Palette Knife Painting with Acrylics

Palette Knife Art

Pretty Pear

Color Saturated Palette Knife Painting in Acrylics on Wrapped Canvas Board

  Ready to hang.  No frame needed.  

Size:  16 x 20

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Palette Knife painting is fun but very challenging! Palette knife gives a very painterly look to the art work.  I like it!  So in order to get your paint really thick first you mix the color you want and then you add a gel medium.  Below is a picture of the medium I chose and feel I was successful.  The more medium you add the thicker your mark making will be. 

Here is a close up showing the palette knife marks.

I hope you give this technique a try!

Portrait in Oils - Step One

Commissioned Portrait

Oil Paints

16 x 20

Baby MayLan

Portrait in Oils - Step One:

I know that this is somewhat hard to see but it is my Step One painting with oils.  I first drew the portrait with a Conte pencil (red brown shade).  Next I added the blue gray underpainting.  Believe it or not we have some blue in our skin color, other than, of course, people of color who do not have blue undertones.  I 'scumbled' the undercoating, because to me, when the undercoating is just painted in the normal fashion it is just to flat for my liking.  

Next I painted what is referred to as 'lean' layer (vs 'fat' layer).  A 'lean' layer of paint is very thin.  The goal is to just block in some color.  I will most likely add a second 'lean' layer and then finally a 'fat' layer which will be a fully loaded brush of paint!

Once this dries, which will take a few days, I will paint the skin.  Mixing the skin tones will be somewhat challenging because this is a babies skin which is smooth and beautiful and has not been exposed to the outside elements.  Until next week!

Art Tip - What to do . . . . .

What to Do with All that Left Over Paint

I'm the person who mixes large globs of paint!  Are you too?  I do this becasue I'm so afraid of running out of that beautiful color I just mixed!  I'd never get that exact color again!  

Oh, before I go on. . . . the purpose of mixing your colors is that no one else in the whole wide world will be able to use that color in their painting which will make your work original.  Sure, do I occassionally use straight from the tube - yes, and so should you if that's your thing, but I have learned that mixing your colors is so much fun!

Ok, so back to mixing large globs of paint and then not needing to use it all:  

1.  You can store it in jars bought from your local hobby store or even those jars that come with your food delivery, as long as they seal tightly.  Acrylics stored this way should last for a few months.

2.  The new way I learned last week, which I can't wait to share with you, is such a cool idea.  I was chatting with one of my art instructors - Lucinda Cobley, who teaches at The Art League Houston,  about this dilemma of throwing away so much paint.  "No, no, no," she says . . . "paint all that paint left on your palette (even the smallest amounts) onto a piece of art paper.  Later when you do a collage, you will have all these pretty colored painted papers that you can cut or tear into interesting shapes to add to you collages! " 

Brilliant, I say, just simply brilliant! 

My Yellow Daisy Painting

My Yellow Daisy

Color Saturated Acrylics on Wrapped Canvas Board

  Ready to hang.  No frame needed.  

Size:  8 x 10

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After David Hockney....

David Hockney's iArt, British Painter

(drawn on his iPad)

Acrylic

Saturated Painting in Acrylics on Wrapped Canvas Board

  Ready to hang.  No frame needed.  

Size:  16 x 20

For Sale:  $70.00

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(After David Hockney)

Your Artistic Path . . . .Art Chatter

Discover Your Best Self

"When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she asked the Cheshire Cat, "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"  "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.  "I don't much care where . . ." said Alice.  "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.  " . . .  so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as explanation.  "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough." - Author: Louis Carroll.

OH MY GOSH - I don't know about you as an artist, but I fight with this almost on a daily basis!  Yes, I want . . . .  (fill in the blank) and then, I would just head out there on my artistic path blind - taking no heed to what my dreams about art were.  

WHY?  You know, I really have no idea why we do this - fear maybe.  

But last winter I tackled a small piece of this issue.  I wrote an artist statement (with help from a pro of course - took a workshop at my local art league) and I am sort of, kindda maybe, heading in the right direction.  No, I think yes, I am heading in the right direction.  But progress is slow because there is so much 'other' life to be lived.  

Let us take the time to sit down, and think about this . . .  what do I want my artistic path to be?  And then let us each figure out how to get there!  Let's read articles from professionals who are doing what we want to do, read books, find a mentor (an on line mentor works!) and then write!  Yes, write - scribble it (ohhh cute - that's part of my blog name!).  Yes, let us have a dedicated note book (from the dollar store - or a fancy hoop la one), just write . . .  write what?  Write all our ideas, all our art dreams . . . 

Maybe together we can make our dreams come true.  Let's not be an Alice heading just out there . . . . . 

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A BIG SHOUT OUT - to my Louisville, KY customer who purchased a 16 x 20 print of Geraniums in a Pot - watercolor.  Whoo Hoo!  Thank you very much!

Self Portrait using Golden Open Acrylics

Self Portrait

16 x 20 

Not for Sale - however - I will do commission work, 

so send me an email if you are interested and we can talk! 

 theresahoneycheck@gmail.com

This is the first time I followed the Great Master's technique of doing a light to the touch under painting.  I chose burnt umber.  What this did for me was provide me with my midtones in the painting and I did not have to worry about painting in all the laugh lines or midtones areas!  Its a wonderful technique that you (if you are a painter) should try. 

Some viewers have commented on how I painted my frameless glasses - I viewed many famous artists work to see how others painted frameless glasses.  I found a painting by John Singer Sargent (amazing artist by the way) and followed his style of just slightly showing an indication that the frameless glasses are there.  I loved the technique and will use it again.  

Sharing my good news!

Sharing my Good News!

I was contacted today by a curator for RAW - an independent arts organization that hosts events across US and around the globe!  

She found my profile while browsing for Houston artists and thinks I will be an excellent fit for their show - and is wondering if I might be interested in participating for Houston's IMPACT showcase coming up this May!  

Wow! I'm waiting on more information and details. Just call me "blown away!"