Savana, new Minimalist piece painted in my garden - Acrylic painting

in #art7 years ago

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A nice quick one painted on canvas paper pad. I nearly added some African wildlife.


So, I finally did a nice new painting in my nice new garden. I recently moved to a London suburb called Finchley. My new place has a lovely little garden shared by a nice Irish lady and her black Labrador.
I sat down and chatted to my new neighbor before getting into the painting. She told me that her brother was an artist and that he passed away a few years ago. His kids actually published a book showcasing all of his landscape art. She showed me the book and I was really impressed with his art. Lots of beautiful land and seascapes. It did feel a little sad to be honest.

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It was nice doing minimalism again. This style of painting is really relaxing and therapeutic and anyone can do it.
To begin with, I just colored the page with some nice yellow and gold paint. I didn't plan anything. I just kept looking at the image in front of me and it took shape in my mind. I guess it's a somewhat Zen approach to painting.

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Wow, yellow. That's deep man XD

Now a good technique with these Minimal pictures is to paint a thin horizontal line through the middle. You can also add other colors and textures adjacent to this middle line. It creates a fantastic horizon or ocean.

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It's not bad in this early state. It could be a desert landscape or a lake. I add a bit of water to the acrylic paint and just mix in some texture with the brush. You can see that the image is now creating a sense of depth. There' not much to it really! Half of it is just looking and thinking.

I used Liquitex acrylic paint for this one. It's really good and very affordable compared to the other pro brands.

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Lastly, I added some simple trees and shrubs with the tiny brush. You can just dab and dot or add some water for more texture. I'm pleased with the results :) Was a very nice, relaxing English summer evening just painting in the garden. I've been living in the crazy inner city so chilling in the Burbs is quite a treat for me.

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Here's a selfie of me and my new masterpiece! I'm much more smiley off camera!

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Thank you so much for stopping by to look at my art. It's a pleasure to finally bring you some new painting content.
I'm also going to join the color pencil bandwagon this week. As some of you know, I specialise in Digital art but it can be very time consuming to produce. Why not just create beautiful traditional illustration in half the time? Don't worry, I will still be working on new digital vector art. I plan to do another book review/illustration soon.

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I really hope you enjoyed this one! Please vote on my post and follow me if you like what I'm doing. My goal is to produce I nice mix of quality art for you Steemians. I want it to have enough variation to keep you guys entertained.
Take care and see you on the next one!

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Thank you so much for this! I really appreciate it :) I've got new content on the way. I will certainly keep on eye on what you guys are doing. See you soon.

@jameshsmitharts,
First look says "Great photography of SAVANA". Then I checked back and understood that was a painting! Great work you have done! Thanks for sharing everything step by step!

Cheers~

Cheers @theguruasia. You're too kind :)

nice painting ...keep it up

Thanks, I'm glad that you liked it. I think these small canvas sheet paintings will get even better.

nice garden, good painting ;)

Excellent painting work. This type of works must be exposed to the whole public, it is worthy of an art exhibition. For my part I can see a lot of realism, excellent work I congratulate you on this.

Wow, thanks for the kind words! I have never settled on one painting style. Perhaps I should paint minimalist art.

Love it! Wish i had that talent!!

Well, this style you can learn! It's not so hard ;)

I really liked the story! ! Next time show us the labrador 😉

I will do. It's super cute.

<3 AMAZING

Thanks dude :)

OMG !! This looks amazing

Hey, I'm glad you liked it :) hopefully it will inspire people to start hobby painting.

This is epic stuff my man. Bob Ross would be proud. I love Steemit because it exposes me to such great artists I would never have seen.

Thank you again for all you do, keep doing great things buddy

Ha! Bob Ross... Well he would tell me to paint a happy lil cloud ;) Thanks for the kind words sir.

Hahaha you best believe he would buddy :)

And you're welcome keep doing great things you got some serious talent

I need to grow a bigger beard and a fro...

All in due time my friend. Keep up the great work :)

lovely painting ;)

Thank you mate. I appreciate you coming to look :)