teaching you how to loosen up and open creative channels so you can express your deepest, most personal and authentic self in your art. Essentially we're talking about exploring, experimenting, searching and finding your way as you create...and ultimately expressing YOU in your art. PLEASE SHARE THIS VIDEO! Thank you! #abstractart #creativity #painting