Common Mistakes to Avoid In Your Abstract Art | Jodie King Art 

I just started painting abstract.What I'm used to doing is acrylic poured paint where I get all my colors then layer them into one cup with several layers.Then I used a blow dryer to the paint around the canvas. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.I call those ones a "do over". I'm getting better at it.I have a deal working with a local coffee shop and the owner is going help with the selling them. So hopefully it'd works out for me.

LOL, I almost chucked when you spun the video...Confession, I wear my painting clothes out to run errands if I'm having a shit day. My painting clothes make me feel like a badass!!!! Great video!

Thanks for sharing about sometimes being frustrated with a painting and just setting it aside. I thought I was the only one.

Great video. I keep the following quotes in mind: "When I'm painting I've no idea what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I'm about. I've no fear of making changes, for the painting has a life of its own". Jackson Pollock. "When I'm falling, I know I'm ok". Willem DeKooning.

Thankyou, I've left a piece for a month now! Greyscacle was the exact tip I needed! Highlights added! Boom sorted! Much appreciation!

More fantastic, practical advice. Thank you!

yes, yes, yes, and yes. Thanks for giving me a simple solution. I do have a habit a making all my brush strokes the same direction and I never thought of flipping the canvas. Love your personality and your really fun to listen to. Thanks for the tips!

Loved this advice! Thank you!

Great tips, thank you!

Thank you! I needed to hear that! 😊🙏

Very helpful.

Good tips for any style of painting ! Thanks for this great video !!! :) Subscribed !!

Super cool advice thanks Jodie 👏🎨👍🖼️🖌️💜

This is very helpful so I subscribed...... look forward to more of your work

I’m such a perfectionist to my art but your video really helped a lottttt❤️

Thankyou so much for this video Jodie it was just what I needed right now as I’m stuck on a large abstract! I found it very valuable advice your awesome 😎 Xx

Color always throws me off. I'm learning to use a limited palette initially and then adding some vibrancy later on, when the painting is starting to talk 😂 Also keeping a few paintings going at a similar rate helps me to bounce around without losing focus.

So helpful. Thank you 🎉

Much appreciated !!

Great points! I am a newbie. I am interested in hearing more!

This is really good, I hit 4 out of 5 today. Thanks.

Thank you Jodie this was Soups helpful

Thank you for sharing

Thank you for this! It's a special kind of therapy... you just saved me from about three more hours of refusing to stop ruining a painting!

This is great

Good tips thanks

Great tips to deal with the emotional side of creativity!

awesome....spin me right round baby

Hey Jodie... Just a heads-up in teaching... I hope the following suggestions will be of help to you in your tutoring style and your building your RU-vid followers. Please don't think I am a "Know-it-all," as I am not. But, I do try to have positive critiques that can make a positive difference to those who I do take the time to write. As in this video, you gave 5 pointers. At the end of the video, you should name the 5 points you gave in your video just to summarize what you taught. It's also beneficial for your watchers to have the points you discussed in the info about the video, so they can write them down or copy them for future reference. Also, the notes on the white board behind you with negatives, are negatives that your viewers pick up subconsciously. They don't help you, when you are working, and they don't help your viewers. That may be one of the reasons why you've had 10,500 views, but not 500 likes. Just some helpful insights from my parents being teachers, and my own experience as a tutor. My best to you as you work to build your audience. ;)

How do I find the follow up video? I want to see how you finish this painting

How can it be a mistake if there are no rules?

As a Christian I put praise and worship music ( Paul Wilbur) before I paint and the music puts my spirit in a place of serenade ……. Just a suggestion 🎼🎼🎼 Thank you for your time in this teaching 🤩🤩🤩🤩

Hi again it’s me lynne. Could you tell me what kind of house paint brushes you use? I would go get a few from home depo. I have alot of brushes but usually for my medium some big ones probably would work? Have a good one🌻

I tried my off hand to change things up.

#4…Omg! Lightning bolt!!! I’m a photographer by degree!! Omg!! Freaking value! The freaking zone system!!! Geez..Louise….thank you so much. This is so intuitive, yet here I was….not doing it!

Hello I just stumbled on you … on u tube.I really think that they way you explain.. I think your cool like me really. Are you using acrylic paint ? If so do you use the lower end? Just asking, I am a mixed media artist and I am now trying abstract man ole man it looks easy but no it’s NOT! a I watch a lot of videos and it’s funny everyone has there own twist. I like how you explain because it’s more realistic not …. My space is so cluttered . I have no room to do big canvases at the moment . I am going to get a company to build a space to put everything because it’s not a art room it’s a dining sorta area. Regardless I need to have 2 or 3 going at the same time or different times so I don’t try and use a dryer every time or have it sit over night. Then try and start another. I hope you get back with me, I like your presence your totally calm relaxed. And I am the same type of painter want to change it up as soon as I hate how it’s looking. I do take a picture and another ..then sleep on it. There is so much I could say. I’d rather listen to your words of wisdom. Thanks alot peace out !

There are NO MISTAKES in art...it is your own beautiful, YOUnique expression 💓🙏☄ The world begs to see YOU, not someone's else's rules and regulations xx Embrace happy 'accidents', for they are made by your own beautiful hand xx Much Love & Blessings 😇💖

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Love your command of the written language. It told me right away that you don't have anything creative to say. Good thing I previewed this before sharing with my students...

There's mistakes in abstract art???

After flip one, I saw a lady kissing a fish.

I have to tell you this . Do not ever say what’s a mistake . It’s dumb . As a artist I do not like that about people. Van Gogh says there is no mistake no rule in art . It’s your art . People that don’t understand people like me and Van Gogh need to understand why I drew or paint this .

Anddddd, you didn't fix it.

There are no rules in abstract art...

Abstract expressionist are like actors playing painters. They wear their uniform, and say their lines. Of course the same can be said for people that hate abstract art haha

You can't make mistakes in abstract. That's why it's called abstract. If you make a mistake; oops. Well, it's just part of the artwork. There are no rules about it.