Complete Abstraction

This painting started out as a bit of an abstract painting with a dark background with bright colours on it. Its a large canvas so needed something dramatic

I overpainted it soon after with a calm wave themed painting, and thats how it sat on a shelf for months, forgotten.

Ive been painting abstract painting for a while now and was really happy with something Id painted, again, on a previously twice painted canvas, and had made it more industrial and just different.

Starting on this canvas, it went from waves, to a rainbow and into the pink explosion of colour it is now

Hope you like it

 Evolution of a painting

The painting Im doing at the moment has evolved over the week through rainbows, melting paint to what it is now

I like trying different things and techniques as I am still learning about all of this stuff but im getting there

This is its evolution

not much more to do on this but may add a bit of newspaper...

 Something Different

Thought I would paint something very different although its also quite similar to what I have painted before

Its called Melting Reality and reflects how ive sometimes seen reality in my head, focused and unfocused, bright and also dripping as if it were wax from a candle

 Weekend Focus

I need to focus on finishing this painting, thats about the largest I produce really.  The Sunflower isn't really how I want it to look, but I like the background.

Just a time to let the colour and shape flow rather than forcing it which is what I think I did to get it to this stage

 Abstraction

If you've been looking at my website (https://www.ianhammondart.co.uk) you'll have seen that most of my most recent work has been abstract art, mixing rainbows, nature and geometric shapes in various ways.  

Part of this is because when emotionally I'm in lots of places, it helps me to relax and almost feel the colours and put them onto the canvas or paper, but also its acknowledging the importance of all of the shades and colours to life, and that they are all connected. 

Thats not meant to be pretentious.  It's about shades of colour across all parts of nature, with no one colour being dominant across the board.

So I started playing with colour, trying different things.  I saw an amazing artist on Instagram,  called Maryanne Shakyhand (www.gabbagallery.com) who creates amazing geometric pictures, and so I did a bit of that sort of art, but also flowing rainbows of colour, either as solid flows or lines of individual colour.  

Below are some of these

Im enjoying the less restricted painting style in the latest works, but the geometric style does help my mind to both fly and focus at the same time, which is good at times when its in the wind

Have a look at the other stuff on my website. I hope you like them.  Feel free to comment

 New Listings on Etsy and on Instagram

If you get the chance, have a look at my new postings on Instagram, which are also for sale on Etsy

  

My Instagram site is :  https://www.instagram.com/ian_hammond_artist 

My Etsy site is: https://www.etsy.com/shop/IanHammondArt

 Swirls

So yesterday i decided to try something abstract but different to the sort of thing I’ve been doing for a while.

I had in my mind something like flowing streams of light coming up from below and towards the top of the canvas.

So this is how it started

I didn't like it so started playing with colours

which ended like this

I quite like it. ill leave it for a while and see if I like it in a week or so.

Slow period   

Im in a bit of a slow period in terms of painting. Ive been fiddling with abstract things, but can't really concentrate so not posting a lot. Im also a bit becalmed with my website build and Etsy, but hang about, Ill get them all working again soon

that was why Ive been distracted as well.  

 

Latest work...

My painting is usually something to do with waves, storms, landscapes or animals, and I don't usually do anything really abstract, but I started this one yesterday morning and finished it by the end of the day.   No layers, just colour.  I am not sure its exactly how I wanted it but it does what I wanted it to - draw the eye into the middle, but feel the colours moving out as well

Ive called it “Sunburst“. Its Acrylic paint on an A4 Canvas framed board.