Dean Nimmer

Creating Abstract Art

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Celebrate your own nonconformist place in the world of art.
Going far beyond standard notions of developing an abstract “style” or particular “look,” Creating Abstract Art unleashes the numerous possibilities that abound in your creative subconscious. Familiar obstacles such as “I don't know what to paint” or “How do I know if this is good?” are easily set aside as you explore fun exercises such as connecting dots, automatic drawing, shadow hunting, working with haiku poetry paintings and much more. So turn off the noise in your head, follow your own instincts and delight in what emerges! 40 exercises exploring original ideas and inventive techniques for making abstract art. Projects can be done in any order and with nearly any materials--start working right away on any project that grabs your attention! 50 contemporary artists share diverse work and viewpoints on the process of working abstractly. Write your own artistic license and start Creating Abstract Art your way, today!
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322 printed pages
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
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  • svetlanabardatchovahas quoted6 years ago
    Create twenty landscape sketches from places you’ve lived in the past ten years.
    Use only three colors in twenty abstract compositions.
    Using the clock in your bedroom as the subject, create at least twenty sketches.
    Use only diagonal marks in at least twenty sketches.
    What’s under the earth’s crust in at least twenty sketches.
    Keep improving one drawing, painting, sculpture or photograph in at least twenty successive stages.
    Abstract thermometers in at least twenty sketches.
    The texture of rattlesnake skin in at least twenty sketches.
    Where the Wild Things Are in at least twenty sketches.
    Close your eyes for five minutes and in twenty sketches, draw what you see moving around.
    Put a dot on a piece of paper and make twenty sketches that abstractly explain where the dot is going.
    Yell as loud as you can in your basement! After each yell, wait ten seconds and pause for five seconds, then yell again five times and pause in the same way! Make twenty sketches from that experience.
    Thinking about the life of a scorpion, make twenty sketches of the trails it leaves in the dust in the hot desert sand.

    CONTINUOUS DRAWING SERIES, 144' (44M) IN LENGTH
    Larry Hayden
    Sumi ink on paper
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