Different ways of applying paint

During the course of this module I’ve been already experimenting with different ways of applying paint, as in Part 4 Creating a mood and atmosphere, where I used modelling paste – impasto and matt medium, applied with brush, natural sponge and sticks, which I found to be interesting way of creating texture and three-dimensional marks

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In Part 4, working from photographs, I

experimented by applying ink and acrylic with rollers, credit cards etc

In Part 4, Hard and soft landscapes, I experimented with Van Gogh’s long curved and broken brush strokes and found the technique useful to achieve the texture of tree bark. I think this was a fair attempt though my paint was too thin and my colour pallet more muted

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Please see Part 4 for details of all these.

I also did an exercise with impasto applied with a palette knife to create texture based on a picture I took a while ago which I thought that it will be suitable for the exercise.

Although it was fun experimenting with different ways of applying paint, the traditional and soft texture methods remain my favourite.