Original Floral Acrylic Abstract Painting, Good In Purple by Dranitsin 2011

This is a 18x24 Original Floral Abstract Painting "Good In Purple" created

Pursuit of Elegance original acrylic abstract painting technique by Dranitsin Peter

Watch this video where I share with you how I created this painting "Pursuit of Elegance" step by step:

Modern Abstract Painting of a Tree by Peter Dranitsin called In Silence

This is a new modern abstract painting of a tree that I have just created recently called "In Silence". It is a small 8x8 inches acrylic original painting on stretched canvas. Visit my online original art gallery to view this painting on multiple different backgrounds:

I have also created a special video lesson for you on this particular painting that I share with you. You can also view this modern painting art video lesson by visiting this page: "Modern Abstract Painting Techniques"

Original Landscape Abstract Painting Side by Side

New painting has been added to my online original abstract art gallery called "Side by Side".

About the abstract artist Peter Drantsin

Hi my name is Peter Dranitsin I am a modern abstract artist. My career as a professional artist started after I have finished my active duty in the Marine Corps at the end of 2005 year. and I have painted and sold my artworks ever since up until today. My background as an artist has began since my early childhood watching my mother create her paintings at home. I was taught to appreciate art and highly admired my mother's work. I wanted to push off the traditional way of painting using brush, pallet knife and canvas and took a slightly different approach using all kinds of different tools, techniques and material in creating my abstract paintings. When creating my paintings I always try to stick to basic principles and try to keep it simple. In my abstract art presentation videos you will be able to watch me in progress crating paintings from nothing. Each and every one of my paintings are one hundred percent unique and original. The biggest trick to make the paintings elegant is to remember very important idea that "Less is More". The less you try to think about every single details, the more you will appreciate your artwork because it will have a key ingredient which is free flowing and natural rhythm. All of my paintings are created with high quality acrylic paint on stretched canvas. I do use other acrylic mediums to achieve different effects, but for the most part I stick to the minimum. To be completely honest with you, not all of my paintings come out the way I want them, but the more I paint the more proficient I get in my technique and the final result. Do not be afraid in making mistakes, even when your painting look great and you feel that you can make it better but unsure if it is worth to try to make it better - my advice is go for it. As I learned it myself, you will always get a good experience and build upon your technique as a result even if the painting will have to be covered by paint again. You will eventually get to the point where all you do is choose what colors you want to use in the painting and start applying paint to the canvas and watch your hands and soul take control over the process in creating another masterpiece. It is all about having fun in the creative process and sharing it with the World! I want to thank you so much for taking your time today to watch this video introduction and I truly hope that you will get motivated to watch some more and start creating art!

Creative Way to Use Water when Creating your Modern Abstract Painting

In this short video lesson I will share with you the creative way to use water when creating your modern abstract paintings.

Seasons Bring New Abstract Art Ideas for Modern Paintings

All artists, landscape artists or not, depict the changing of the seasons in their works. The way the light enters a room, even rooms with electric lights in them, changes the way a subject appears, and that’s dependent on what season it happens to be when the painting is created. The seasons affect the way artists feel at any given moment in time, which will affect not only their subject, but the way in which they depict it.
Artists have depicted the changing of seasons for centuries. Dutch painter Jan van Goyen, for example, was fascinated by the four seasons. He created two paintings, both in 1625, called “Summer” and “Winter.” He doesn’t depict the same geographic scene as many of his fellow artists did at the time, but both paintings depict the Dutch tendency to enjoy the seasons to their fullness—the warm, gentle light of summer and the harsh, cold blue-grays of winter.
Van Goyen understood that colors themselves are seasonal, and depending upon when they’re used, appear very different as compared to other times of the year. The French Impressionists, like Pissarro, probably explored the seasonal variation of color better than any other artists before or since. Pisarro’s “Woman in an Enclosure,” painted in 1887, is full of pale yellows that dominate the entire painting, even in the blue colors in the sky. Delicate, spring-like textures are everywhere, giving the painting an overall feeling of freshness and brilliant light.
French artist and Rococco enthusiast François Boucher painted all four seasons for his benefactress, King Louis XV’s mistress, Madame de Pompadour. Boucher’s “Spring” and “Autumn” are pastoral scenes, while “Summer” depicts three nude women cooling themselves near a fountain. In “Winter,” a woman is bundled in furs and seated in a sleigh. Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s 1565 painting, “Hunters in the Snow,” contrasts the harshness of the winter scene with the serene beauty of the snow-covered landscape.
The seasons also have symbolic implications, giving artists plenty of subject material. Spring, for example, is associated with birth, flowers, and love. Summer is often associated with bathing, ripeness, maturity, and pleasure. Autumn is the time of harvest, plenty, and sometimes even physical decline. Winter is associated with rest, survival, Christmas (in more modern times), and death.
No other art form lends itself better to the depiction of the seasons better than landscape painting, which exhibits natural sceneries such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests on a canvas or other two-dimensional surface. When the main subject is shown in a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition, the weather and the season is often important. Sometimes the landscape is an integral part of the painting, and in those cases, the season depicted is a crucial part of such paintings.
Just like some artists like to depict the same object at different times of the day, other artists will portray the same view at different times of the year, at different seasons. Light, shadow, and color all change depending upon the season.

Painting Black and White Abstract Geometrical Painting

Today we paint black and white abstract painting called "Complementary Shapes".

Sketching My Thoughts, Original Abstract Painting Video Lesson by Dranitsin

"Sketching My Thoughts" is a modern abstract painting video lesson where I share with you the process of creating original modern abstract painting on canvas using acrylic paint. You can watch this particular lesson here:

Discover the Beauty of Geometrical Modern Abstract Paintings

Geometrical art strikes our eyes as patterns for an abstract style of painting, much as a mosaic that is nonrepresentational seems merely a repetitive pattern.  Geometrical art combined with the use of color may seem to give a three-dimensional effect, for instance green and red patterns appear to strobe their colors at us as our eyes send to our sensory brain the illusion that the painting moves, contrary to what our logical brain tells us.  Famous artists such as Mondrian have used striking arrangements of black, yellow and red, bold tones on a white background, to form non-representational compositions.  Abstract art appeals to our sense of order, as its sharp edges reassure us that our eyes are not deceiving us, that the crisp lines of paint form linear, pleasing pieces of art. 

Geometrical art is the opposite of the expressionist abstract painting.  What precision and planning it takes to measure the straight lines and angles of a piece of geometrical art!  Bypassing the use of the bright and bold color scheme with its evocative emotionalism, the viewer accesses a logical train of thought when he sees the clarity of purpose in the piece.  Though this art may be thought of as 20^th century, in reality commercial design has used such themes for centuries.  Who has seen the mathematical precision of a set of railroad tracks and not been mesmerized by their disappearing into the horizon, literally vanishing into the vanishing point?  The street grating over a manhole gives the same effect, luring our vision first to the foreground of the forged iron cover and then passing through it to the black depths underground.  Engineering is one of the multiple disciplines traceable in geometrical art.

Moving on to another discipline, geometrical art may be compared to music, with music’s geometrical progression of scales in the classic Western mode.  Even in the atonal nature of Eastern music can be related thematically to geometrical art, as different sizes of rectangles can represent the swiftly-changing notes of such a piece of music.  Going back to early Islamic art and its prohibition upon portraying religious figures, geometrical art lives from the 7^th century onward as intricate patterns in the mosaics and grillwork of the seraglio.  We can see that inventiveness in using fractal patterns began in a very early stage of art history when we consider the glory of Islamic arabesque patterns.  With the spread of the Islamic world touching a great deal of Asia, even Chinese influences come to bear upon this far-flung empire as the two mighty schools of art touch shoulders.  Given that the geometric patterns were used to connect spirituality with science and art, a key tenet of Islamic thought, the repetition of patterns in Islamic architecture has withstood the test of time to portray the endurance of this philosophy.

So you’ve decided upon a piece of geometrical art for your home and you’re ready to commission such an undertaking.  You’ve considered your home or office’s basic colors, you’ve thought about the size of the canvas, the size of the general shapes, from half-inch square mosaic piece size to large blocks of color.  Consult with your artist, gain his or her perspective on what the piece will look like, and make your selection with a cool head.  Your walls are waiting for a bit of mathematical precision and order

Hi everyone, my name is Peter Dranitsin. I am a self representing artist from Cleveland Ohio. I grew up in a family where my mother is a professional artist and my father is a professional photographer. I have been painting professionally since 2006 and this is all I do. In my abstract art video lesson tutorials I will demonstrate different modern techniques that I personally use myself when creating abstract paintings, as well as variety of different tools you will need to create an amazing, eye catching acrylic abstract paintings. I truly hope that you will enjoy watching!

Original modern and contemporary abstract art video lessons by Peter Dranitsin. All videos are copyright protected.

Petes Oriignal Art Testimonials

Hey Pete, just wanted to let you know that the piece I purchased looks great! I am having some furniture delivered in a few weeks and I am going to wait until that is delivered to see exactly how much room I have to work with for the other one I mentioned.

Ron, G

Cleveland, Ohio

As a subscriber to your web site videos, I've been hanging out there more than on Facebook or YouTube...great stuff, brilliant...l'v executed and visually exciting.

Ismael

Austin, TX

My brother you were born to do this keep it up you inspire me peace love and prosperity

Aker

North Carolina

Hello Peter, The painting looks GREAT. Thank you for doing this so fast. I can't wait till I hang this in our living room. It took me about 5 hours to pick this painting from your web site. I really wanted ANGLES CASTLE however our designer said it would not go with the painting I already have.

Mike

Pennsylvania

Hi Peter, Received the painting today. Love it, cannot wait to get it on the wall. Hopefully I can ad a few more this summer. Thank You

Joe

NY

Hey Pete, Your work is amazing, blessfull and very inspirational. Keep the spirit up. Thank for sharing. Bless

Thamarr

Canada

Peter,I am amazed at how quickly you're putting up those videos. They are fun to watch but more importantly, it give me a chance to watch your techniques. Thank you, and as for the minor glitch on the website early this week, I wouldn't have known there was anything wrong but for the email you sent.

Ismael

thanks for keeping us informed

Your work is inspirational and there is a lot to learn from you, thanks for sharing your techniques generously

Padmaja

INDIA

I love your work..Every time I see your paintings i get so much inspiration from them ..Thank you!

Rupi

Thailand

Hi Peter, I live in Vancouver, BC Canada. I love your paintings they are fascinating I watch you painting every night before I go to bed this gives me so much pleasure. I have wished to buy the lucky three and Morning charm...

Zara

Canada

Hi Peter We bought the painting Which One Do You Like from you recently. A couple weeks ago I came home early from work to set up for my wifes 40th birthday and when I got home your painting was on our porch. So I hung it up and when my wife came home she was very surprised and delighted. We both think the painting is very beautiful more so than what a picture could express. Thank you so much for getting it done quickly and sending it right away. This painting is the center piece in our house and we love it
Nowell Wendy
Auburn Hills Michigan

Thank you Peter. This is such a spectacular piece. It is going up on my office wall so I can see it all the time. My wife and I love your work. We feel that too often people dont or cant appreciate abstract art. We think that your work does an excellent job at capturing concepts and emotions and then regenerating those feelings within the observer. Wonderful work. Thanks again.
Brett S.
STOUGHTON WI US

I just wanted to thank you for being my insperation. I am a new artist and your paintings are exactly what Ive been looking for. Your website is amazing and incredably insperational I hope to be at just as good and start my own websiteThank you again
Alyssa 
St.Omer

I love your work. Hate that you feel the need to reduce the prices. Wish you much luck and look forward to being able to make a purchese in the near furture. The Acoustic Guitar piece is up my proverbial alley. Thanks for sharing. -suaman
suaman
Texas

Love, love, love! Fantastic work of art! Amazing textures, dimensions, & colors! Beyond expectations, as always! Very fast ship. Thanks!
Erin
Richardson TX

In love with your paintings! Stunning color, texture, & overall aesthetics. Thanks!
Erin
Richardson TX

Good seller and quality work thanks!
Thomas
Alamogordo NM

Stunning painting! Fast shiping! Thanks so much!
Erin
Richardson TX

The colors and texture of this piece is wonderful! Thank you!
Frank
Matlacha FL

Really enjoy collecting this artist, the vision, the medium is all fantastic!!!
Frank
Matlacha FL

Learn How to Paint Modern Abstract Painting with Peter Dranitsin

Learn how to paint modern abstract painting with Peter Dranitsin. In this video art lesson Peter will show you 8 step process in creating this paintign called "Three Areas". He will also share with you the tools you will need to create this painting. Enjoy and start creating!

Hi everyone, my name is Peter Dranitsin. I am a self representing artist from Cleveland Ohio. I grew up in a family where my mother is a professional artist and my father is a professional photographer. I have been painting professionally since 2006 and this is all I do. In my abstract art video lesson tutorials I will demonstrate different modern techniques that I personally use myself when creating abstract paintings, as well as variety of different tools you will need to create an amazing, eye catching acrylic abstract paintings. I truly hope that you will enjoy watching!

Original modern and contemporary abstract art video lessons by Peter Dranitsin. All videos are copyright protected.

Let Me Share My Personal Modern Abstract Painting Techniques

Let me share with you my own personal abstract painting techniques. In this art video presentation I will show you how to paint elliptical shapes using blending technique. I hope you enjoy!

Explore New Perspective on Modern Art and Creating Paintings

What exactly is modern art?  Actually, it’s really not all that “modern,” at least not anymore.  “Modern art” refers to art that’s closely related to modernism, a philosophy of thought that describes a set of cultural tendencies and a wide range of cultural movements.  Modernism, which became popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching cultural changes in Western society happening at the time.  Artists and philosophers believed that the more “traditional” forms of art, architecture, religious faith, and social organization were outdated in light of the sweeping changes that were occurring in Europe and the U.S. during that time.

Most scholars use the term “modern art” when describing artistic works produced roughly during the 1860s to the 1970s, and is associated with art in which the traditions of the past were replaced by works produced in a spirit of experimentation.  Modern artist experimented with new ways of seeing and depicting the world around them, and with new ideas about the materials and functions of art.  Artists, especially painters, experimented with abstract art in new and different ways.

Self-consciousness is an important part of modernism, and of modern art, which often led to experimentations with form.  Artists produced works that drew attention to the processes and materials used in them.  Most experts believe that the era of modern art began in 1863, the year that Édouard Manet exhibited his painting The Luncheon on the Grass in Paris.  This particular painting, with its juxtaposition of a female nude with fully dressed men, was quite controversial when it was exhibited in the Salon des Refusés, which was where all the nontraditional art was shown at the time.

Manet is an important artist in the modernism movement because, as the great art critic Clement Greenberg said, up to that point art (i.e., realistic and naturalistic art) had used art to conceal art.  Modern artists like Manet, on the other hand, used art to call attention to art.  The limitations of painting—the two-dimensional nature of the canvas, for example—were opened up and made into advantages.  Manet made obvious the materials he used, making his subject matter more honest and as a result, more “real.”  This is especially true of the impressionists.

Cubism, an avant-garde art movement of the early twentieth century, was another important movement that came out of Modern Art.  It revolutionized not only European painting, but sculpture as well, and inspired similar movements in music and literature.  In cubist paintings, like those created by Picasso and Mattisse, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in abstract forms.  Instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the subject is depicted from several vantage points to present the piece in a greater context.  The surfaces often intersect at what seems like random angles with no coherent sense of depth.

  

Let's Paint an Abstract Painting of a Heart

In this short video presentation I am sharing my techniques I used in creating this original abstract painting of a heart on gray background called "Covered". I used liquitex paint, medium size brush, small spatula, and sponge and bottles mixed with paint to create this particular painting. I hope you enjoy watching!

How to Create an Amazing Fantasy Abstract Painting

Fantasy Abstract Paintings are one of my favorite subjects to create! I have created number of them through these past years and this is one of them called "Dream Teller":

Hi everyone, my name is Peter Dranitsin. I am a self representing artist from Cleveland Ohio. I grew up in a family where my mother is a professional artist and my father is a professional photographer. I have been painting professionally since 2006 and this is all I do. In my abstract art video lesson tutorials I will demonstrate different modern techniques that I personally use myself when creating abstract paintings, as well as variety of different tools you will need to create an amazing, eye catching acrylic abstract paintings. I truly hope that you will enjoy watching!

Original modern and contemporary abstract art video lessons by Peter Dranitsin. All videos are copyright protected.

Creative Ideas for Decorating Your Home With Original Abstract Paintings

Today we decorate!  Such is the cry of the new homeowner, whether new to being a homeowner or new to this particular home.  And such is the challenge, to create a living space that is livable.  Saving the most intimate areas for last, let us take a virtual trip through the typical home.  First, we knock on the door and enter the foyer.  It is a smallish space that says so much about a visitor’s first glance into your home.  Is it welcoming?  Are there places for muddy shoes and dripping umbrellas?  Perhaps a coat rack or antique hat rack make the visitor glad to shed his outdoor gear and enter the indoor area of your gracious home.  A signature painting is on the wall.  It is smallish, too, a little abstract piece that he will recognize as a water lily.  He sees it, and smiles. 

After greeting him, you invite him into the great room.  This has been the most challenging to decorate due to its vaulted ceiling and wide expanse of floor space.  It’s designed for casually combining the living and dining aspects of home life, yet it seemed huge and impossible to decorate.  Thanks to the flair for finding decorating tips that somehow leaped up inside you, tips about color and groupings, you decide that, really, you are most happy with the results.  You’ve divided the large space into smaller ones using furniture groupings.  The fireplace is the focal point of the living area and so it has been made inviting with a loveseat and two overstuffed armchairs.  It is separate from the television area, which has a long sofa for groups to watch television in happy camaraderie.  At the far end of the great room is a window that cried out for a window seat, so you had one installed.  In the nook thus created, you placed eight small pieces of artwork, framed ornately in gold filigree.  When the reader tires of print and wants to change his point of view, he simply looks up and sees an outdoor vista through the window or he glances at the art, changing his mood as he admires the brushstrokes or the subject.  You think you are the happiest with this choice for the great room.

But wait, your guest must refresh himself.  You point him to the bathroom, and as he heads for the facility, he passes through a hallway that truly offered a dark pathway before, but now, thanks to your assiduously following the decorating tips, sports a wide painting showing a traveling scene with horse and elegant coach through English countryside.  It is lit by track lighting and this has transformed your previously dingy hall into a pleasant walk.  You rest assured that the bathroom is adequately stocked with floral soaps and individual hand towels, as well as a small print of an ancient Roman bathhouse, with an abstract floral on the opposite side of the mirror.

Your guest has turned and you glow with pride as he compliments you on your choices of color and furniture.  Since the great room is roomy enough to divide, you have installed two bookcases back to back as a divider between the conversational area and the reading area.  A slightly darker tone than is on the walls is on the ceiling of the room  and this adds coziness and closeness, while the area rugs give the illusion that there are really three or more specializing areas within the square footage.

After dinner in the kitchen that is just through a faux archway to add even more interest to the room, your guest is tired from his journey to visit you.  You rise and lead him to the guest room, cheerfully lit with a single overhead fixture and painted in a restful robins’ egg blue color.  He is grateful for the chance to recoup his strength and promises you that tomorrow he will tour the backyard and admire the garden you’ve told him about.  You can hardly wait to show him your expertise in the outdoors, too.

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Tools to Use When Creating Modern Abstract Paintings

There are number of tools that you can use to create a modern abstract paintings such as: wired brush, rags, sponges, brushes, pallet knives, spatulas, feathers, wood graining and others... Try to experiment with variations of different tools and you will find it very rewarding when you see the final results. I have shared a number of my abstract art techniques in my videos that I have posted on you tube as well as on my original online art gallery. I hope you will enjoy watching and have fun creating!

Abstract Painting on Canvas Techniques and Ideas by Peter Dranitsin

Simple Ways to Create a Contemporary Style Modern Abstract Painting.

In this abstract art video presentation I will share with you the simple modern acrylic techniques I personally use to create a contemporary style abstract art painting. The key ingredient is Simplicity!

Hi everyone, my name is Peter Dranitsin. I am a self representing artist from Cleveland Ohio. I grew up in a family where my mother is a professional artist and my father is a professional photographer. I have been painting professionally since 2006 and this is all I do. In my abstract art video lesson tutorials I will demonstrate different modern techniques that I personally use myself when creating abstract paintings, as well as variety of different tools you will need to create an amazing, eye catching acrylic abstract paintings. I truly hope that you will enjoy watching!

Original modern and contemporary abstract art video lessons by Peter Dranitsin. All videos are copyright protected.Hi everyone, my name is Peter Dranitsin. I am a self representing artist from Cleveland Ohio. I grew up in a family where my mother is a professional artist and my father is a professional photographer. I have been painting professionally since 2006 and this is all I do. In my abstract art video lesson tutorials I will demonstrate different modern techniques that I personally use myself when creating abstract paintings, as well as variety of different tools you will need to create an amazing, eye catching acrylic abstract paintings. I truly hope that you will enjoy watching!

Original modern and contemporary abstract art video lessons by Peter Dranitsin. All videos are copyright protected.

Landscape Paintings Speak To Us Through Their Inner Beauty

From time immemorial, the artist who paints in plain air tries to capture the moment of his existence and his vision through the medium of the landscape.  It doesn’t even have to be an irregular landscape, as the plains of Kansas glow into beauty in the springtime, flatly undifferentiated but wildflower-filled.  In time, the development of landscape paintings grew from a simple horizontal line representing the ground to suggestions of mountain peaks in the background of religious paintings and at last to the portrayal of vast landholdings as seen through a window in the portraits of the rich and famous.  By the time of the Dutch masters of the 17^th century, the large landscapes of Rubens showed a mastery of the techniques of perspective and delineating the subtle textures of outdoor light.  Painters in France and America developed their own unique schools, Corot in France as part of the Barbizon School and Cole in America as starting the Hudson River school of landscapists.  Alongside these developments in Western art were the Chinese mountain-water scrolls with their emphasis on the vertical placement of their subjects, naturally enough in the case of mountains.  Landscapes continue to hold our interest, as we admire such landscapists as Turner and Bierstadt, more in tune with what we consider a modern landscape in our 21^st century.

Landscapes lend themselves to figurative painting, but to abstract depictions as well.  Though mostly considered a realist painter, Andrew Wyeth’s art contains an underlying abstraction, in that he plucks not only beauty from the natural world in his landscapes, but a certain emphasis on pure shape and color.  For example, in perhaps his most famous painting, Christina’s World, the crippled girl Christina has only her back showing to the viewer.  Wyeth has left her face to our imaginations, but we see her brave struggle to crawl through the deliberately abstract grass to reach the sanctuary of her home. She could be used as an example of symbolism, as well, for her dogged determination in the face of her infirmity is inspirational.  As an example of abstraction painting, it has barely a touch of that quality, yet the painting is within abstraction’s sliding scale.

Now that you’ve chosen a landscape as your next painting, what is it to be?  A place you wish to visit, a place of your own personal fond memory, or something that appeals completely to your sense of aesthetics?  Landscapes come in all shapes and sizes, from grand historical scenes of the Roman ruins to the tiny miniatures of your regionalist painter, and you will certainly find an appealing one to display in your home.  You have the choice of one of the classic categories of landscape painting genres, categorized by the Dutch masters so long ago:  the moonlight scene, the forest scene, the battle scene, the village scene, or the farm scene.  Add to these categories the grandeur of a mountain scene or the expanse of an aerial view of a landscape, and you will see how landscape paintings remain one of the most popular categories of art.

Fire Yourself with Fire Abstract Art Paintings

Even if fire is defined as ‘combustion,’ our attraction to it cannot be so easily delineated.  Practically speaking, fire warms us, it cooks our food, it provides protection against the wilderness and its beasts waiting in the dark to devour us.  Beyond practicality is where the mystery lies, as fire dances and flares and leaps and grows and shrinks at last to glowing embers.  Why do we stare at it, entranced?  Why do we contain it in fireplaces in our homes when central heating provides better protection from winter’s chill?  Because when we admire fire, we admire its mutability, the changeableness that combustion brings to each split second of our vision: blue, purple, yellow, orange, red, all flicker across our retinas and we simply cannot stop absorbing all the spectra from a crackling fire.  Fire art allows us to control an uncontrollable essence, as much as is possible.

All artists desire to affect people, beginning with themselves and radiating outwards to the general public.  As such desires lead to action, the artist who works with fire art directly, physically affects his audience, in that fire warms us and lights our path even as it consumes its fuel.  Fire seems to be as alive as we are, moving and striving upwards to shed our light upon our immediate environment.  When we think of fire art, first and most famous of any fire art exhibitions is the Burning Man public festival, held in the Nevadan desert over Labor Day Weekend.  From its origins as a simple burning log in the midst of one of the most populous cities in California, fire art may be seen as a reminder of our dependence on fire’s energy to change our environment from completely natural to natural with man-made enhancements.  Observing as well as making fire art can be a humbling experience.

Even as fire is alive, it is dangerous.  Harkening back to childhood’s warnings of “Be careful, it’s hot!”, we as observers and adults pride ourselves on our knowledge of fire.  We don’t move too close, we appreciate fire’s true nature without desiring to be branded with its flame.  We do not desire a scar from a fire, we desire only to use fire as self-expression, as rebellion, as a community effort to define that which makes us civilized and to mark our sometimes uncivilized thoughts.

Modern fire art of the sort that stands upon a safe platform and generally forms from a framework is practiced with many different fuels.  Propane is the most common, the gas escaping from the tank shaped by different plumbing fixtures, pressures and nozzles and thus resulting in different flame shapes.  Refining the method even further, controlling how the propane mixes with the oxygen in our air can make a different effect upon the piece.  Adding colorants such as chlorine in powdered form to the flames is even more specialized and needs further safety measures, as colorants may be dangerous to both the artist and audience when breathed in.  These methods emphasize the danger in using fire, its beauty as well as its allure.  We all want to play with fire to some degree, and a fire artist has conquered the means to do so.

Hi everyone, my name is Peter Dranitsin. I am a self representing artist from Cleveland Ohio. I grew up in a family where my mother is a professional artist and my father is a professional photographer. I have been painting professionally since 2006 and this is all I do. In my abstract art video lesson tutorials I will demonstrate different modern techniques that I personally use myself when creating abstract paintings, as well as variety of different tools you will need to create an amazing, eye catching acrylic abstract paintings. I truly hope that you will enjoy watching!

Original modern and contemporary abstract art video lessons by Peter Dranitsin. All videos are copyright protected.

The Magic Behind Outerspace Abstract Paintings

We have wondered about outer space since we discovered planets, but the question of what does outer space look like had to wait until the 19^th century works of Jules Verne described them in prose and a little later until Melies dreamed up his fantastic backdrops for some of the very first motion pictures around 1900.  The moon is the first and best subject for outer space paintings, at least the ones that we have as a cultural input.  The moon has a face and whether or not the markings were subjective or not doesn’t matter, as artists portraying the moon were more interesting in capturing its gentle glow than in scientific accuracy.  The sun’s brightness is taken for granted as the sun is the illumination for our days and it almost seems an intelligent presence, full and steady in its light, day after day.  But the moon is filled with mystery, shrinking or growing in proscribed manner each night until it disappears completely.  The moon has a secret life, as do the planets as they wander through our night skies.

Chesley Bonestell is the artist who sparked a nation’s interest in outer space with his meticulously detailed paintings of planets, so rendered that you could swear you were actually standing on a moon of Saturn, gazing in awe at the rings of its beautiful mother planet.  For an inspiration of the untrod field of outer space paintings, Bonestell used his own astronomical sightings from telescopes, rushing home to do his art while his impressions were still fresh.  But for the scenes on planets that no one could possibly see in the mid-20^th century, he had only his imagination, laced with scientific theories of the time.  More and more, his techniques of painting which sprang from the disciplines of architecture, commercial drawing, and the magic of Hollywood special effects led him to be defined as the foremost astronomical painter.

An outer space artist needs a background in Earth’s topography and weather as well as the very latest input from astronomer’s research in order to develop a vision for a painting.  In this way, the outer space artist restores a bit of glory to the profession of artist, for when photography became prevalent in the mid-19^th century, the artist as illustrator lost some luster.  The artist’s engravings and photogravure efforts gave ground to the photographer’s science and ability to capture the intimate details of a scene.  But for the imaginative portrayals of planets other than our own, the outer space artist has no peer.  Working from spectrographic records and theoretical papers, this sort of artist arranges his canvas to grasp from his imagination the planetscapes of worlds not our own.

If your interests lie in the recent past via our ventures into space, you will enjoy a piece of outer space art hanging in your home, invoking thoughts of heroism and the realization that astronauts and cosmonauts have truly gone where no one has gone before.  An abstract painting of an aurora borealis as seen from reentry of a space vehicle, for instance, could not help but inspire you to get through your day with your own sort of heroics.  If your interests lie in speculative fiction and our future in space, then an outer space painting in the style of those pioneering outer space artists will spark your imagination each and every time you look at it.

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In this video I share with you how I painted one of my original landscape abstract paintings called "Time Reflection"

Advantage and Unique Qualities of Original Abstract Art vs Prints

Why would you want an original painting in any genre of art?  Why not buy a print or even run a copy of your favorite abstract piece off your home office copier or scanner?  Because as much as you are unique, your taste in art is unique and you desire more than a cheaply produced item in your possession.  Whether it is for a gift or a reward that you give to yourself, you desire the best that you can afford.  And original abstract paintings say to others just as much as you say to yourself, “I am unique.  My home is the showcase for my personality, and I own original art.”  When your home bespeaks your unique taste, it will shine as a refuge and place of warmth for your family and your friends.

Of course, our home is the first place of honor for our art choices, but when we want to delight our friends or family members with a truly unique gift, what do we think of?  We think of something signed, personally designated as that artist’s work of a certain time and place.  Original abstract art gives us the wherewithal to bestow upon our fellows a piece of time and we can’t do better than that.  Other professional reasons for purchasing original art may include investment, for the wisely-chosen piece of today is entrusted to the future of our personal wealth.  Moving beyond the independent aspect, if an institution hires you to be a personal ‘picker’ of well-thought-out art, your expertise will be valued even more when you opt to purchase original art.  Your client knows of your proclivity for good taste.  Why original abstract paintings?  The reasons are many, as you have seen.

Once you determine the reason for buying original abstract paintings, you may shop online in the ease of your own timeframe, browsing and sampling different artists, different galleries.  There are over 20000 websites selling art and you cannot go wrong by choosing to add an abstract painting to your home.  Don’t be afraid of displaying your taste and trusting in your own intuition.  Your personal taste is the final test.  Perhaps an artist is very popular and the painting is a good investment; so what?  The best choice for you is when a painting touches your emotions and you know it is something you can live with.

We are in awe of artists and their techniques for turning acrylic paint and canvas into a work of art using only brushes and their imaginations.  Good technique is valuable, certainly, but more valuable to you as a collector is that exciting spark that reaches from the artist to their work and back to you, the collector.  There is no substitute for that spark and if the piece simply doesn’t have it for you, then the fact that the artist can control his use of the material is irrelevant.  You will not enjoy the piece thoroughly, even though the artist is popular.  You are your own best judge of taste.

More Landscape Abstract Art Paintings for Your Enjoyment

Here is another landscape painting called "Carefully Planted" that I just added to my original online art gallery. This was a custom piece for one of my good customers. The idea here was to paint an abstract landscape with having trees on water. Three separate canvases different sizes: 18x24", 24x30", and 20x30" that is hung on different levels in relation to each other. The most rewarding thing for me is when I hear the person for whom the custom painting was created being sincerely exited about newly created painting! It is definitely priceless!

Original Landscape Painting "Nice to See You" by Peter Dranitsin

 

It is absolutely addicting to fall into a creative process of landscape abstract art! Taking real life subjects like trees and transforming them into something that no one has ever seen before.

What is Abstract Art and How Do We Approach It

When we think Abstract Art, what comes to mind? For most of us, it is a grand painting on canvas. It’s classic. And most of us want and even need art in our lives, from enthusiastic finger-painted drawings that our parents put on the refrigerator to our later efforts in higher education that we remember with pride. When we establish our own homes and at last get the moving boxes disposed of, we look around. What to do with those walls? Is it time to drag out the poster that we used to cover up a stain on our dreary apartment expanse of eggshell white? No, it’s time to get serious about art in our lives. This is where abstract art on canvas comes in.
Everyone makes art, to some degree. The style of clothing that we wear presents ourselves to the world in a form of art. Now how to extend our style to our homes, that is the question. We live in the 21st century, we have access via the internet to livetime tours of the Louvre and to the most recent local art festival, so all we have to do now is choose. The world of art on canvas is spread before us, impressionism and Dadaism and post-modernism, it all boggles the mind. Then one theme stands out: abstract art. There is a sliding scale of realism in abstract art and we like that. We could take a photograph and frame it if we wanted total realism, but we want art, that plucking out of nature the elements that strike our fancy and involve our minds. What is abstract art on canvas? We shall see how it is actually the culmination of centuries of artistic expression.
Our first finger-paintings might be called the handprints on a cave wall that our ancestors did when they expressed ourselves, but we are 21st century sophisticates. With the greater relevance of technology to modern society, a new sort of art emerges, abstract art that is built on the shoulders of the past yet looks forward to an ever-changing future. The thrill of abstract art is that it is absolutely up-to-the-moment and we feel truly like art collectors with a much larger budget when we have a piece of abstract art on our wall, enlivening the entire room with an artistic focal point. Abstract art on canvas offers the modern collector the most attainable form of creating an abstract art collection. Painted by an artist using the modern, long-lasting medium of acrylic paint, your new painting stands as the way to portray your home as a place of refinement.
So, you’ve chosen your artwork. You’ve found the perfect piece, in theme, size and color. Should you frame it, or not? Framed or hung simply using its stretchers at that perfect place in your home, you admire it for hours at a time. And then, the next logical step, you want to share it. Throw a party to showcase your new acquisition, mention it at work, take digital pictures and share it via emails to your friends and family, if you love it you will do all these things because art truly has an important place in your life. You have joined the 21st century.

What is Abstract Art

Best Tips in Creating Original Modern Abstract Art Paintings by Peter Dranitsin

Best Tips in Creating Original Modern Abstract Art Paintings by Peter Dranitsin

Creating something unusual and eye catching using acrylic paint on canvas is what I enjoy the most when creating my modern abstract art paintings. To be honest with you I do not spend most of my time coming up with the ideas for my artworks, instead I dive into creating process by going with the optimistic feelings and self propelling energy. Creating paintings spontaneously with minimum effort of preplanned sketch is what make this process so much enjoyable and fun.
Hi everyone, my name is Peter Dranitsin. I am a self representing artist from Cleveland Ohio. I grew up in a family where my mother is a professional artist and my father is a professional photographer. I have been painting professionally since 2006 and this is all I do. In my abstract art video lesson tutorials I will demonstrate different modern techniques that I personally use myself when creating abstract paintings, as well as variety of different tools you will need to create an amazing, eye catching acrylic abstract paintings. I truly hope that you will enjoy watching!

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