How to Easily Create your own Beautiful Abstract Painting Step by Step

The following video demonstration will teach you how to create your very own abstract painting easily from scratch. The entire painting is completed in one sitting in about 30 minutes. It’s a wet on wet painting meaning wet paint is applied on top of wet paint. This will allow the colors to mix and interact with one another on the canvas to produce the desired effect. The Artist is using acrylic paint as his medium.

The Artist begins by taking some white paint and adding water. He mixes quite a bit of this white as it will form the base of his painting. He then pours it directly on the canvas and spreads it around fairly evenly. By the way, you can use any color you want as your base coat. It does not have to be white. It all depends on the look you are after. White is just this Artists personal choice for this particular painting.

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About Julie Duell

Julie Duell (nee Henderson) is a 6th generation Australian going back to the First Fleet of English convicts to arrive in Sydney cove in 1788. She also has a drop of American Shoshone Indian heritage for good measure! Julie was born in Sydney in 1941 and continued to reside in Sydney environs thereafter. Julie was named after the month of her birth, July.

Over many prolific artistic years, Julie has painted under the names Julie Ferguson and J. Ferguson-Duell before simply signing her works Julie Duell. As a child, she studied art at St. George Technical College, Kogarah and singing with a private teacher in Rockdale, entering numerous Eisteddfods as a soloist with some success.

Adult years saw Julie resume her art studies, once again at St. George Technical College and then numerous short courses on the Central Coast where she has been a prolific practising artist and art teacher since around 1970.

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