Week 4:

Add your finishing touches. Finishing touches, especially on an abstract like this, could mean many things.

This could include:

• Gluing additional pieces
• Repainting some shapes
• Outlining shapes
• Turning the orientation of the entire piece
• Changing how pieces are overlapping each other

See your piece from a distance before you finalize it. The great thing about abstract is the word "perfect" means different things to different people.

Above else, have fun and enjoy yourself.

Week 3:

Choose your composition out of the options you designed. Think about how to elevate pieces on top of one another and begin the construction of your piece. Make sure it's stable and well secured so you can hang your piece on the wall when it's all done.

Week 2:

Create at least 3 compositions with your shapes. You do not need to include every shape you made in every composition.

What to think about when creating your compositions:

• What's overlapping what
• Color harmony of the entire piece
• Are the shapes protruding outside the edge of the canvas or are all the shapes within the borders of the canvas
• Vertical or horizontal canvas
• Orientation of your shapes (they don't have to be the same orientation as when you painted them)

Week 1:

Continue creating your individual components.

The three ways of making shapes:

1. Cut shapes out first, then scribble with paint, outline shapes in a painterly way
2. Cut shapes out first, then paint clean lines that create dimension: vary the width of the line and the distance between the lines for depth. Think about tone (light vs dark)
3. Draw / paint your pattern first, then cut the shapes out

Save the positive and negative shapes that you cut.

Think about:

• Color harmony on each individual component
• Contrast
• Shape
  • Organic
  • Curvy
  • Angular
  • Geometric
  • Wide
  • Thin
• Scale
  • Large
  • Small