Abstract Painter.Art Educator.
David M. Kessler Fine Art
If you’ve ever wondered how to create an abstract painting composition, this video and pdf are for you!
I have never filmed me refining a painting to completion before.
My typical painting process is to "Paint First, Then Think", meaning to paint without thinking using my right brain then once I feel the need to stop, I take time to analyze the painting with my left brain.
Read MorePainting from photographs is a very bad habit that many amateur painters and students consistently utilize to make paintings. Photographs can be used effectively as reference material for paintings, however what I see and hear from most of my painting students is that they replicate the photograph completely without first organizing a separate painting composition or value study.
Read MoreAbstract Painting Academy is an online version of David's wildly popular Bigger, Faster, Fresher, Looser Abstract Painting Workshops. This online workshop is specifically designed for those who, for whatever reason, cannot attend one of David's live workshop events. The in-depth content is the same that he teaches to hundreds of students in live workshop events all across the country each year.
Read MoreThe question I get asked the most by students and other painters is, "What type of paint do you use?" I only use professional quality acrylic paint because it is 100% pigment with no filler added. Also available are student grade paints, and nearly every paint manufacturer produces a line of student grade paint.
Read MoreI have been told by many people that they really enjoy watching me paint in these videos. I remember the first time I ever saw an artist do a full painting demonstration I was mesmerized.
Read MoreI get lots of requests from my fans to make more painting videos, so here is the latest video from the studio: "The Painting of Jewel Tones 2". This painting is an exercise in using the three primary colors of red, blue and yellow.
Read MoreI teach painting workshops all across the country. I find that when I begin a discussion about utilizing the color wheel to develop color harmonies in paintings I receive lots of blank looks on student's faces. I have come to realize that nearly all amateur painters paint from photographs, trying to exactly match local colors without any thought given to creating harmonious color combinations. I guess they think that everything in a photograph provides color harmony. It doesn't.
Read MoreI began my painting career as a watercolor painter more than two decades ago. I loved it because of the way the water acts as a medium to let the paint flow onto, and be absorbed by, the paper. I eventually tired of the limited size of available paper and the need for framing and made the jump to painting in acrylics on canvas - thus retaining a water based medium, but on a larger substrate.
Read MoreDo you struggle coming up with abstract compositions to paint? My workshop students ask me all the time how do I determine what to paint?
Read MorePainting students have long asked how to loosen-up their painting techniques. Because of that request I developed my "Loosen-Up" Painting Workshops.
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