WorksbyWill WorksbyWill- Will Schmahl

Abstract mixed-media paintings are created through layered applications of color, texture, staining, and dimensional surface work. Acrylics and inks provide saturated color, washes, pours, drips, and gestural marks, while dyes create softer staining effects that sink into the surface and produce atmospheric transitions.

Waxes add depth, translucency, sheen, and subtle veiling, while caulks introduce raised lines, ridges, seams, sculptural texture, and physical movement across the composition. These paintings are built through an experimental process where fluid color and tactile materials work together to create abstract pieces with organic movement, rich texture, and strong material presence.

This collection is all the sold, donated or gifted pieces of work that have found homes. 

Pour paintings are created through fluid movement, layered color, and expressive surface work. Acrylic inks and paints are poured, tilted, dripped, or swiped across the surface, allowing the materials to move naturally and form organic patterns, cells, veils, streaks, marbling, and atmospheric color transitions.

Each piece balances control and spontaneity. The final result depends on pigment density, paint consistency, drying time, surface movement, and the tools used to guide or disrupt the flow. These works can feel soft and ethereal, bold and chaotic, or energetic and atmospheric, with each painting carrying its own sense of motion, depth, and unpredictability.

Resin paintings are created through a slow, layered process of pours, color work, curing, and surface building. Resin and epoxy are applied in stages to create depth, clarity, and a glasslike finish, while inks, acrylics, and dyes introduce saturated color, organic movement, veining, staining, and translucent shifts beneath the surface.

Each piece requires hours of active work, with additional waiting time between layers that can take days as the resin cures. This process allows each layer to settle, harden, and reveal new depth before the next pour or detail is added. The result is a dimensional abstract collection with luminous color, polished texture, and a sense of movement suspended within the surface.