How to Make Your Beginner Art Look Professional: TIP Abstract Art Tutorial
The difference between “beginner art” and more professional art is often just the matter of a few things added to the painting to make it more unique.
You learn these as you go and you develop your own.
I’m going to show you a quick technique I often use.
CREATING MORE PROFESSIONAL-LOOKING ART
I’m getting some interesting effects with it and each time it is a bit different.
EASY TECHNIQUE FOR BEGINNER PAINTERS TO MAKE YOUR ART LOOK MORE PROFESSIONAL
With your palette knife and a little white paint, or any color really; you can use whatever color you like for this. I most often use white to create a sort of highlight effect. You can see my art and the paintings where I’ve used it. Here is how you do it:
Just put a little white onto your brush and then determine where exactly you want this effect.
Use this sparingly; don’t overdo the technique on your artwork
I think right in here is going to be a good place for this. So, you just kind of lay it down like this (lay your brush flat on its side) and move it around to deposit a little of the color/white.
Use a flat brush with a little white on it. Lay brush on its side (lightly) and deposit a swash of color.
It gives you that almost snowy effect, covers up that little section that was kind of a little bare, doesn’t cover up our color, but adds some interest and some highlight with the white color.
Use any color you like
Again, you can use any color you’d like. Since this is quite a light, modern, neutral painting, I’m going to just kind of work that in on a few areas you can do as little or as much as that as you want.
But again, if you just use just a little bit of it, a couple of areas, then you can create some very interesting visual variation on your canvas. See more interesting abstract art techniques I use on my paintings.
Let that fully dry.
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