I just love, love, love your work. I have just within this last year learned that building layers is so important, and not to fall in love with early images but bravely push forward. Making abstract art is hard work. Thank you so much for this!
I've always loved these works, but never knew the medium. I've recently discovered cold wax and am thrilled to find this is exactly the way Rebecca works. I love this!
I just love what you do. I have only recently begun experimenting in art and just love using texture in my painting. Thank you for explaining your wonderful work. Just LOVE it.
BEAUTIFUL work, and rich process. Thank you for sharing. I am going to show some of my online students the video and link to your web site. Many of my them have trouble "painting over", or covering previous layers. To me this is the essence of building rich surfaces and depth, and your video is a great example. Thanks.
so enjoyed this video- thank u for showing how u work and for your comments- there s a great flow to it all. Envious of the time you can spend playing and exploring and staying with the process of painting - surrpunded by all your paints and panels and tools. am currently preparing for an exhibition and have to paint in the garden - hauling stuff in and out of my house..
Enjoyed dropping in on your work and process. The sincerity and depth of your work is evident and I wish you continued success on this journey. The colors are delicious.
thank you for all of these wonderful comments--I have not checked here for a long time and it is great to find them! Vanroob--the panels I use are purchased from Ampersand Art..i use either the Gessobord or Claybord panels in their Museum Series line. They have a hardboard painting surface and nice wood sides.
Morning Rebecca - I, like many, am a big fan of your work....I work with Dorlands cold wax as well, but on canvas....would like to 'experiment' with the lovely wide profile (is it 2-1/2"?) that you use....where do you purchase them from?
I love the lines, colors ,imagination it takes to produce abstracts. I certainly appreciate the extraordinary talent of many "traditional" painters but I won't have one in my home. I prefer to look at abstracts. Seeing beyond "scribbles" is what it's all about. You don't have to like it, just like I don't like literal art but you should be able to see beyond the literal and recognize the abstract artist is indeed producing art. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it less of an art form.
This "representational" artist agrees with you. People have to just chill. I like it all. Although the artists that pumps out fifty "nonrepresentational" paintings in three weeks while I labor on one in the same time period does annoy me. It's my choice I guess (to create the kind of art I create). I tried painting purely non representational (I hate the word abstract) and although I liked the results I found I got nothing out of the process. The paintings in the end meant nothing to me. Maybe it's ego, but I need my works to mean something to me, and I couldn't try to find meaning in just colors, lines, textures, or shapes. But, that's just me. To each their own.
seen some more. Really interesting and highly creative which is what art is about. have you used blocks of wood or are they combined with canvas blocks on a stretcher.?
This is decorating more than art. You cant just randomly bumble about with some paint till you get something reasonably aesthetic, and then apply a meaning to it when its done. Jackson Pollock, who I think she tried to compare herself to, created paintings to illustrate his inner turmoil, with brilliant results. I guess this artist has achieved the same thing, tedious squares.
Thanks for the nice video, very informative and I really like your art. I'm sure you really like jazz. I like some too. However the track you have on as a background is really distracting. If you could choose tracks that don't require a viewers attention so much, that would be appreciated (by me at least). Thanks and all the best.
I recently started abstract art and love it,,,,.but I want to get away from the white traditional canvas, please give me some suggestions ,,,i frequently think about wood but dont know what kind is good for abstract painting,or even how to treat it before painting,
+burlroofable I have only just seen this video and hope that you have found a suitable type of wood to use was just gonna suggest how interesting it can be to challenge yourself on anything you find for free. Doesn't always work out but when it does it feels amazing good luck
yeah. You're right, Rebecca. you're being honest that it's hard work and a great mental and emotional effort goes into producing real artwork... the real thing has to really take something out of you I wouldn't dream of using a roller but when you used it as depicted in the video, it worked with that transparent white... and then that whisk broom (!)... what the... but it worked -- so we can surmise the role of artist gets deeper - Nevelsonesque - 2cause the mind of observers2do artwork too.
Thank you for sharing your ideas and thoughts. This was such a useful and thoughtful video. Really made me stop and think about painting in a new way. Great.
I agree. It seems that she is not making it for a reason per se. She isn't making paintings to make a statement or anything but seems to be painting for the sake of painting (and profit) and then pulling "meaning" out after. Not that there is anything wrong with that but it isn't what many think when they think about being an "artist".
And the funny thing is that people nowdays believe they are being modern and innovative doing what pollock did 60-70 years ago. In my opinion it's not the same as painting a still life (done from ancient years) where you can truly be different through colour, drawing , composition etc. I have, unfortunately the belief that most of the modern artists, not all, but most of them, do not have knowledge. They are all ''decisions'' and ''expression'' but don't know what is going on at all.
Dios mío....que vacío en el alma....mis disculpas y mi más profundo respeto...pero al ver tu pintura más extraño a Pollack o un Basquiat.....pero creo y no te molestes, para decorar ambientes minimalistas o de oficinas es perfecto...mil perdones si mi observación no te alaga.losiento.
This is what you call child's play, a giraffe's or hydra's dissevered head bleeding listless and variegated colors on a canvass. And the vaux populi shall forever genuflect at its knees, where from my distant internet connection, I shall hear the tender sucking sound, as mosquito's and bot flies rummaging.
playing? I am so offended by that statement. Take a good look at abstract art, and the artists behind them. Get yourself some supplies and try reproducing some abstracts you've seen Only then will you see how much "playing" is involved. Can I and many abstract painters paint "traditional" paintings? You betcha. We choose not to. You find it hard to respect abstract painters because you don't understand it. I find it hard to respect opinions from anyone who makes such a statement.
Dee Dee No, it's not generally disrespected because the public don't understand it. It's generally disrespected by the public because the artist frequently doesn't understand it, or is unable to rationalize it in a clear and articulate manner! This is the price we pay for subjectivising meaning in art. Consequently, you have no more grounds to object to someone else's critique, than you do to state that it's a wonderful painting. One cannot make an objective claim about a work which the artist insists is subjective. Therein lies your dilemma. (Incidentally, I speak as an abstract artist myself)
The artist themselves couldn't reproduce their own abstract paintings because that IS exactly what they are doing, playing. Many of them use that very word often to discribe their process. Get off your hi horse. Some art is very easy to create and takes little time and effort while other artist spend months and months laboring on their creations. It doesn't make them better or worse. The end result and how the viewers respond to the work is all that matters.
What about it do you have trouble with? Some times you need to stand back and think about why you don’t like it. Art is supposed to talk to you if it doesn’t you should know why, just for you.
