Abstract Painting: breaking away from traditional representation of physical objects.  It explores the relationships of forms and colors, loosely representing the objects being expressed. 

Nonobjective Painting:  no subject matter present beyond the colors, patterns, textures, and shapes used and expressed for their own sake.

(**PLEASE NOTE:  People often get these terms mixed up or refer to Nonobjective Paintings as Abstract Paintings...but now you know the difference!)

 Intuitive Painting: a process where you allow a painting to "speak" to you as you build it layer by layer.
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ASSIGNMENT:
After our discussion of Abstract, Nonobjective, and Intuitive painting processes, you will be creating abstract and nonobjective paintings in an intuitive process, (using the long brushes attached to yardsticks for part of the painting process, to help you stay loose.)

Assign yourself 4 or 5 words - one for each painting.
You will work in layers and have several paintings going at a time. (I'll demonstrate the process in class.)
TECHNIQUES IN ACTION:
Reflection Questions: 
1. What Elements and Principles of Design do you have to pay attention to in creating a successful abstract or nonobjective painting?
2. Critique your paintings.  Which one do you like best?  Which had the best composition?
What did you learn from this experimental art process?