The conscience of working on a painting is first draw and then paint. That's what we are taught since childhood at home and in school. Although painting with fingers and props like stamps made out of produce or designed at home have been commonly practiced for many decades. But its always necessary to make shapes or figures or something out of it which should look like a definitive image which can be easy to relate to something already seen. In my knowledge, few preschools discourage scribbling or just throwing paints on paper. ' Colour within the lines' is what they call it. Make a border, outline the figure, etc.
Well 'A clear conscience is a good pillow'.
Want to know what happens if the energy and imagination needed to keep it in the lines is redirected to adding creativity? Wonders!
The art need not be the exact replica of the source, but a lookalike. Sometimes it may depict a mystery and that gives art collectors their job. It's not just fancy to study an art, its a riddle and that's what the fuss is all about. It makes painting fun and interesting.
Therefore, a painting doesn't always need drawing skills. It needs the urge to bring the imagination on canvas. Examples of popular forms of art that don't require sketching are:
Pour: Acrylic pour, dutch pour, balloon dip, spiral dip, string pull and new techniques keep inventing daily depending on tools and mediums used.
Abstract Art: Keeping it simple (excluding historical terminology), abstract art can be categorized into six types namely Curvilinear, Colour-Related or Light-Related, Geometric, Emotional or Intuitional, Gestural and minimalist.
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