Abstract Art

Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world (Rudolph Arnheim, Visual Thinking).

In the first painting I used cardboard and scraped the paint both vertically and horizontally followed by stenciling a bird sitting on a branch (my blogging buddy gave me these stencils years ago 😏).  In the second painting I blended big blocks of squares.  ~ JM

using cardboard to create texture and using stencil

blending squares