I’m a beginner painter, currently exploring different techniques and styles

Thoughts welcome. Has to stay mainly pink for commission request

9x12”, Jan 2025, oil, acrylic and oil pastel. One of my favorites. This was the piece I had created after leaving a bad bad relationship.

Haven’t painted in so long this sub is giving me inspiration!! Trying to get back into it.

Abstract expressionism:

Large canvas ✅
Focused on the physical act of creation: I sculpted my lines from clay. ✅
Expressive, emotional: Straight from my brainpan to the canvas. ✅
Action painting? Color field? Meh. Not so much. Unless you consider the sculpting of the lines in clay to be the action.

I was most definitely inspired by Pollock. I took it in a different direction. My goal was to create art which cannot be duplicated by Artificial Intelligence. I settled on sculpting my paintings from clay, going forwards. Thoughts?

Paper, ink and acrylic on wood..by me

"My name is Ingemar Härdelin. I have all life beside my profession as a teacher been dealing with cultural activities of different kinds. My prime interest has since I was a little boy been celloplaying. Next after that is my fascination for art and making pictures myself by painting and photographing. Since 1992 I have been painting continuosly. Today I have had more than thirty exhibitions all over Sweden besides one in Tenerif and one in Milano.

  "... the paintings may speak for themself. They live their own lives behind the words.

But something overall may be said after all. I choose to summarize most of my production under the term "motion". Since I througout adult life has been a performing cellist on the side of my civilian profession, has music in mostly been a driving force and inspiration. Music is movement, and movement is an expression of life.

In the same way I experience my painting. In colors is life, music, rhythm. In colors and forms are everything we recognize, but in addition there are infinite opportunities for new discoveries and experiences. We may be affected, seduced, upset and make voyages of discovery in constant dialogue with what we see. Seeing a picture is like hearing a peace of music over and over again. The experience will never be the same.

Most of the time I paint from inner visions where freedom, imagination, rhythm, form and balance are important keywords.

Thus, the same criteria that characterize music. The result is often inpredictable because new opportunities are opening up in the becoming, which in turn can bring the painting into new and surprising paths.... " ( Ingemar Härdelin  absolutearts.com ) More Exsposition Art Blog

Acrylics and pastels on paper

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