Veronica Hughes: Abstract Living Room Art

When I took all of my holiday decor down,I loved being able to give my home a fresh new look. I had grabbed a piece of art from my bedroom to add some color in, and while I loved how it looked in my living room, I really missed it in my bedroom. Our DecoArt challenge this month was to paint a piece of canvas art with the Americana Premium line of paints (which I love!). I decided to paint a new piece of abstract living room art, so I could return the one to my bedroom. I used Americana Premium paints, and an old wood canvas I had, to create something that fit perfectly in my space.

Paint over wood canvas to make abstract living room art

I started by painting over the old image on the wood board with Americana Premium Titanium White acrylic paint. I left the frame in it’s original state because I love the wood tone and contrast.

DecoArt Americana premium paint

After the base coat dried, I started by picking up some Phthalo Blue on my paint brush and making some wide downward strokes.

Start painting your abstract art by making wide strokes downward

I Repeated the strokes in an overlapping manor. After I had added as much blue as I wanted, I used the Americana Premium Paint in Carbon Black.

Painting abstract living room art with wide brush strokes in Carbon Black and Pthalo blue.

I took a break,grabbed some coffee, and let those colors dry. Once they were dry, I used the Titanium White to go back over the strokes of blue and black, and painted a translucent square. After the white paint dried, I used some gold leafing to add shine. I love to gold leaf, it’s such a fun process, like these bottles I had made last year.

Adding gold leaf to abstract art. #goldleafing #acrylicpainting

Once the gold leaf was on, my art was ready to hang. The nice thing about using something that was already on the wall, was that it already has a frame, and the hangers are already there!

Abstract art with gold leafing