Contemporary Abstract Oil Textured Painting by Brad Rickerby

Colors2

9" x 12" x 1.5"

 Abstract Oil on Canvas

$47.00 (with 10% donated to charity)

Painting by Brad Rickerby

Available for sale.

Pretty much the same as the last painting. I have to admit that the work of Gerhard Richter wasn't far from my mind when I created this.

This painting is for sale and 10% of the very low price will be donated to charity.

For more information, please contact me at brad@bradrickerby.com.

Paul Klee

 Colour and I are one. I am a painter.  


Paul Klee, 1914.

Contemporary Abstract Oil Textured Painting by Brad Rickerby

Colors

9" x 12"

 Abstract Oil on Wood

$47.00 (with 10% donated to charity)

Painting by Brad Rickerby

Available for sale.

I took one look at the work of Gerhard Richter and knew that I had to try to emulate it. Let me tell you, it is a lot harder to do than you might think. Here is my attempt (I have another coming soon). It took several months to complete because of all the thick oil paint that had to dry in between all of the many layers.In the end, all I can say is that it is different from what I have done before and it certainly is colorful. I will absolutely spend time trying to refine this technique.

I started with a layer of Zinc White applied thickly with a palette knife. I made sure to leave wrinkles in the spreading of the paint.When the white layer dried, I started spreading layers of color, two or three at a time so they would mix on the surface. These layers where also spread with a palette knife and I made sure that the wrinkles were emphasized. As I went along like this, I used the palette knife to scrape lines, seemingly at random, into the surface of the wet paint. I repeated this process several times, making sure to leave some of the initial white layer showing through for contrast and depth.

If you are interested in purchasing this work, please contact me by email at brad@bradrickerby.com.

My art website is http://www.colorlightmovement.com

Daily Painters Abstract Gallery: Life In Circles #9-Pink Art for the Cure, 5"x7", $47.00 Painting # 23 of the Club 47 Challenge,Original Contemporary Abstract Expressionism Paintings,Colorado Contemporary Abstract Artist Kimberly Conrad

Daily Painters Abstract Gallery: Life In Circles #9-Pink Art for the Cure, 5"x7", $47.00 Painting # 23 of the Club 47 Challenge,Original Contemporary Abstract Expressionism Paintings,Colorado Contemporary Abstract Artist Kimberly Conrad

Contemporary Abstract Acrylic Textured Painting by Brad Rickerby

Active

8" x 8" x 1.5"

 Abstract Acrylic on Canvas

$47.00 (with 10% donated to charity)

Painting by Brad Rickerby

There is a lot of energy in this painting. Probably because I spent so much energy throwing paint on to the canvas. I used the same technique here as I did for the others in this series of paintings. The background for this painting is Ultramarine Blue mixed with the slightest dab of Titanium White. The next layer of paints were reds, mostly cadmiums. I then tried to cover the red layer with multiple colors, basically anything that seemed right at the moment. A large percentage of the yellows I used were mixed with Titanium White. The ratio is a lot of white to a touch of yellow. I know that is very exact, but I just keep mixing colors until I have what I want.

A note on color. I never (almost) use paint straight out of the tube. There are so many more beautiful colors that can be made by mixing. And the beauty of the painting is, in the final analysis, dependent on the beauty of the colors in it. In many cases I will mix color right on the canvas. For this painting, and the others in the series, I mixed the colors on the palette prior to throwing them on to the canvas.

Contemporary Abstract Acrylic Textured Painting by Brad Rickerby

Chaos

6" x 6" x 1.5"

 Abstract Acrylic on Canvas

$47.00 (with 10% donated to charity)

Painting by Brad Rickerby

Available for sale.

This is another in my series of letting go. Starting off this time with a deep red base, I just load up brush fulls of white mixed with blue and blue mixed with white nd throw them at the canvas. I keep turning the canvas clock wise (or counter if you prefer) and using smaller and smaller brushes (which leave less paint with each throw) until I am satisfied that I have created chaos. While it is chaos, the interlocking of the lines provides for a closed system. 

This is a smallish painting with painted sides, so it is ready to hang. 10% of the proceeds of your purchase will be donated to charity (I still have to make up my mind about which one). Please contact me by email at brad@bradrickerby.com if you have questions or are interested in purchasing this work.

Contemporary Abstract Acrylic and Watercolor Painting by Brad Rickerby

Landscape 2

8"x 10"

 Abstract Acrylic & Watercolor on Mat Board

$47.00 (I will donate 10% of all $47.00 paintings to charity)

Painting by Brad Rickerby

Available for sale.

This is the same technique used for Seascape #1 discussed in the prior post, with the following exceptions. 1) The sky turned out to be the sky in this painting and, 2) I bunched the saran wrap much more heavily over undiluted acrylic ink. The result was that the marks created by the saran wrap are much more visible.

I'm enjoying this technique and will certainly do more.

Does anyone have any color combination suggestions?

By the way, I am sell this painting at $47.00 as part of a challenge put together by a number of artists. 10% of the money I collect from this challenge will go to charity.

My email address is brad@bradrickerby.com.

Contemporary Abstract Acrylic and Watercolor Painting by Brad Rickerby

Seascape 1

8" x 10"

 Abstract Acrylic and WatercolorPainting on Matt Board

$47 (with 10% donated to charity)

Painting by Brad Rickerby

Available for sale.

I love this pretty and subtle little piece. It started off with the blue being sky, but when my girlfriend turned it over, we both knew immediately that it was actually ocean. So is the way of art.

This painting was created with acrylic ink (by liquitex) and watercolor paint. The sea (or sky, if you must) is Ultramarine Blue watercolor. I painted it onto a dry board but thinned the watercolor with a lot of water so the flow was easy. I placed a piece of wax paper on the blue area and rubbed it down over the entire surface area.

My acrylic ink was prepared in small squirt bottle. A combination of two inks were squirted just a little under the wax paper. The colors were Burnt Sienna and Sap Green. Next I squirted a combination of red and blue inks over the larger part of the board. I placed saran wrap over the uncovered area of the board and pressed the wrap down. Burnt Sienna was squirted on any area of the board the remained unpainted. The saran wrap was the bunched up to create lines and texture, but still covering the entire painting not covered by wax paper.

I put heavy books on top of the whole painting and waited until the painting was completely dry before removing the wax paper and saran wrap. The combination of the two covers make very different kinds of marks. You can clearly sea the pattern left in the ocean (err, sky) but the pattern left by the saran wrap is much more subtle and is better seen in the actual painting.

This one was fun and great because it leaves a lot of room for experimentation without requiring a huge commitment of time.

I am donating 10% of the proceeds of this painting to charity (probably the ASPCA) and will do so with other paintings until the middle of November 2011. If you are interested in purchasing this work it is $47.00 and you can reach me at brad@bradrickerby.com.

Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting by Brad Rickerby

City

12" x 12"

 Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas

Painting by Brad Rickerby

Available for sale.

This is an old favorite of mine. It doesn't have the sophistication that my newer painting are beginning to aspire to, but it does have a sense of whimsy and playfulness that I like. The paint was applied with palette knives. The texture, such as the windows and the spires on the building were created with several different tools - basically, whatever was close by on the table that looked like it would create an interesting mark. We are talking about brushes turned upside down, or the palette knife with teeth turned on its side. I did a whole series of these urban paintings and I'm going to bet that you see more here soon.

As always, you can purchase the painting or a fine art print of same. Please contact me at brad@bradrickerby.com for more information.

Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Acrylic Painting by Brad Rickerby

Energy

12" x 12" x 1.5"

 Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas

Painting by Brad Rickerby

Available for sale.

I continue to strive for freedom. To allow pure creativity to flow. Yes, I know the rules of composition (thirds be damned!) and can talk about line, form and value. Having studied these words, I want to exclude them from my thoughts as I paint. These concepts form a frame work, a reference point. Now I mix paint on the fly and touch brush to canvas only as guided by emotion and the feeling of what should come next. The color knows where to go. The brush moves on its own. My hand provides only motive power. 

My art website is http://www.colorlightmovement.com

My email address is brad@bradrickerby.com.

Mark Rothko

I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. ~ Mark Rothko

Jackson Pollock

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. ~ Jackson Pollock

Henri Matisse

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look. — Henri Matisse 

Pablo Picasso

“Everything you can imagine is real.”  -Pablo Picasso

Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Acrylic Painting by Brad Rickerby

On The Run

6 x 12"

 Abstract Liquid Acrylic Painting on Paper

Painting by Brad Rickerby

Available for sale.

More setting my self free. I want to play with colors, to ignore line, form and composition. I want the painting to be about the interplay of the colors, how they change as they mix and intermingle. To hell with structure and restrictions. Just live. Just breathe!

I curled the paper and then set it on a downward slope, so the liquid acrylics would just run down the paper, leaving a trail of color behind them. Some of the paint I threw, some I just let spill on the sides and from the top. The paint pooled at the bottom into and ugly gray. So I chopped the bottom off.

I adore freedom!

Contact me at brad@bradrickerby.com for questions. comments or to buy the piece.

Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Acrylic Painting by Brad Rickerby

Emotion 3,

20 x 20 x 1.5"

 Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas

Ready to Hang

Painting by Brad Rickerby

Available for sale.

Another in my series of emotion filled abstract expressionist paintings. As my last post, on the effect Beethoven and painting said, I'm starting to feel free, alive even, when I just let go and pour feeling, guided by just a vague outline of a plan, into these paintings. I'm starting to like the feeling of doing these paintings. It is very possible that you will see a lot more of these. On my Facebook art page www.facebook.com/bradrickerbyarts, one very kind gentleman said that these paintings reminded him of the old abstract expressionists. Since those are paintings that I love, I take his comments as a very high compliment. (If you want to "Like" me on my Facebook Arts page, that would be great!!)

The technique here is much the same as the last painting. I start off with 2" brushes and put on a dark multicolor base. I follow up with smaller and smaller brushes with a variety of different colors (I plan to start working with a more limited palette soon).All of my brush strokes, including the base coat layer are done as curves or squiggles. Any use of a straight line is always on a diagonal. I want the painting to be alive with motion. I also want the painting to have many textures. I pick up large amounts of paints on my brushes and use a couple of different kinds of acrylic media to accomplish this.In this painting I throw very little paint on at the end, the exact opposite of what I did in the painting below. This time I wanted a lot of the color from the many different layers to show through.

You can purchase the original painting or fine quality prints of this creating. Simply contact me at brad@bradrickerby.com

Beethoven

I love painting to Beethoven! My brush, filled with color, rising and falling with every note. The energy in his sublime music transfer through my arm and hand to the canvas, creating beauty, reflecting joy. When the mind clears, when it is just music and color and canvas, it is peace, it is power, it is an orgy of feeling, emotion, expression, freedom.

Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Acrylic Painting by Brad Rickerby

Off White

24 x 24 x 1.5"

Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas

by Brad Rickerby

Sides Painted - Ready to Hang

Technical note: The painting is brighter than it appears here. Because of all the white, it was basically impossible to photograph and show its real colors without blowing out the highlights (that is photo speak for making the photograph look bad).

This is, I believe, the largest painting I have ever done, and it took the longest too. The idea was once again to find a sense of freedom in the process of the painting. To just let go and paint. Letting go is great for the painting and for my sense of well being too.

I started this painting with large, 2 inch brushes and dark full color paint, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Dioxazine Purple to name a couple. At the same time I put on bunches of Course Pumice Gel to give patches of texture. Once dry I started with various and successively smaller brushes painting until the vast majority of the darker colors were covered. There is virtually no straight white paint in this work. Each white that you see is actually a Titanium White mixed with a small amount (very small, like I would stick my palette knife in, point down, and just use whatever small amount of paint adhered to to knife) of reds, yellows, blues and purples. The only unblended Titanium White are six streaks that I threw unto the canvas from a container of Liquitex soft acrylic paint.

This took a lot more paint than I usually used, but the end result was worth it. I always wear headphones when I paint. This was almost all done to Mozart and Bach.

Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Acrylic Painting by Brad Rickerby

Excitement,

12 x 12 x 1.5""

 Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas

Ready to Hang

Painting by Brad Rickerby

Available for sale.

I wanted to do a painting that was totally by instinct, completely by feeling. I wanted to let my emotion take control over my technique. I laid out some tubes of acrylic paint, Titanium White, Kings Blue, Napthol Crimson, Dioxazine Purple, to name a couple. Then I started to twirl the brushes. I started with a two inch brush to lay the base. Then moved to a one incher and finally to a series of smaller brushes. All the time just twirling. I wanted as much movement as I could get. I wanted to convey the emotion, the raw excitement that I felt about just letting go. I also, in my twirls, wanted to mix the colors together so they would not have that out of the tube look. I guess I was thinking a little. Finally I put some Titanium White on a big fan brush and threw it at the painting. Once, twice, three times I hurled the paint. 

The sides of this work are painted so it is ready for immediate hanging. It is also priced to move. If you are interested you can contact me at brad@bradrickerby.com.

Reproductions of the painting are also available at Fine Art America through the link on the upper right of this page.

Contemporary Abstract Acrylic Palette Knife Painting by Brad Rickerby

Brilliance #2

6 x 6 x 7/8" Acrylic on Canvas Painting

Ready to be Hung

by Brad Rickerby

Available for sale, prints also available

This will be a short description. I set out to refine the techniques that I used in Brilliance #1 (see below). First, I knew this is what I wanted the outcome to look like from the beginning. So I set out with a plan that follow the experiment that I had previously used. I wanted more of the undertone dark colors to show through (which provides more depth and dimension to the creation) and I wanted the knife strokes to mix more colors within themselves.  Lastly I wanted the composition to be less linear. The idea was to let the more tightly planned painting look freer. I think I accomplished what I set out to, but that both paintings have qualities that are respectively better than the other.