Palette knife technique for the beginner oil artist

What you will learn

Use a palette knife

Paint with oil paint

Learn how to correct the painting

Try to create an own painting

Description

Poppy field with bright red poppies is a very nice theme for painting. Try to paint it along with me

In this tutorial I will show and tell about a palette knife technique on the example of this landscape. The palette knife is a very modern tool which gets more and more popular.

It can not be washed, but only wiped with a napkin. You don’t have to use thinners, because the consistency of the tube paint is just what we need for painting with a palette knife.

The paintings turn out with an interesting texture of the thick oil paint.


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In this landscape, I want to show how to create a poppy field using a palette knife. The purpose of the lesson is to learn how to create a background, adjust volumetric strokes, manage thin lines.

I would like you to not just repeat this landscape, but try to create something of your own based on this lesson, using a photo from the Internet or using these examples. The main task is to simplify the color planes from the photo’s to make the composition solid.

You will need : a palette knife, stretched canvas 12 x 16 in ( 30 x 40 cm) oil paint, tear -off palettes, napkin.

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Content

Introduction

Introduction
If you are a beginner I suggest you to attend first my another tutorial
Materials and tools
Charcoal sketch
Mixing colors on a palette
Background
Foreground
Correction of the objects if something went wrong
Applying thin lines
Finishing the painting