The Journal
Journal — Abstract Art & Painting Insights
Essays on abstract painting, technique and the artist's practice — new articles regularly.
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Acrylic Pouring: Technique, Materials and Steps for Painting with Fluid Art
Paint that finds its own way across the canvas, with no brush or knife involved: acrylic pouring has become one of the most shared abstract techniques online. What it is, what materials it takes and how it's done, seen from the studio of a geometric painter who would rather tame chance than surrender to it.
Malevich and Suprematism: the Story of the Black Square
In 1915, in Petrograd, an almost entirely black canvas was hung in the spot reserved for religious icons. That gesture founded Kazimir Malevich's Suprematism — one of the most radical currents in the history of abstraction, one that every geometric abstraction since owes something to, in its own way.
Mondrian and Neoplasticism: The History of the De Stijl Movement and Its Grid
Three colours, two non-colours, only straight lines: few artists have ever pared their vocabulary down this far to say this much. Here's the history of Piet Mondrian's Neoplasticism, the De Stijl journal that carried it, and what a geometry this strict owes — or doesn't — to my own.
The Bauhaus and Geometric Abstraction: How a School Changed Painting
A school shut down in 1933 still dictates the visual vocabulary of geometric abstraction: clean grids, primary colours, form stripped to essentials. Here's the Bauhaus's history, its masters — Kandinsky, Klee, Itten, Albers — and what my own Latin American geometry owes it, or doesn't.
Contemporary Art in Toulouse: Museums, Galleries and Associations
Les Abattoirs, the Frac Occitanie Toulouse, a committed associative network: the Pink City holds a richer contemporary art scene than it lets on. After exhibiting there at the Les 111 des Arts competition, I map out the places that keep it alive.
Can You Mix Ink and Acrylic in Abstract Painting? Technique and Precautions
"Is that paint or drawing?" A question that comes up in front of Upside Down or Viracocha, the only two canvases where I combine acrylic with ink or marker. Here's how line and colour meet in my work — and what's worth knowing before you try it.
Abstract Painting for Beginners: The Essential Supplies to Get Started
"I don't dare start, I don't have the supplies." I hear this often at my exhibitions. After returning to painting in 2020 with the basics rather than a full studio, here is what you actually need to start painting abstract art.