Great job on the bottom half as well my friend. .

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Hehehe thanks!

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You're very welcome.

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These are some nice abstracts. I like the energy in this one the best.

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Thank you very much! Glad you like them!

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you really need to photo them in their entirety though...
I like this one the best but I'm looking at it as a separate piece than the other half. Composition is so important in abstract and chopping them up makes it really hard to appreciate your intent... although it's a great way to bounce off of one piece to another. My abstract ATCs almost all started as unsuccessful larger pieces that had good things tucked in with the craptastic.

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Thanks! I appreciate the advice! So you think it's well worth doing more then?

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It depends on what you mean by doing more. A lot of people assume "abstract" = easy or simply expressive, but refining it takes a lot of work and study to get beyond just a collection of marks, shapes, forms, colors, etc. or something simply decorative.
Non-representational can be difficult to communicate with because the viewer (at sometimes even the artist in the beginning) has no point of reference except what they bring to the table themselves. I like leaving mine open to some interpretation but I know some abstract artists that are very particular about what they want to convey and do not take very kindly to misinterpretation.
If you're wanting a place to explore mark-making, media and so on, of course more abstract studies would be great to do! I haven't really seen you use the soft pastels before (that's what this is, right?) and playing with them this way can really help you learn the media.
Personally I find that I'm way more obsessive about my abstract work than realism (which is partially why I'm poor with realism... I tend to get lazy and feel that close is good enough) as I get very involved with EVERY mark put down and where I want to push that mark in relation to the rest of the piece. It's why I was kind of disappointed with the digital painting I did of that photo of the copper coil - It was just copying more than anything and I didn't feel like I moved the idea to the next level... but my intention was to learn the media more than anything so I suppose I was somewhat successful in that regard.
What I'm saying is you need to decide what you want to do with abstract and why you want to do it to answer the question of whether it's worth it to put more of your energy into.

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That's a very good explanation and some great words of advice. It's a whole other art genre/form that I have seen so many different subcategories off. It takes just as much to master as realism and yet some abstract creeps into my work when I try to make it realistic. But I think it's part of my style.

I think it's probably well worth my time to learn much more about other abstract artists. The different schools and techniques they employ. I keep going back to being inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright. He's my current favorite artist. I pretty much am familiar with Picasso, Mondrian, some Klee, Jackson Polluck but these are such a small segment of what's out there.

The approach I took YEARS ago to my art was just doing whatever seemed natural. My mom was trained in art in high school and has often given me advice/direction. It's been years since I've taken an art class. But I know now that's just a part of it. That there's a great deal of deliberation and conscious planning to some of it. And a great deal of experimentation just like with science.

I continue to enjoy the feedback you give me on my work. It really helps/inspires me.

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