Textured Art: Palette knife and impasto painting techniques in acrylic

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A fresh new guide to contemporary palette knife painting for beginner and experienced artists, featuring step-by-step tutorials on colour mixing, mark making, and a variety of painting techniques to create your own unique abstract, landscape, and floral paintings.

Publisher’s note: regrettably there were some production problems with the first printing of this title. We have recalled the affected books and new stock is now available.

Author and artist, Melissa McKinnon, has designed this book to take both the beginner and experienced artist on a journey into impasto painting. She begins with an overview of the essential tools and materials you’ll need to get started. Included are detailed instructions to make your own stay-wet palette and how to combine thickening mediums with acrylic paint to achieve the ideal consistency.

There are simple practice exercises to get you comfortable using a palette knife, mixing colours and blending with a brush. Melissa explains how to sculpt and control the paint to create a variety of stunning textural effects. She demonstrates several mark making techniques that you can use alone or in combination to create your own expressive textured paintings, as well as an introduction to colour theory and tips on composition.

Once you feel confident with the tools and paint, you’ll learn how to create twelve different textured landscape, floral, and abstract paintings with step-by-step instructions. This series of paintings was designed to help you put all of the techniques and colour theory you’ve learned into beautiful paintings of your own.

Melissa generously shares her knowledge and expert tips gained from years of experience developing her unique approach to palette knife painting. She values experimentation and is always evolving her technique. The last two projects explore alternative painting methods inviting you to take your paintings one step further by incorporating new materials and experimental techniques.

Using the instructions in this book you will become equipped to take your practise further and continue to develop the skills you need to improve your artwork. This book will become a trusted resource in your studio, one that you can refer back to again and again as you grow and evolve as an artist.

When speaking about the book Melissa says: “Painting with a palette knife can be intimidating even for experienced artists. My goal is to simplify the process and show you how easy and enjoyable this technique really is. Textured Art is is a deep dive into my unique painting process that I’ve developed over a lifetime of art making. Designed for both beginner and experienced artists, I’ll teach you step-by-step everything you need to know to create colourful textured paintings of your own. I’m confident this book will become a trusted resource in your studio, one that you can refer back to again and again as you grow and evolve as an artist.”.

From the Publisher

A practical guide to impasto painting for beginners and beyond. Learn about paints and mediums, tools and materials and all the necessary techniques to start creating your own textured art.

Palettes and Paint

Includes advice about palettes and how to store paints to keep them fresh and get the best results for your artwork.

Tools and Materials

Author Melissa McKinnon explains how to manage thicker paints using different types of brushes and palette knives.

Managing Mediums

Learn how to mix colours and how to add mediums and thickeners to paint to get different textures and thicknesses of paint.

Melissa explains the key techniques for working with thick paint including impression brush work; impasto; wet-on-wet, drawing in paint and scumbling.

Impression Brush Work

Use thick paint and a brush to create an impression style painting by applying the paint using broken strokes rather than blending.

Textured Backgrounds

Discover how to create a textured background to paint on by adding mediums such as moulding and crackle paste.

Painting projects

Follow author, Melissa McKinnon’s, step-by-step tutorials for 12 finished compositions for textured art

Publisher ‏ : ‎ David & Charles (September 13, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1446309371
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1446309377
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.75 x 11 inches