Creating Beautiful Paintings with a Palette Knife for Technical Ease and Joy
What are Palette Knife Paintings?
These are paintings created using a palette knife. These sorts of paintings are created with ease due to not needing to wash brushes. If you have to use a lot of brushes, especially with oil paintings, it can be difficult to maintain the quality of the brush. The advantage of palette knife paintings is that they take away the need to use brushes.
They can be created quite easily with some basic knowledge of how to paint. Some suggested instructions for creating palette knife paintings are as follows:
Tools
Art Paper, Canvas Boards or Canvas
Palette knives
Painting supplies
Best palette knives for artists
Types of Palette Knives
Artist tools
Method
- Take acrylic paper, canvas board or canvas.
- Paint the background using white, black or burnt Sienna.
- Next, chalk out the composition.
- Start from the top and work your way to the bottom.
- Some people like a drawing grid.
- Add a base layer of paint using the side of the pallet knife.
- This will result in the basic shapes of the painting composition
- Then, add the details to the picture, thinking three dimensionally.
- It may aid you if you think of the painting as a sculpture.
- Consider light, depth, and mid-tones in order to complete the painting.