Textured Art

A fresh new guide to palette knife painting for today's painting enthusiasts, featuring step-by-step tutorials for colour mixing, mark making, and a variety of painting techniques to create your own unique abstract, landscape, and floral paintings..

A fresh new guide to contemporary palette knife painting for beginner and experienced artists, featuring step-by-step tutorials on colour mixing, mark making, and a variety of painting techniques to create your own unique abstract, landscape, and floral paintings.*Publisher's note: regrettably there were some production problems with the first printing of this title. We have recalled the affected books and new stock is now available.*Author and artist, Melissa McKinnon, has designed this book to take both the beginner and experienced artist on a journey into impasto painting. She begins with an overview of the essential tools and materials you'll need to get started. Included are detailed instructions to make your own stay-wet palette and how to combine thickening mediums with acrylic paint to achieve the ideal consistency.There are simple practice exercises to get you comfortable using a palette knife, mixing colours and blending with a brush. Melissa explains how to sculpt and control the paint to create a variety of stunning textural effects. She demonstrates several mark making techniques that you can use alone or in combination to create your own expressive textured paintings, as well as an introduction to colour theory and tips on composition.Once you feel confident with the tools and paint, you'll learn how to create twelve different textured landscape, floral, and abstract paintings with step-by-step instructions. This series of paintings was designed to help you put all of the techniques and colour theory you've learned into beautiful paintings of your own.Melissa generously shares her knowledge and expert tips gained from years of experience developing her unique approach to palette knife painting. She values experimentation and is always evolving her technique. The last two projects explore alternative painting methods inviting you to take your paintings one step further by incorporating new materials and experimental techniques.Using the instructions in this book you will become equipped to take your practise further and continue to develop the skills you need to improve your artwork. This book will become a trusted resource in your studio, one that you can refer back to again and again as you grow and evolve as an artist.When speaking about the book Melissa says: "Painting with a palette knife can be intimidating even for experienced artists. My goal is to simplify the process and show you how easy and enjoyable this technique really is. Textured Art is is a deep dive into my unique painting process that I've developed over a lifetime of art making. Designed for both beginner and experienced artists, I'll teach you step-by-step everything you need to know to create colourful textured paintings of your own. I'm confident this book will become a trusted resource in your studio, one that you can refer back to again and again as you grow and evolve as an artist.".

Auteur
Melissa McKinnon is a professional artist, teacher, and author living in Calgary, Canada. Working primarily with acrylic paint and palette knife, her unique painting style uses expressive colour and layers of thick impasto texture to create stunning paintings of oceans, florals, mountains and trees in both representational and abstract styles. Her original paintings and prints can be found online and in private and corporate collections worldwide.

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For as long as I can remember, 'painter' has been part of my identity. As a child, art was a way for me to make sense of the world. It allowed me to create beauty in the dark, nd quiet in the chaos, and develop a sense of optimism that has carried me to where I am today. My earliest experiences with art gifted me the ability to express myself, and I loved the feeling of freedom that expression gave me so much that I made it my profession. Even now, in a messy world constantly in crisis, I stand before my canvas with the same unrelenting optimism that pulled me out of the deepest, darkest parts of my life with an artist's sense of duty to show others that all of life becomes art when you choose to see the beauty in it. I love to travel. Everywhere I go, I gather inspiration and nd something to fall in love with. Whether it's a sunset, a breathtaking vista, or a dense forest, those who see my paintings often see themselves in the same scene, instantly transported to a time in their life or a memory that brings them happiness. When you look at my artwork, you'll see the visual evolution of the many journeys I've taken, the places I've been, and the joy in my soul - all expressed through paint. Stand back and take in all the trees, mountains, and oceans, or step forward and put your nose to the canvas to immerse yourself in the dozens of individual strokes that support each other in telling a larger story. My painting style is unique, using abstraction, expressive color, and texture to draw viewers into nature's stunning moments and their own intimate memories. The gentle rustling of a wooded breeze, the sun-drenched sway of leaves and petals, the sensual light in a sunset fading fast... my paintings feel at once like real destinations and imagined dreamscapes. I like to think that my paintings give people the same sacred permission to dream in color that art gave me so many years ago in pieces that serve as reminders, on walls and in homes, in workspaces and in schools, that beauty is ours for the taking if we're brave enough to train our eye to it. As you explore the techniques and paintings in this book, practice your own observation. What catches your breath as much as it catches your eye? What causes you to pause, lean in closer, or zoom in a little further? Let yourself be drawn to the beauty you take in - and when you're ready to - make it yours.