Tag: palette knife

Two Oils, Monday Demonstrations

Here is my mornings efforts at correcting and polishing up my last couple of demonstrations for my Monday morning plein air class. In both of these paintings I worked at pushing the backgrounds back using a more violet greys, and bringing the foregrounds forward with texture using a palette knife and chip brush, applying intense reds yellows and greens. The oils are coming along but it will be a year or so before I really feel I have turned the corner. I plan to spend the first two months of 2015 outdoors painting trying to get the winter greys down. I think that is the only way. Thanks for putting up with my oils I know they will get better.

Tags: chip brush | demonstration | palette knife | plein-air | texture

Posted: December 4, 2014 by Steve

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“Country Lane”

This painting took me a little more time than I expected but it was worth the effort although it is still not a very good painting. I scraped a lot of the darks back to tinted canvas using a palette knife and it really helps with the color harmony and a unity of surface inside the transparent darks. I like the dark areas, and some of the grass in the foreground and in both of these areas I really worked at modifying the surface by lightly scraping the color back and then reapplying more color on top. I saw this technique demonstrated by a fabulous oil painter Roger Dale Brown and it has caused a big change in how I approach the initial phases of my oils.

Tags: country | palette knife | trees

Posted: September 20, 2013 by Steve

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