Abstracting Old Figurative Paintings
An Abstraction of an Old Figurative Painting of a Hummingbird 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 11 x 14"
Spring cleaning is underway in the winter studio of the basement painter. April is a good time for the chore. The mind is ready to de-clutter, empty its winter piles of garbage. Usually I just organize canvases on shelves, stack paper paintings in boxes, arrange paints and brushes on the art cart, throw away stiff, painted rags strewn about the chair, and pick up the many repurposed raw meat Styrofoam® palettes to add to the Texas-sized plastic trash vortex churning in the hot open sea.
But I’ve been uncommonly surly these last few days, to the world and to myself. Drunk with displeasure, getting into arguments with songbirds, feeling all nasty and low-down and ready to pop. I fingered through a batch of old 11 x 14’s, took four off the shelf, stacked them two-on-top-of-two at the easel, and let them have it with whatever ails me.
Abstracting the lot. It hasn’t helped yet, and I’ll do it again today.
Meanwhile, for those who buy paintings to match colors in a room... Have I got a new Throop line for you. I call it “Flippin’ Off Sparrows—The Temporary Insanity of Spring Fever”.
An Abstraction of an Old Figurative Painting of a Hopewell Villager 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 11 x 14"
An Abstraction of an Old Figurative Painting of Henry Kissinger Torturing a Cat 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 11 x 14"
An Abstraction of an Old Figurative Painting of a Buffalo at Niagara Falls 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 11 x 14"
Good afternoon @ronthroop Thank you for sharing these wonderful abstract paintings with us. I also love your diary type of post in general revealing how the magic actually happens. The first and the last paintings are my favourite. I decided to nominate your post for Nominate and get Rewarded: 15% Trial Upvote, (Nomination Day 87) I wish you all the best of luck. I also invite you to visit my latest article here in the WORLD OF XPILAR #club5050 England’s Smallest Palace (Power Up 53 Steem) Enjoy the rest of the day my friend and see you around here on the platform.
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My best art is that of running away, and April gives me the push. I painted four more cover-ups today, then ran outside to plant beets, arugula, spinach and radishes. I put my nose up to the air like a lazy hound to smell the fresh air, while everything around me happened all at once.
Spring!
You are more than welcome @ronthroop You deserve it as your art is something we love to admire here and you are such an active contributor to our WORLD OF XPILAR community. How not to love spring! I have never grown rocket and I guess I should try as slugs won't find it appetising and we love it in salads and on pizzas.
I love the slugs! I would eat them if they weren’t so slimy:)
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I like your artwork full of colors and abstract figures. 🎨
Something new for me. I have a difficult time not making figures in a painting:)
Nice painting with good colors
Thank you. Colors. For me, a blessing and a curse:)
To understand the beauty of these paintings, we do not have to look at the figure or compare them with real life objects, rather, we have to look at the artist's idea, the colors and the different shapes, when we reach this level, we will begin to appreciate the true beauty that lies before our eyes.
Yes, perhaps I’ve been too harsh on abstraction.
Thank you for your thoughts. I wanted to give 100% vote but fingers move faster than mind this early in morning before my coffee:)
beautiful painting
Thank you:)
Beautiful painting
Thank you:)