How to paint Abstracts with Skye Taylor

[Narftaxaku200]

this shit painting means the deja vu? How to know what does a bag of paint mean? I prefer telepathy LOL

[nutstar13]

at least four good paintings in the process very enjoyable watching this.

[TwinFlameUnion]

You are scream Tyler as well as a fab artist..thanks for being on the planet!! YAY!!

[plark15]

I imagine you plan out the painting before diving into the full size version. I always have trouble coming up with ideas for abstract paintings. I usually just have to mess around with the paint until an idea comes to me. How do you come up with your ideas? Do you sketch them, do a small painting, oil pastels?

[skyetaylorgalleries]

@plark15 Hello! I never sketch first. Sometimes when I go to sleep I lay in bed with my eyes closed and imagine painting a picture. My best ideas happen this way. I test things in my mind first. Most times I look at the canvas and have a vision. Sometimes I just start painting and it paints itself. Check out my etsy site at: etsy.com/shop/skyetaylorgaller­ies I paint whatever my vision is. Right now I'm working on a painting with cows and country settings. This is where I'm at today.

[WatercolorsbyKarsten]

Love it!Thanks for the info!!

[Gunnysgirl22]

@mdwyer39 its "din din wo" by habib koite... i think thats how his name is spelled

[emomitchie821]

this is just amazing.......it has inspired me to start painting abstract again:)

[TheLaura1655]

Maybe try using a large flat brush and large metal tool making larger stokes. good to try new ways!

[Griekseboertjieful]

what liqued did you use while painting

[skyetaylorgalleries]

@Griekseboertjieful I use Liquidtex Gloss Medium. It extends the paint without losing pigmentation. Also its a great paint extender and ads depth. Thanks for asking.

[mdwyer39]

Nice work! What's the music?

[skyetaylorgalleries]

Had a determined fly in the video. It was buzzing me while I was painting and driving me nuts. I guess you could say I was trying to get the bugs out of my work! LOL

[goldielocks591]

cool

[kerryTele]

HOT MUSIC!!! GREAT PAINTING...

[skyetaylorgalleries]

@kerryTele Thank you Kerry!



[NLGBasedBoy]

i gotta question mann,what typess of like canvas do you useee?!

[skyetaylorgalleries]

@NLGBasedBoy I like the Premier Canvas 1-1/2 thick from .Dick Blick.

[RocknRoRose]

he keeps smudging the left side its starting to look brown but i love the white blue and green...... i see he covered up the left alot..... what is he doing to the middle..? No he just restarted again... I would have stopped the painting at 1:48 :-D its beautiful at the first try.

[3dplayboy]

why use so much paint? Seems silly..

[TheLaura1655]

Who is behind every great female artist!!!? HAHA

[TheLaura1655]

Are you using gouache or liquid form acryl?

[skyetaylorgalleries]

@TheLaura1655 Hey Laura, I'm using Acrylic

[TheLaura1655]

@skyetaylorgalleries OK , have you seen Gerhard Richter's abstract works. Some interesting videos on how he applys paint. He has some large cans of paint and was wondering if that is oil or acryl. Cannot be sure what it is,but with that method of painting acrylic would dry too fst even with a retarder.

[skyetaylorgalleries]

@TheLaura1655 usually a husband who has been painted in a corner and told not to move. Ha Ha Ha.....Funny stuff right here.

[mrbottbanan]

How did you do the effects in that painting "harmony"? very nice!

[MsSunbean]

What kind of acrylics do you use? Also  where do you purchase your supplies?

[leecliett]

We are twins... Mr. Skye....lol

[12quillemall5321]

Looks like a landscape

[skyetaylorgalleries]

Wow! So beautifully said by a person who totally understands Art! Great words!

[aboumandands]

I think it's important for viewers to realise that not everyone is going to be able to understand every art work, especially when it comes to abstract. The concept behind a piece of art and the ways that it is interpreted varies from person to person, as their life experiences and that which they can relate to is completely different to everyone else. What an individual takes away from a painting is based on themselves as people and is unique. That in itself is a masterpiece.

[skyetaylorgalleries]

thanks

[TheDEMILOVATOCRAZY]

@skyetaylorgalleries WHAT PAINT PLEASE?

[skyetaylorgalleries]

@TheDEMILOVATOCRAZY Golden ofcourse

[danv027]

thats pretty incredible! I love your style. suggestion - incorporate some of the bold, expressive marks either with the brush or by splashing the paint, into the final product toward the end. the marks that im talking about were seen around 1:30 - 3:00 minutes

[billholb1974]

hey sky this looks awesome! 2 ?s you spray down with water at the beginning? and what is the bottle to the right you pour on is that a gloss? thanks for any info!

[skyetaylorgalleries]

@billholb1974 Yes, that was Gloss Medium. I love adding it to the canvas to add depth to my paint.

[infowazz]

@skyetaylorgalleries good to know. acrylics just changed my whole art technique. i think its good to have multiple styles.

[HelloHello563]

Very good painting. I am guessing that you actually made

two different paintings in this video. You paint left handed which shows that the

design goes from left to right. Have you ever switch hands so some designs go

from right to left? You forgot to place 2x4 wood under canvass to keep drips off

canvass. Keep up the good work. Patrick

[skyetaylorgalleries]

@HelloHello563 Yup, I forgot the wood...I get so excited to paint I sometimes forget.

[arvi789]

abstract doesnt limit you

[skyetaylorgalleries]

Yeah that was a pesky fly....I was trying to get the bugs out of the painting...LOL

[Shaysailor]

@3:44 - bug crawls along table, lol

[seomoz]

you can paint the same thing by using 10 times less paint and time. what does that thing even express? i really dont get it

[skyetaylorgalleries]

@seomoz Have a few drinks and look at it again....LOL

[MangledMaggie]

@seomoz and if you have to ask that question, you probably never will.

[skyetaylorgalleries]

@seomoz What's to get? It is what it is.

[Mercedes89beaver]

ugh that was BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

[eastbayartist]

looks like you had fun

[914peru]

nice music an you art too

[zzzthaoster]

looks good at first

[dsharpinsturments]

very inspiring!



[alderwally]

Skye: Love your videos (watched just two so far) and your practical advice. Somewhere in here you gave the best advice, to which I can attest as a guy who picked up a paint brush for the first time in his 57 years 8 months ago and is absolutely loving it - to wit: Just go for it. Take a class or classes, watch stuff on-line, get some paint and get your hands, pants and shirts dirty, and, most important, free yourself - paint for yourself. That's what I got from you. It's all true. Paul

[skyetaylorgalleries]

@alderwally  Thank you Paul! God bless,,,,,Go paint that Masterpiece!

[zzzubin]

Which song is that?

[VirtuousArtKVP]

Love your style. It's so freeing:)

[glardonbrian]

Hey Sky, awesome work! I have a question for you...at the end of your video where you have the painting displayed in a living room setting over a couch...I was wondering how I would go about doing that for some work that I would like to attempt to put online and sell. Thanks for the videos!

[skyetaylorgalleries]

Hello!

No the paint was not thinned with water. I keep my brushes soaking in water 24/7 and tap the water out of them before I paint. If the paint was thinned with water the color would not be as vibrant. The speeding of the video makes it look more fluid. Brush techniques in high speed also make it look fluid. I built layer on this painting which would not be possible if the paint was watered. Thanks for watching and have fun with your painting. :) God bless, Skye

[debrunskys]

Hi,

I really like your painting and style, I haven't painted anything yet, but will start today, the one thing that really stood out to me, if I saw it correctly, was your paint was thinned with water so thin that it could be poured like water out of a glass. Is that what I was actually seeing ?

[rvilmi]

I love the way you paint, Skye, the process as well as the product:-)) I must pick up my own brushes now, thanks:-))

[BANANADAIQURI]

Ausome! Beautiful! Inspirational! What was that incredibly beautiful music that you used for this video?

[hollease]

Great video. Love the music too, but you didn't put it in your credits. (Malatheni?)

[Devochka30]

You are so funny, love your style!!

[skyetaylorgalleries]

Trish - All off a sudden you will see results - step back and look at your work. If you love it it's finished! The hardest part of painting abstracts is knowing when to quit. One brush stroke more can make it a masterpiece or be too much. This is an art you will get over time. Don't listen to anybodies opinion. Art is subjective. If you love it than that's all that matters. You have to please yourself first before you can please others. Hang in there I know you can do it. God bless, Skye

[skyetaylorgalleries]

Trisha4465 - Spend time doing research on Abstracts you like. Study how the blend the colors and try to see what colors they used. Remember trish, you can't make a mistake because you can always paint over the canvas if you do not like it. Free your mind of worries, get a color wheel to see what colors compliment one another. Shut off the phone, put on your favorite music and loose yourself. Be free! Have Fun! (Continued)

[skyetaylorgalleries]

Hello Trisha4465, colors become muddy when you overwork them. If you are doing Abstracts ...well the truth is abstracts are harder to paint than most people think. Understanding what colors mix well with what colors is the key. White will mix with every color to produce a wide range of tones. Yellow with blue is cool too. Stay away from mixing black into colors. I like ultramarine blue mixed with red to produce a black like paint.

[trisha4465]

Skye...just a question...I love your easy carefree style of painting but...what do you do if when you are painting your colors start to get muddy from blending? I'm just learning to paint.

[skyetaylorgalleries]

Hello 80sClau!

I slap on Liquitex Gloss Medium Varnish.  It make the paint spread easier and ad a slight gloss that ads depth and pop the picture. When you put on the final Varnish (See my varnish video) it's a better overall finish. Hope that helps. God bless, Skye

[80sClau]

Hi Skye- your painting are awesome! I did have a question, what was the medium you used after you sprayed water on the canvas? 

[skyetaylorgalleries]

Thank you so much unitedMMc. This was my first speed painting video and I had a lot of fun doing it.

[UnitedMMC]

I really enjoyed watching you paint. Cool painting.

[honeyeater13]

Hey Skye! Great to see you in action! Saw this first on LMM after Mo put it there and LOVED watching every minute of it as have many others there. Hope to see lots more of you painting in the future.  (pretty please?) Cheers....Sandra :)

[Qnadii]

that was fantastic! I'll be watching that a few times

[skyetaylorgalleries]

HELLO! YES THERE  WAS A FLY IN THE PAINTING BUT IT WAS THERE BECAUSE I WAS TRYING TO WORK THE BUGS OUT! LOL THANKS FOR WATCHING! - Skye

[momapes]

YEA! Love it! Thanks for showing us how you paint. I see you will teach anybody or anything...... that FLY sure was right in there watching you until it must have thought it better get the heck out of Dodge or it might become part of the painting! LOL I love our credits - too funny. Say "HI" to your Dad for us! I hope you don't mind but I am putting your videos up on our artist's social network Loving Mixed Media-Gary Reef creator- everyone loves your videos- SO DO MORE!!!