Process Post - AB EX

For my AB EX process, I felt like I drew a lot from Basquiat and de Koonig. I know Basquiat isn't an AB EX painter, but his whole thing of taking things from pop culture or whatever media he might've been consuming at the time was something I incorporated into my art, in a much more abstract sense. Like, I did marks based on the music I was listening to, or I'd do a blind contour of a scene from a movie or a well-known painting, and then paint it in.

I did a lot for slapping paint on the canvas and then smoothing it out, either with my hand or with the palette knife. I felt like my paintbrush was a little too big for me to do what I wanted with the paint, so oftentimes I'd use my fingers or the palette knife instead. I didn't want to use a smaller brush as I still wanted there to be a kind of wild, less controlled feel in the marks, but I found it hard to make the colors and marks I wanted with a big brush.

This is the finished product.