Abstract art oil painting -Surround the lighted waves by Laurie Rubell

Surround the Lighted Waves is an original two-canvas abstract figurative oil painting by Laurie Rubell. The two canvases are designed to hang together as one composition, although they may also be displayed separately.

Creating paintings across multiple canvases allows me to explore the inside and outside of the edges. Through color, line and space, I think about the starts and endings of each moment as the painting develops.

This painting took approximately three months to complete. I began with blank, hand-stretched canvases and washes of dark blue oil color. The right canvas was turned to allow the color to drip naturally, establishing the beginning of the composition.

As the painting developed, figures in motion emerged above the clouds among drips of color, shapes and lines in shades of blue. I worked directly on the canvases without preliminary sketches, allowing the composition to change as I painted.

My process uses more than fifty different sizes and styles of artist brushes and a palette drawn from more than one hundred tubes of oil color.

Each painting is a one-of-a-kind original. I do not create prints or limited editions.

• Original abstract figurative oil painting
• Two-canvas diptych designed to hang together
• Oil on hand-stretched canvas
• Left canvas: 30 × 66 × 1.5 inches
• Right canvas: 30 × 66 × 1.5 inches
• Layered shades of blue with expressive drips, shapes and lines
• One-of-a-kind original — no prints or limited editions
• Signed and dated on the back

 Part 1 – Why I Create Two-Canvas Oil Paintings

Read Part 2: How My Abstract Diptych Paintings Developed