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Art and Reason
http://artandreason.blogspot.com
Art and Reason is the place where I share my acrylic paintings along with a few thoughts about what inspired the piece. The goal of my acrylic creations is to evoke strong feelings that connect us to each other and to our own inner self.
- Added on: Aug 27th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Atul Pande
- Listed in: Mixed Media
- Tags: art Abstract Art acrylic painting Emotion
Recent Posts
Day's End
Sunsets are always fun to paint because they offer an opportunity to play around with colors to heart's content. When I was into photography some years ago, sunsets were my favorite topic. Waiting and watching to capture the exact moment on film had ...
Humble Inspiration
Some years ago while I was living in Michigan, every day I would drive by a patch of country road that went through swampland that had been created as a result of housing developments all around. Hardwood trees that had died from waterlogging still s...
Time-limited Painting
Putting artificial constraints on the painting conditions can have a simplifying effect on the composition and technique. Three Trees was completed with a limited palette and limited brushstrokes.For Marshland, I set a time limit of about 20 minutes ...
Tonking an abstract?
LightWavesI read recently about a technique called 'tonking' (named after an art professor, Henry Tonks) which has traditionally been used in oil portraiture to smooth out the underpainting and remove the brushmarks. The basic tonking technique invo...
Repeating themes
Sometimes I find that trying out variations of the same theme in different pieces can break the monotony of doing the same painting over and over again until you get it right. Those of you who visit this blog will know that farmland fascinates me and...
