Abstract MM1 by Ralph Taylor

I;m not a great fan of abstract, but there are those abstracts out there that just catch your eye and this did it for me, it has great texture and I love the way the pieces of polystyrene are placed, they sort of give the impression of dried flowers and leaves, and I love the darker shadows at the bottom, truly beautiful painting, I love it :-).

I really like your use of colour and the shadows finish it off very well. Very nice.

Interesting texture, which I am sure we are not seeing to its best as a photo. I have also dabbled in abstracts with texture as you might have seen on my gallery. I find use of texture sort of frees up work as you can really fiddle too much when you are dealing with rough texture as a base. I used various hand made papers and corrugated cardboard with texture paste and wood based glue. I have never thought of polystyrene but i suppose with acrylic paint you can cover it and model it as you like. I will give it a try. Thanks for posting this and well done for trying something new.

I haven't the right sort of imagination to paint abstracts, but I like a good one when I see it, and this is a good one. It has the lot, really - texture, warm colour, interesting shapes, and a different perspective depending on the light thrown on it and the direction from which it's examined.

Very good indeed! Polystyrene would not be my first choice or not a choice at all but it seems to work very well so good luck with abstracts and please do more.

Thanks for all the comments and emails about this work. Your encouragement means a lot to me.