Acrylic LANDSCAPE 'Bush Walk' with a Palette Knife. Level 2

Acrylic LANDSCAPE 'Bush Walk' with a Palette Knife. Level 2

The Palette Knife is a multipurpose painting tool. Use it to mix and apply paint to your canvas and it will give you a totally new and exciting painting experience!

With the Palette Knife:

• Paint with more spontaneity without getting tight and detailed

• Mix clean vibrant colours

• Mix colours on your palette with more volume of paint

• Spread the paint with broad strokes

• Use the edge of the knife to paint lines and the tip to dab spots of paint

• Lay one colour over another, wet in wet

• Feel inspired to explore and develop your skills further with this bold and direct technique of painting

Palette Layout and Colour Mixing:

Having your colours organized on your palette can help to prevent you from randomly mixing colours all over the palette. I will show you a simple method of laying out your primary colours that you can use on a consistent basis to avoid confusion and mixing muddy colours!

I have placed a strong emphasis on Colour Mixing. I feel that having a good understanding of how to mix colours effectively will provide you with a solid foundation for painting your landscape. At the beginning of the course I will take you through a simple colour mixing exercise that will prepare and introduce you to a range of colours that you will be mixing for the featured 'Bush Walk' landscape.

Simplifying the Composition:

Before you commence the featured painting I will show you the original photo reference image that this landscape is based on. I will demonstrate how to simplify some of the elements in the picture to make the composition more interesting!

Follow my step by step demonstrations of the Colour Mixing Chart and 'Bush Walk' landscape and you will see plenty of close ups of the colour mixing from your point of view as if you were mixing the colours.

For this 'Bush Walk' landscape you will use a fan brush, palette knife and 4 Acrylic Colours.  NOTE: The same principles and techniques also apply to Oils and can be used in exactly the same way!

• Cobalt Blue

• Ultramarine Blue,

• Permanent Crimson

• Yellow

• White

Video 3 covers a full list of materials required for this course!

This Impressionist style approach with the palette knife can help to prevent you from falling into the trap of painting detail so that your painting doesn’t look tight and controlled. The palette knife can be great fun and allow you to paint broadly with expressive freedom.

So ENROLL NOW for a Palette Knife experience!

Who this course is for?

Beginners and Intermediates who want to:

• Paint with the Palette Knife to bring a whole new approach to their paintings

• Paint with a limited colour palette

• Develop their skills in colour mixing

• Use the palette knife to mix clean vibrant colours

• Paint in a broad Impressionist style without getting caught up in detail

What bonuses are included in this course?

• Photo reference of my Colour Mixing chart

• Photo reference of the Original Landscape that the featured 'Bush Walk' painting is based on

• Photo reference of my Landscape painting demonstration

Paint with more spontaneity and build your confidence as you paint this 'Bush Walk' landscape full of sunlight and depth

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What you will learn

• How to hold and maneuver your palette knife to mix paint so that it becomes second nature to you
• Laying out the colours on your palette in a consistent manner
• Colour mixing exercise to introduce you to the colours you will use in the 'Bush Walk' landscape

Rating: 4.45

Level: All Levels

Duration: 2 hours

Instructor: Gerald Ashcroft