Watch this mysterious Samurai Warrior emerge from an atmospheric abstract background! ⚔️🎨 Created with acrylic paint, brushes, fingers, and expressive techniques, this painting combines a dramatic samurai silhouette with warm earthy colors, distressed textures, bold abstract marks, and energetic splatter. Finger painting helps shape, blend, and subtract color from the samurai, while brushes add expressive… [Read more]
PART 1 — Preparing the Canvas and Building the Textured Monochrome Background This painting is built around a very simple idea: use only black, white, and the grays created between them, then combine traditional brushwork with direct finger painting. The butterfly eventually becomes the strongest focal point, but the background is just as important. Instead… [Read more]
BEFORE YOU BEGIN CANVAS PREPARATION Use a 12 x 14 inch canvas. For this painting, begin with a previously painted or pre-colored dark canvas. Any dark acrylic color can work. The important thing is that the surface is completely dry before beginning the actual painting. A deep green, dark brown, charcoal, black-green, or another muted… [Read more]
PART 1 – PREPARING THE CANVAS AND CREATING THE AGED GOLD ABSTRACT BACKGROUND This Samurai Warrior painting begins with a background that is just as important as the figure itself. Before the samurai appears, we create a warm, distressed, atmospheric surface that looks aged, weathered, smoky, and almost archaeological. The goal is not to paint… [Read more]
