Recently I have been intrigued with the idea of creating an abstract painting on black canvas. I had seen it in the art and craft supply store locally where I shop and thought it might be an interesting adventure. First I tried a small one to see if there were any preliminary precautions I needed to learn before venturing forth on a large canvas. It is always daunting as any painter know to stare at a big white canvas before you, but I decided to think about painting on a solid black canvas in a different way. When I start a painting with a white canvas I always try to know out all of the white space immediately, but painting on the solid black canvas I decided to first explore leaving the black as a background and creating the artwork to optimize that. On the first small canvas I created a linear pattern of blue and white and then added small strips of foil as a collage pieces.
Collage-Glimmer
For my second black canvas, I decided to be brave and tackle a larger one. My idea for this one to again take advantage of the already prepared black back ground and use limited paint, white, beige and deep crimson. I wanted it to have a very textured look. It seems like an easy to execute plan. Maybe too easy but that was not the case.
AbstractBW1
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Easy to paint but the problems is the strokes have to be carefully planned so it does not seem overdone and has the freshness of a simple and uncomplicated design. This is difficult to do because sometimes the strokes do not happen as planned. I wanted more of a textured look on the big line going diagonally up the canvas and it did not happen even after several tries. By then the line was much more solid-looking than I had wanted. Also the half circle on the right middle did not look as I had wanted.
AbstractBW2
To correct this I added some black paint on top of the white and beige in the areas that i felt needed it. I added some deep crimson for accents. I like the results. It is a far departure from the way I usually paint, but I think it is good to try new things and push yourself in new directions. It opens the doors to new processes of learning.
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