There is always a first time for Abstract Art

5 Elements of Design

Through out my life as and artist, I have embraced painting as something you see, then you can put in your canvas or paper. I always looked at abstract art as something with no rhythm or reason. I was wrong!

One day a friend of mine who loves to do abstract art to relax and unwind, spoke to me about a event he had with a humming bird. We spoke about spirit animals, the Mexican tradition of “Alebrijes” and other crazy stories like Harry Potter touching on those concepts.

After our conversation I started to think how his spirit humming bird would look like. As I could not reproduced what he saw and I though of it more of as an abstract concept. Being an Architect and and Interior designer, I thought of the 5 elements of design:

• Arrival

• Path

• Nodes

• Domains

• Center

Each one of these make exterior and interior spaces and we humans perceived them as organized pattern and they can actually change our behavior.

So the experiment started with 5 basic regulating lines that will become the paths to create domains and centers of interest in the image that I wanted to create. That is how it all evolved.

Now I experiment with color, figure ground, hues, tones,shade and rhythms.

I hope you enjoy my experiments.