How to Paint an Abstract Guitar
- 1). Cover the canvas, artboard or masonite with three to four coats of acrylic gesso. Allow to dry to the touch before continuing. This may take up to four hours.
- 2). Use the curves and the shape of the guitar for inspiration, and draw the outline of your image on the primed surface using a water-soluble pencil or chalk. Sketch in geometric-inspired details around the outline and inside the guitar shape itself, if you want.
- 3). Using opaque paint, fill in the sketch you've just drawn. While any colors can be used, abstract art is often filled with bright contrasting colors or many colors from the same color family.
- 4). Allow to dry. This may take several hours for watercolors. Acrylic paints should be dry within three hours and completely cured overnight. Oil paints may take several weeks to cure, if a lot of paint has been applied.