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IMPASTO PAINT EFFECTS ON FILESILO

IMPASTO PAINT EFFECTS

CREATING IMPASTO WITH OIL PAINT

MAKE CLASSIC OIL PAINT IMPASTO TEXTURES

IMPASTO WITH ACRYLICS

USE CHEAPER ACRYLIC PAINTS TO CREATE AN IMPASTO

piece of art. Impasto is a technique used by painters

to give their paintings extra dimension and a bolder

appearance. Impasto is an Italian word that means

“dough” because of its thickness. When impasto

painting, artists often use a palette knife to spread

paint thickly over a canvas, leaving strokes visible to

02

CREATE TEXTURE

Using your palette knife, scrape the

paint over the canvas. The layer should be thick

and uneven. Make sure you can still see the

strokes when you’re done. There should also be

no thin, soft areas.

02

MIX IT UP

Mix the gel medium and the paint

together, you may need to add more medium or

paint to get the right thickness. Pull the knife off

the mixture; if the peaks stay, it’s thick enough.

03

EXPERIMENT WITH LARGER AREAS

Since the acrylic is still thinner than oil,

don’t use a brush to spread the texture. You can

however create larger areas of texture as the

paint is much cheaper.

03

ALTERNATE TECHNIQUE

You can also use a brush for this

technique, however remember to keep your

strokes visible and your edges hard and thick. Use

a cheap brush for the most textured strokes.

01

GATHER YOUR MATERIALS

You will need for this project: oil paints, a

brush, a palette knife, and a canvas. Make sure your

oils are not thinned with turpentine and are not

separating the pigment from the oil.

01

THICKEN UP

Before you begin, you need to mix a small

amount of your acrylic colour with some acrylic gel

medium, this will thicken it. Note that, the gel

medium makes the drying time for the paint slower.

LEARN HOW TO CREATE TRADITIONAL PAINT EFFECTS

TO USE IN YOUR DIGITAL ARTWORK

O

ne of the main concerns among artists

using Photoshop is that their work won’t

look real enough. One of the most

interesting parts of traditional art after all is

being able to see how it was created, the brush

strokes and texture they create give extra depth to a

enhance the feeling of the piece. These paintings

often use a lot of paint and therefore take a long time

to dry: impasto is usually made with oil paint. In this

tutorial, you’ll learn how to create your own impasto

strokes and apply them to your work to create a

traditional impasto looking piece.