TATE Collection II: Ayres Acrylic

Using a brush wet the paper in a square shape. Apply colour while the paper is still wet, allowing colour to disperse.

Add less water to your paint and liberally paint a square of Ultramarine within the first square with your thicker paint. Allow to dry and apply a second coat.

Follow the edge of the square using a medium brush with loose marks punctuating the edge. Finish with gestural guide lines around the blue square.

Using Titanium White make an arrangement of shapes and gestural lines.

Apply Lemon Yellow on top, allowing colours to create a glaze or new layer.

Create more shapes using other colours, experiment with more loose marks. Observe how some colours are naturally more opaque than others.

Add accents of other colours and marks.

Finish by adding bold, expressive gestural marks until you feel your painting is complete.