

The greatest exploration an artist makes is one that’s without rules. Learning how to abstract paint is a great starting point for your artistic forays and is a sure way to guarantee that your work has compositional power, visual interest, and always stays exciting for you as the artist.
But learning how to abstract paint doesn’t always come easy, which is where our free eBook comes in. In this free eBook, you’ll learn how to paint abstract art and understand what kind of abstract art ideas can lead to fulfilling and beautiful paintings!
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Inside you’ll first find the essential abstract painting techniques, starting with how to warm up your mind and body to the idea of how to paint abstract. This is a great way to shake your self-consciousness and to focus on gesture, color, visual rhythms, and more.
You’ll also discover how to create automatic drawings, which train you to dwell in the present moment and not so much on the end result. This is one of the most powerful abstract painting techniques because it is all about what you pull out of yourself and your creative psyche, and not so much on what kind of marks you think you should be making.
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This free guide also includes an exercise on erasing and deleting marks—going back in with erasers to shape and attune your work in ways that may seem awkward at first but will enable you to see your work in a new way.
Automatic abstract painting

You’ll also find a chapter on automatic painting—how exciting and fruitful this kind of work can be, but also how to train your eye and manage your natural inclination toward “more” in order to recognize when a painting is complete.
When you’re ready, we’ll teach you how to dovetail abstract art with representational art. For many artists, it’s this combination that leads to the most satisfying art-making.
You’ll also come to discover that learning how to abstract paint is a matter of realizing that potential subject matters are all around us. Plus, there are strategies for seeing what is all around us in abstract terms.
Abstract painting techniques that you’ll learn include:
- Using high contrast photos
- Looking to nature
- Taking a broad view
- Words and descriptions can yield powerful visions
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Finally, you will discover how to disrupt any entrenched ways of working to get the most out of your studio time when you decide to create abstract art.
This includes looking at your work and playing through ideas of what is “good” and “bad.” You can also create an abstract alter ego—an artistic second self to help you realize and truly own who you are as an abstract artist.
Don’t wait! Learn about abstract painting techniques today!
For those artists who want explore how to abstract paint, this is the right resource guide to begin with. It will show you how abstract art ideas are born and how to make them the best they can be no matter the medium you work in.
Abstract acrylic painting, abstract oil painting, watercolor abstraction and drawing abstraction—these are all applicable to the techniques and tips you will discover in this free guide. Enjoy!
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