Lots of Edgy Texture - Palette Knife Paintings
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Palette knife painting is cool in many ways:
PANTRY & PRODUCE SERIES
POSITIVES
No messy brushes
Hard expressive edges
Fabulous scumbled edges, that are not smooth, but delicious nonetheless
Thick textural paint
Acrylics, Oils.....are perfect mediums for palette knife painting
NEGATIVES - kinda sorta
Harder to get details, but one does this with paint on the very tippy tip of
knife
Better to have a variety of shapes of knifes (not really a negative....)
Gouache and watercolor CAN be knifed, but it is more unique. Must practice
your technique for this.
So what about SUBJECT or COMPOSITION?
Here's what I suggested my artists do as soon as they popped into our Zoom
class:
Simply grab some item out of their pantry and a piece of produce on their
counter. That's it!
Limit the paint palette to maybe 3 colors, or less than an expansive
palette....so we could concentrate ONLY on our technique.
- Simple subject - the everyday ordinary stuff often make delightful paintings!
- Simple palette
- Now let's figure out how to use and paint with a palette knife, or knives.
Introducing the Pantry and Palette Series (mind you, I had no idea there would
be a series, much less called this.....I just PAINT, and then the rest
evolves. Reminds me of Nike phrase - JUST DO IT!)
PANTRY & PRODUCE SERIES
palette knife paintings
12 x 9 inches
on paper
acrylic, charcoal, some mixed media
Hope you enjoy!
Available in my SHOP...under Everyday Stuff.