Palette Knife Painting: Deep Impasto by Lisa Elley

Author:Lisa Elley [Lisa Elley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Walter Foster
Published: 2023-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

Step 6: Adding the plant pots & flowers

Drag down 1 teaspoon each of cadmium yellow, cadmium red, and alizarin crimson.

Load your knife with a small portion of yellow on the tip, and place it gently on the canvas just above the windowsill. Press down in a curved shape and draw the knife up. Next, mix a little yellow with just a dab of cadmium red to make orange and repeat the first step, gently laying a strip of orange paint right next to the yellow. Lastly, mix a small amount of cadmium red with alizarin crimson and lay in another small strip right next to the orange to complete the shape of the plant pot.

Lastly, to tidy up the form of the pot, with the tip of my knife I smooth out the top edge into a gentle curve.

Go ahead and repeat these steps and create another plant pot on the right side of the windowsill. Make sure it’s not exactly the same size, so make it a little smaller or larger. I made my one on the right slightly taller.

Repeat this all again on the bottom right, with a larger plant pot sitting on the ground. On this one, I also added a thin line of Payne’s gray on the top, and on the right side by loading a small sliver on the edge of the knife and gently pulling it down.

The next step with our plant pots is to mix some yellow and green together. Drag down 1 tablespoon of each and mix thoroughly.

I’m switching to my smaller knife in order to get the details here.

Load your knife with about 1 teaspoon on the tip and dot in the plant foliage starting at the base of the pot and drawing it upward.

Repeat this a few times on both plant pots, and again on the bottom pot on the ground, until you have very thick foliage on all three plants. I mixed in a little extra yellow to lighten up the tips of the plants as well, which creates a more organic look. If you’re using a lazy Susan, it’s often easier to swivel the canvas upside down to complete the plant foliage.

Next, I’m using my long skinny palette knife to give the plants more structure and movement upward. I gently pull up the paint, starting from the base and making stems and grasslike strands. It’s tempting to overdo this, but make sure you stop after you’ve done a few. If you don’t have this knife, don’t worry! You can do all these details with your standard knife twisted sideways so that you are using the skinny side of the blade. It’s just a little easier to do it with the sharper knife. (Not to mention fun!)

Finally, the flowers! This part is the most fun, adding such pizazz to the piece.

Using your little knife and cadmium red straight out of the tube, scoop up little dots and gently place them on your plant foliage, pulling the knife up quickly. Make sure not to squish them into the green paint underneath.

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