Some Abstract Art Painting is done entirely from the artist's imaginations, but I find it essential to have something 'real' as the starting point. Something that gives me a direction to start working in, to kickstart my imagination. I like to explore or echo the contours of the shapes. I start with one color, and paint the lines of the negative spaces. Then select another color and paint another line alongside the red ones, then do it agian with another color.

Figurative abstractions are abstractions or simplifications of reality, where detail is eliminated from recognisable objects leaving only the essence or some degree of recognisable form.

In Western art history, the break from the notion that a painting had to represent something happened in the early 20th century