Painting Abstract

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

Positive ShapeNegative Shape

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Abstraction

ImpastoPainting with Knives

Smearing, like butter on toast

Flat, minimal and smooth

Double-Loading and SMEARING 2 COLORS TOGETHER

Thin LINES

hard edged PATTERNS

Press and lift, use the TENSION of the blade

SCRATCHING and scraping

Change the PRESSURE of your hand, create thick and thin in flowing motion

Eddie Fitzgerald

Joan Mitchell

Tom O’Neill

fluid abstraction

Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler

Mark Rothko

Watercolors

1940-1947

Mark Rothko, watercolor

Mark Rothko, watercolor

Fred Martin

Ink on paper

1980-1985

Fred Martin

Fred Martin

Fred Martin