Floral painting - Palette knife - Peony - Painting with oils
Painting peony with a palette knife. 3 easy steps to learn oil impasto for beginners. How to use a palette knife.
Ratings 4.35 / 5.00
What You Will Learn!
- How to choose materials and tools for painting with oils and a palette knife.
- How to make a background to be able to apply thick strokes so that it is totally onder control
- How to apply thick impasto strokes with a palette knife with 3 ways
- Making details small secrets of impasto
- How to correct your painting if something went wrong
Description
In this course we will learn materials and supplies for the painting with a palette knife. We will find out how to make a background, hidden layer for the textured and volumetric painting with a palette knife.
Than we will begin to paint our lush peony applying thick strokes with a palette knife. You will learn how to correct your painting if something went wrong, how to apply petals and make the flower lush lively and volumetric.
Eventually we will finish our painting with details.
You will learn control paint and at the same time paint loose with free movements without any stress.
You will be able to paint with a palette knife so that the layers do not mix and do not interfere with creating the shape that you intended.
A palette knife is a tool that assumes some kind of incompleteness, negligence and this is its charm.
But at the same time, your own idea must be fulfilled! You should get a picture with smooth transitions, steep influxes, dynamic, playful and cool, and not a mess of paint.
After completing my master class, you will create your own cool lush peony, learn how not to drown in oil paint, but emerge as a winner and a creator, and just have a relaxed and creative time.
We re going to need:
Oil paints:
I used Van Gogh, and Cobra, you can also choose another firm but the colors usually all firms use the same. For a palette knife you don’t need any solvents and thinners.
Colors:
Titanium white
Ultramarine
Cadmium Yellow/ Azo yellow
Burnt Umber
Olive green/Viridian green
Carmine
Palette I usually use this tear-off palette. It’s very useful.
Palette knife.
It has to be a soft one. You can check it if you try it on a canvas, it has to bend. If the canvas bends, it is a hard palette knife, and doesn't match you.
Curved form is universal and very useful. Look for this one.
Small canvas, oil paper or panel 8 x 8 inches, 20 x 20 cm
You can request a feedback if you would like. I can answer your questions here in comments under the video. I will be pleased if you share your results!
Let's paint!
Who Should Attend!
- beginner oil painting artist
- artists who curious about impasto technique
