Amazon.com description: Product Description: Are you looking for a way to breathe new life into old, tired, or generic methods of abstract painting? This book challenges readers to depart from traditional academic approaches by exploring alternative techniques and resources, empowering the artist to effectively transfer their ideas and visions onto the canvas.

Learn everything you need to know about abstract art with this instructive guide that helps intermediate-to advanced-level artists:

• Recognize abstract images in their surroundings, break down objects into constituent forms, and manipulate texture and color
• Develop different methods and applications of color, texture, and materials with step-by-step exercises
• Explore the different styles of abstractionism
• Apply practical techniques that develop a personal abstract style
• Select and approach the first abstract project

With hundreds of photographs throughout, this exhaustive resource of easy-to-understand techniques will free artists to explore a new abstract art project, from earliest conception through to completion.