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For all good purposes of accuracy I must admit artists have a problem with the identiy of pallete and painting kives and I’m guilty of making the same mistake. We call painting knifes, pallette knives. A pallette knife is for mixing paint.
A painting knife is shaped a bit differently and is used for painting.
Here is a picture of the two with an accurate description:
http://painting.about.com/od/paintin...ting_knife.htm
In this next video I had to smile as the gentleman called a painting knife a pallette knife. Oh well, I’ve done the same too many times.
All that aside, the real purpose of this lesson is to introduce impasto. Once you get into playing with impasto you will never stop. He uses a product you can purchase at the hobby store called
acrylic modeling paste. I have used masonite to paint spackling compound on that. Actually, I
like this better because the dark of the masonite makes it easier to see your texture material. After the impasto is coated with acrylic I make sure to put a heavy sealer on it. My daugher has a piece that belonged to her grandmother I did for her granny 50 years ago and it is still intact and in perfect condition.
Pictures say more than words and here’s a great video. The gentleman here works in a quick loose style. I like to carefully draw my subject so I don’t have to wander around on the canvas like he does. But he has the strength and the dynamic energy to put that point across and that’s
what it’s all about. To each his own.
http://www.jerrysartarama.com/art-le...o-Impasto.html
You can google “paintings using impasto” for great numbers of examples. I loved to do sunflowers and roosters. The texture gives a rough country look to a painting.
A painting knife is shaped a bit differently and is used for painting.
Here is a picture of the two with an accurate description:
http://painting.about.com/od/paintin...ting_knife.htm
In this next video I had to smile as the gentleman called a painting knife a pallette knife. Oh well, I’ve done the same too many times.
All that aside, the real purpose of this lesson is to introduce impasto. Once you get into playing with impasto you will never stop. He uses a product you can purchase at the hobby store called
acrylic modeling paste. I have used masonite to paint spackling compound on that. Actually, I
like this better because the dark of the masonite makes it easier to see your texture material. After the impasto is coated with acrylic I make sure to put a heavy sealer on it. My daugher has a piece that belonged to her grandmother I did for her granny 50 years ago and it is still intact and in perfect condition.
Pictures say more than words and here’s a great video. The gentleman here works in a quick loose style. I like to carefully draw my subject so I don’t have to wander around on the canvas like he does. But he has the strength and the dynamic energy to put that point across and that’s
what it’s all about. To each his own.
http://www.jerrysartarama.com/art-le...o-Impasto.html
You can google “paintings using impasto” for great numbers of examples. I loved to do sunflowers and roosters. The texture gives a rough country look to a painting.