Today, we’re diving into an easy and fun abstract art project that’s all about layers, texture, and trusting the process. We are working with an 11x14 canvas to create a layered abstract art piece with lots of beautiful, earthy tones. You don’t need a perfect plan - just grab your colors, a brush, and a palette knife, and let’s play!

Step 1: Choose Your Colors

Pick a set of warm, earthy tones or whatever colors speak to you. In this tutorial, I used a mix of white, Oyster Beige, Grey Storm, greeny blues (like Thicket and Midnight Garden), and a few soft greens. Keep some white handy to help mute or blend your colors as you go.

Step 2: Break the Blank Canvas

Start by wetting your brush and loosely brushing on your background colors. Don’t overthink it! The goal here is to cover the white canvas with broad, imperfect patches of color - let some of the underpainting peek through. You can mix a little white into stronger colors to tone them down and keep things soft.

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Let's create some abstract beach art with this beginner-friendly tutorial! Using a combination of acrylic bubbles, glass chips, blue round flat gems, and shells, you'll create a stunning beach scene that's perfect for summer. The background is easily painted with a palette knife, requiring no tracer. Get ready to add some coastal charm to your home with this unique and fun 8x10 art piece!

We are going to start by painting our background with several different colors of blue (Shoreline, Bahama Blue, and Desert Turquoise) along with white. I am using a palette knife, dipping the back into my paint colors, and lightly swiping the color onto my canvas from left to right in a horizontal motion. I'll also paint the sides of my canvas too. Dry with a heat tool.

Now let's add our glass! I am going to start by adding Clear Classic glass, Caribbean Blue glass, and Light Azuria Reflective glass. I'll also stick in a couple of blue round flat gems. glass chips, and shells. I'm concentrating ...

This stunning beach abstract is both fun and beginner-friendly! It requires minimal painting, no tracer, and the best part is, you can't mess it up! We'll be using modeling paste, glass, acrylic bubbles, and resin to bring the tranquil beauty of the beach to your artwork. 

I am using an 8x8 wood canvas from Hobby Lobby. I will start by using painter's tape to split my surface in half. I'll paint the top area's background and sides with Tropical Blue acrylic paint. Dry with a heat tool and then add your painter's tape back so that you can add color to the bottom half. I will paint the bottom background and sides with black acrylic paint. Dry with a heat tool again.

Use the back of your palette knife to apply modeling paste to the blue area of your wooden canvas. Apply it quickly and you do not need to be perfect about it. While the paste is still wet, dip your palette knife in Slate Gray paint and barely swipe it across the modeling paste. I'll use this same technique to add white...

Today, we are making a pretty abstract 11x14 piece with gray, blue, metallic gold, taupe, and white paint along with some gold leaf foil and glass. This is going to be a monochromatic art piece for my bathroom and I love the way it turned out! (I also make a mistake and show you exactly how to fix it!) 

First, I'm going to start by drawing a horizontal line about a 1/3 of the way down my canvas. I'm going to add the darker gray paint to the top of my canvas. On the bottom, I'm adding a smoky blue color. Let dry.

Next, I'm adding Oyster White and Anita's White over the top with a large chip brush. I'm just adding the paint from left to right over the top of gray/blue color. Let dry.

I'm going to define my line again with a tiny amount of a khaki and white paint. I'm going to bring the color down a little bit on my canvas too. Let dry.

Now I'm adding some metallic gold paint! I'm taking some paint on just the tips of my bristles and going from left to right, creating an abstr...