Weekly BobBlast Issue 515

Floating & Constellation Compositions Work Together!

Welcome Back to Another BobBlast!

This week’s BobBlast is about two composition designs that work very well separately or combined in a painting:

Floating

Constellation

A Constellation Composition is exactly what you think it is… Design elements in your painting are located all over the place. Design-wise, there appears to be no beginning or a final place for the eye to focus. The same holds true when scanning the night sky. Trillions and billions of stars... too much information! However, the brain comprehends all this visual information by grouping together like or similar stars; thus, the zodiac.

Your painting may be a constellation structure when elements are all over the place - However, the viewers will go to some focal point. The focal point will be the part of the painting that is the most different. The part that draws attention to itself, or the reason why the artist painted this work in the first place.

Floating Composition is also what it sounds like… free flowing shapes or marks on a gradated or variegated background so the shapes appear to float–not anchored to anything!

Look at Miró’s Constellation Paintings and the Surrealists for some excellent Floating examples.

What makes these two compositions work–even with all free flowing, is they have a strong focal point and an ordered direction in the chaos!

The Demo is a non-objective painting, graphically communicating the title “Floating and Orbiting.” Sounds like a new series of objects orbiting in space! Here I go…

Selecting a strong graphic design composition is one of my 5Cs that I use to create a painting. To learn more, come to my Monthly Demo on June 5 and watch me do a Demo about Contrast in Abstract Paintings.

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•June 5, 2024

“Creating Contrast in Abstract Painting”

•July 17, 2024

"Putting the WOW in your Painting"

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•May 29, 2024

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•June 16-21, 2024

"Non-Objective Mixed Media"

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AND

•June 22-23, 2024

"Loose Florals & Landscapes"

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•October 14-18, 2024

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•June 1-2, 2024

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•September 27-29, 2024

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•June 1-2, 2024

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•June 5, 2024

Bob’s Monthly Demo - ONLINE DEMO

“Creating Contrast in Abstract Painting”

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•June 10-14, 2024

Robert Burridge 5-Day Instructional Studio Workshop - IN-PERSON WORKSHOP

Abstract Acrylic Painting & Collage

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•June 16-21, 2024

Non-Objective Mixed Media

Dillman’s Art Workshop Retreat, Lac du Flambeau, WI

Contact (715) 588-3143 or art@dillmans.com

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•June 22-23, 2024

Loose Florals & Landscapes

Dillman’s Art Workshop Retreat, Lac du Flambeau, WI

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•June 26, 2024

Abstract Florals from Loose, Colorful Splatters - ONLINE WORKSHOP

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•July 20-21, 2024

Larger, Looser Abstract Paintings - ONLINE WORKSHOP

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•July 26-28, 2024

Robert Burridge 3-Day Instructional Studio Workshop

Larger and Looser Abstract Painting

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•October 14-18, 2024

Loosen Up Painting Retreat

Bar Harbor, Maine

Sponsored by Madeline Island School of the Arts

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or misa@madelineschool.com

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•January 6-10, 2025

Abstract Acrylic Painting & Collage

Tanque Verde Ranch, Tucson, AZ

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•January 18-25, 2025

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Boca de Tomatlan, 10 miles South of Puerto Vallarta

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Floating & Constellation Compositions Work Together!

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Weekly BobBlast 515 - Video run time 10 minutes, 42 seconds

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