Artist Inspired: Piet Mondrian Inspired Abstracted Oil Pastel Trees

Do you love getting inspired by other artists' artistic approaches and artwork? 

I love getting inspired by the artistic processes and imagery of other artists. It's always so fun to learn about their creative process, artist journey, and explore their art approaches as we continue to grow and explore within our own artistic journey.

In this class we'll look at how Dutch artist Piet Mondrian explored ways to abstract trees throughout his art career. Mondrian created paintings of trees throughout his life. As he sought to create more and more abstract artworks he gradually reducing his paintings down to their most basic elements: line, primary color, and simple shapes. You can decide how abstract you'd like to go, taking a cue from various points in Mondrian's artistic journey into abstraction. We'll be using oil pastel to mimic oil paint and give us the bold freedom to quickly play with line, color, and image abstraction 

By the end of this class you'll have: 

• Learned a bit about the artwork of Piet Mondrian
• Looked at a variety of his artworks and his journey from realism into abstraction
• Explored how much and how little we can include as we play with abstracting trees into our own art practice
• Created an oil pastel artwork that leans online, color, and shape to depict an abstract view of a tree

This class is intended for art history loving, creatives of all skill levels as we look to artists of the past and present for inspiration in our own artistic journey. 

Similar Classes You Should Check Out:

Did you know that this class is part of a series of Artist Inspired Classes? Check out some of my other artist inspired classes below:

Explore Mixed Media Collage Portraits Inspired by Pablo Picasso: If you enjoy exploring how to manipulate imagery such as playing with angles, exaggerated curves, distortion, then you'll love this mixed media collage class where we play with portrait distortion similar to the work of Pablo Picasso.

Organic Mixed Media Collage Inspired by Henri Matisse: Lean further into abstraction as we look to the later collage work of Henri Matisse in this mixed media abstract collage class.