With regards to speed of working my abstract shown immediately above is my current personal best.

“Yellow Flowered Sun Abstract” is made from a blank canvas in fourteen minutes fifty-nine point ninety-four seconds [14m 59.94s, timed, clock stopped at 2012hrs].

When I could see a Yoda character in cadmium red/orange at the top centre-right I knew this is an altogether different kind of artwork. The pure chance Yoda character is opposite another face in blue, yellow, orange, red and a white-of-the-eye looking to our left in side profile.

One of those ridiculous chance elements amongst my works.

I always reference Leafy Hollow as a benchmark to my speed works, having produced the sketch within just thirty-five minutes. Quite detailed, pretty impressionism.

Even creating a good professional abstract in under fifteen minutes is an achievement for me. Doing so with 100% pure chance characterisations is another. I literally walked around saying to myself ‘if I had tried to paint a Yoda-like character I would take longer than fifteen minutes’!

At least as perfect, to me, as the one we see shown above.

I like to provide additional online interest with digital works wherever possible. I feel “Yellow Flowered Sun Abstract – Monochrome” shown immediately above and “Yellow Flowered Sun Abstract – SolarScape” shown immediately below are both worthwhile pieces to include on my blog.

Art Life, so to speak.

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In keeping with our abstracts’ blog feed focus, please enjoy another delicious treat..

.. “Pink Gold Acrylic Abstract” is made within twenty minutes from start to finish. Inspired by the vibrant paintings of famous singer Donna Summer.

All palette knife working.

Pink dominates this piece. You can decide if this piece captures music and creativity. I had much fun making this, as with all the abstracts in this blog article.

It’s difficult to imagine textures online.

Depth, colour separation, true vibrance.

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“Black White with Colour #1” is made in 21 minutes 06.25 seconds from start to finish. Inspired by three individual ideas.

Two of these ideas I shall share:

My earliest oil painting Creative Mind including detailed images is the first. With its central meandering white line, in a sort of elongated letter ‘x’. In the original we see a ‘volcano red’ angular line.

Secondly a photograph, shown here:

“Black White with Colour #1” is all palette knife working with very quick pre-pencilled hand-drawn outline, all within the timeframe. To be honest I didn’t use the pencilled detail once I began painting.

Loved making this piece since I hadn’t painted in fifteen days. I think its obvious I ‘impressioned’ the letter ‘x’ of the cloud in my abstract. I’m not certain if this was conscious or subconscious thinking as I painted quickly.

So much fun though.

A rarity in that I usually freestyle most abstract works. I can see this direct process of abstract working being of interest to me in the future. Abstract from an inspirational image.

With this in mind let’s ask myself a question:

• How do you decide upon colours and palette/brush motions in your abstracts?

– “I usually gather together the different paints I’m going to use in readiness to work on an abstract. Motions are often entirely spontaneous, whims. Palette knife angle, range of motion, turns, paint depths, contrasting choices.. completely emotive.”

Art is a feeling.