Abstract Horse Painting by Laurie Pace: art lessons

Monday, November 18, 2013

Monday Art Lesson with Laurie Pace, and register for free Horse Painting by Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2013.

Combing Elements to create a Painting through color and composition.

This Monday Lesson is about combing more elements. using color to create movement on the surface of this small canvas, I have no intent of what will be painted here. I literally am basing the color application on good composition and movement along with balance.

This is a small 9 x 12 inch board canvas and I am working the undercoating with acrylics.

After the surface is dry, I began to use my finger in more wet acrylic paint and began to push around the surface trying to mold in my mind what I wanted to form on the composition. As you know I paint a lot of horses so of course that is what came to mind. See if you can line these up to note where I saw the movement to create this piece. If I looked long enough, I might have flipped the painting and created a floral piece.

After securing a horse in mind I use more finger painting to form things up and then it was the palette knife I reached for. The layers of color came together with thick swipes of paint.

Journey West

9 x 12 inches Oil on Canvas.

Since this is lesson Monday, how about we make this a 'give away'? I cannot ship it for the next week as it is wet, but if you want to be included in the drawing for this painting, email me by clicking HERE.

Include in the message line Monday Lesson Giveaway so I do not miss it.

On Wednesday night I will pull a name from those that email me and the next week I will get the painting in the mail.

Make sure you register to win this free

contemporary horse painting today.

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. Psalm 119:105

Laurie Pace

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Monday, November 11, 2013

Art Lesson on line and color by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

Art Lesson using Line and Color

This week I want to work on an exercise to loosen your thoughts and inspire your creativity. Painting is ahead but I want some foundation and work done before doing a lot of painting. You need to be using all the elements and having full grasp of different mediums at the same time.

If I gave you the math problem of 8 + 3 = N, you know how to solve for N. But how many ways can you get there? That is limited. If I give you the art problem of Line + Color = N , N is limitless. You can do this with Paint, you can do this with crayons, you can do this with markers, you can do this with craypas or watercolors or anything. You can even collage using lines and color.

There is no given subject, no given rules or guidelines. Here is a painting I did in 2008. Gives you an idea to loosen you up with thoughts and plan a composition of maybe a vase with flowers...or a cityscape with the buildings in black and white and the sky in colors.

Hard Wired

Matthew 6:21 - Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.