Mindscape, Cubic Abstraction on Canvas

Mindscape Painting by Borbay 2014

Have you ever seen an abstract painting and wondered what the hell the artist was thinking? Well, here are my thoughts on the process of abstract painting. The title of this piece is “Mindscape” — but I’ll get into that later. It’s 20″X20″, Acrylic on Canvas.

Mindscape Painting Process by Borbay 2014

I’m a Virgo… as such, in my work, styles shift glacially over the course of many years. Occasionally, I like to try something really different — this painting was that.

Mindscape Painting Process by Borbay 2014

As a sterling 2.98 student in college, I spent many hours sketching in my text books. Most became free-flowing, geometrical masses sprawling in several directions.

Mindscape Painting Process by Borbay 2014

So, channeling the past and drawing with a clear mind… this is the mindscape that developed. It seemed to make a great deal of sense to me. As always, I painted with a size 1 brush. Go-Go-Virgo.

Mindscape Painting Process by Borbay 2014

I went for one-and-done layers, beginning with careful gradients, but alas, none of this work would survive on the final surface.

Mindscape Painting Process by Borbay 2014

Here I began to fill in the forms in flat tones to get rid of the white spaces. The color choices were fluid, but intentional. I was trying to find correlative planes to twist the form.

Mindscape Painting Process by Borbay 2014

As in all of my night paintings, the under-painting is daytime…. then, I turn out the lights and pop a few back on.

Mindscape Painting Process by Borbay 2014

Here it all made sense… when I wasn’t painting, I was looking and plotting colors.

Mindscape Painting Process by Borbay 2014

Pretty much there… at this point, I took a break and ate Thanksgiving Dinner.

Mindscape Painting by Borbay 2014

And the final… an exploration in Abstraction and Cubism… I really enjoyed creating this. It was refreshing to build colors based on form without attempting to represent anything (though, someone on Instagram insisted it was a Transformer — alas, they do not drug test users prior to posting comments).

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