Another way to activate the painting surface

Artist Julie Schumer demonstrates another start to a non objective painting starting with black paint, black dry drawing media, and white paint. She discusses the concept of layering, flux and obliteration. Trying to find new ways of starting a painting that will get your creative juices flowing? 🔴 Check out Dive Into Abstract Painting: https://julie-schumer-workshops.think...

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Our next demonstration is going to involve how to take these paintings farther and start layering them up.
We call it a process of flux and obliteration and when you guys do it you'll take one of your previous starts and work on those as opposed to starting an entirely new painting. But I'm starting on a different size and orientation of paper just for fun so I'm going to start again with automatic drawing.
I will use this long brush to start with which I haven't done before and I will do it with my left hand and I'm right-handed then I'll go in with I think some of this pastel black pastel which I haven't used for a while.
Then the next thing you can do with that and this is kind of enough of this for right now is start going in with white paint we have we have acrylic white paint and we have white gesso they'll both act the same on your paper and start blocking out parts of it that.
The whole idea is to do this back and forth process between the white paint obliterating with white paint going back in with a drawing tool or painting with black paint. It's a process of layering--you can go many many rounds on this-- you can let it dry a little bit in between or not. The effect will be different and it winds up you'll see in a minute it can look like sort of a mess with all this charcoal mixed in with the paint it gets grey but if you keep going back and forth and back and forth eventually you're gonna have a really sort of rich layered painting with a lot of history underneath.
Wipe this off a little bit so I'm gonna kind of step back and take a look at this and see what I might be thinking where this could go although at this stage it really doesn't matter because you're gonna have so many layers it's probably will bear no resemblance to this at the the final analysis so maybe start like that and you can see it's going to start turning gray right away.
Don't be intimidated by the gray you can add a little water to it and I'm not overly thinking this right now I'm just trying to start creating layers I do I mean I use a lot of water not necessary it's just kind of a habit you can get like see here now it's like thinner white paint so you know you can vary the water content just to see what happens.
So now maybe I'll go back in with one of these pencils and start drawing in. I don't really have a real plan yet I don't really have a focus point yet and it maybe not happen till the afternoon cuz I'll probably do to take this to the back and keep playing with it most of the day so we can see what happens let's try the little cardboard.
Little cardboard is fun I recommend it you might want to wait a little longer than I'm gonna wait in between layers if you let it set up for like maybe two three minutes if you'll have less of the gray action happening we also have you could spray water there's a couple spray bottles over on the big table I'm trying to leave some of these lines underneath visible we'll see which ones make the final cut mainly trying to cover the whole paper at the moment because that's me we'll try this pastel I'm feeling that the main focus is ultimately gonna rest here but we'll see.