Intuitive Abstract Painting Susan Farrell Technique

STEP #1
Acrylic Paints:        Red, Orange and Yellow  /  Warm colors

There are 7 layers to get to the FINAL.....This is my first step.  Just random dabs of 3 colors.
When I am finished I will post the final painting.  This is a technique by Susan Farrell and I am taking her Serendipity online class.   I have watched all of the videos and then went back to Step #1  and am working  my way through to??????????   Either a beauty or a fail.  Each persons' painting will be different based on colors, stencils used and placement.  The idea is to NOT copy but to produce your own intuitive pieces.   A far cry from patterned traced patterns with instructions as to what colors to use, brushes etc.  These new designs are totally one of a kind intuitively painted by intuitive painters. Wish me luck.

I am working on the last couple of steps.  Would you ever have any idea that were I am ending up began where I started?  I sure wouldn't......  I know where my mistakes are .... how they happened and what to do and not do on the next piece.  A  lot of fun....but each step has to dry so a minimum of a week from start to finish IF.... you work on it every day....

Have about 3 different ideas for the next pieces.... One spiritual, one oceanic, and one industrial.

For some reason I had to do this stencil Black.  It is called "Drip Face".  I did it first white and didn't like it and felt compelled to do this black.  The piece is not done...there are several areas that need
"more".  To me the black seemed to push the white stencils closest to it back giving more depth to the painting.   I am curious as to how this piece will finish up....I have NO idea....   I have been slow with these last steps mainly because I don't know where I am going..... I am not lost just the need to stop and rest a bit.  Since this is my first piece I will be trying a few different things....  Many of the stencils are done with modeling paste (for texture).  A couple of them will require a tiny bit of sanding.  I have used a Gold paste also and want to do a couple more stencils in the gold and a couple more black....

I thought I was done but there are a couple of areas at the bottom I want to push back a bit using a color and also to foil a bit more but basicall it is done.

I can hardly wait to do another...this one will be themed ocea/sea so tonight I got stencils pulled so that tomorrow night I will be ready to go.  Since this was not a gallery wrap canvas I edged the picture area with copper foil as well as the sides so that it can be hung with no frame.  I am pleased with the effect and the painting.   I learned a lot...

Charlie Brown

4-20-2020

Hi,
My name is Charlie Brown and I have lived with my new Mom and Dad for a little over a month and have been in what they keep saying is Quarantine  They don't have any idea what a real quarantine is.

Mom says I am stubborn, have a mind of my own,a tendency to do exactly what I am told NOT to do,
and  lifting your leg wherever you find a corner is NOT appropriate.  I have never really had anyone I
had to "mind:.  Things are definitely different here....

Mom gives me baths and tries to make me look better but I really think that I need a groomer.  I have no idea when I was pampered last....  I hold REAL still for Mom when she cuts because I KNOW she doesn't have any idea what she is doing....I am not going to move a muscle while she has this sharp  things in hand and another that buzzes.  .I still remember when she snipped my ear the first time.

I sure am glad that I live here....but I am just a dog from an abused home and I don't know a lot..
so I get slaps to the butt, a talking to, but I know tomorrow I will forget and do it again.  It is just a
habit; what I have always done.

It sure is a big world out there.  Mom sometimes takes me with her when she goes to town,, and
Dad takes me for rides in his Jeep.  I don't know where to look first there is so much to see up
here vs down there when all I really see is feet and legs...never who they belong to.

New Painting

This is a new piece I have just started.

Photo #1.  Slip slap background with paints on a canvas board.  (I used all of the Color Shift Paints with the exclusion of black)

Next I glued onto the painted canvas one of the specialty papers I sell in my Etsy store.  This one is so sheer and one of my favorites.
 
**As you tilt this canvas the colors change slightly from purple to blue, green to gold, etc.  I love
      the effect.  I also like the strings that are randomly apparent in the paper.**
My small travel hair dryer was "just the ticket" for drying and shrinking the paper slightly to remove
the trapped air bubbles that didn't disperse with my roller.

Next  (I think)  is Stencil #1.   I have chosen 3 different floral stencils but know that can quickly
change.  My thoughts are back to "color"....