Robert Burridge: Abstract Florals

Here's a clip from Bob's Abstract Floral DVD.

Again we are not doing photo realism here, thank goodness. Again I use the gesso and when you add white to that color, white, it's going to make it opaque and that's what I want to happen right here.
So wet my brush, always wet your brush. Don't ever put a dry brush in your paint, always nice and wet, so that way the paint flows off the brush a lot easier. So I have a big puddle of white right here, make it nice and juicy. We don't use enough water in your paints. This isn't toothpaste you're scraping around. Get it so it flows off the brush easily. Now I'm going to dab it dry it off a little bit here. Now we're not looking at any particular kind of flowers, we don't do any specific kind, I'm not a botanist, I'm a painter. I'm going to project and there's got to be some flowers in here somewhere. Let's see what happens. Let's see how much trouble I can get into.
So here we go. Just the beginning. There's the vase, there's the table down there. This may be a hard thing for a lot of us to see at first because we're probably trained the other way specially if you're read a lot of those books that talk about dark and light, but we're just goofing around. And that painting is almost done.
Now because we have so much stuff going on on the table here it's hard to see whats going on with the painting so most studio painters will paint with a discarded mat. Well right off the bat it has no focal point and with flower paintings you want to have a focal point. Usually I call it the star so let's use this yellow. And just pick a spot and bing, that's the star. See how your eye goes right to it. Maybe a few more here and here, now let's get the center. And at this point this painting is almost finished.

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[chrylhamiltonsoap]

I really like this guy!

[Adrianacreates]

Your artwork is great; your teaching is too.