Painting Texture
What Does AI Think About Texture in Paintings?!
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- July 10, 2023
- Painting Texture
I haven’t written on here for a while as I haven’t really used a lot of texture in my paintings in the last few years. Who knows, I might go back to it, but at the moment I am using layers of paint to create my abstract expressionist artworks. So I thought in light of ...
Read MoreUsing Masking Tape for Textured Patterns
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- August 11, 2016
- Applying Texture, Painting Texture, Video, how to
Masking tape is a really useful tool in painting I find, whether you just create patterns and paint over it, mask off edges of the painting to frame it or maybe use texture. In the past I have created a few paintings that have had a specific part of the painting that has raised texture ...
Read More10 Things You Can Add to Texture
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- June 23, 2016
- Painting, Painting Texture, Textured Paintings
This month I have had my studio open as part of the local open studios event and during that time I have been doing some demonstrations on some textured canvases. As part of these demonstrations I have been including some additional elements to the texture to demonstrate different techniques. So as well as just using texture ...
Read MoreTextured Abstract Painting
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- August 5, 2015
- Acrylic Painting, Painting Texture, Textured Paintings
OK so I was looking for a picture of a certain painting today and I came across another photograph of an old painting I did a couple of years ago that was one of my favourites, so I thought I would share it (especially after the last post was about one that I wasn’t really ...
Read MoreTissue Paper for Texture
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- May 10, 2014
- Acrylic Painting, Applying Texture, Painting Texture
If you want a quick and easy way to add texture to your paintings then you can use tissue (the type you blow your nose on!) or tissue paper. ideally you would use PVA to apply the tissue to the canvas but if you don’t have any then you can just use acrylic paint. Either ...
Read MoreGreat Texture Additive!
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- February 2, 2014
- Painting Texture, Texture Ingredients, gesso, sawdust
So I had some lessons a number of year ago from an abstract artist who also used a lot of texture in his paintings. I was already working as an abstract artist at that point in time but I always think that you can learn plenty of new tips and tricks from other artists on ...
Read MoreDecorator’s Caulk for Paintings
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- January 2, 2014
- Painting Texture, Texture Ingredients
A few years ago I picked up some tubes of squeezable decorators caulk to try out on creating some shapes and lines on some paintings. They turned out quite well and it is really easy to use. It is quite a flexible substance so it works well on canvas and it is easy to apply. ...
Read MoreUsing Tile Adhesive for Texture
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- May 9, 2012
- Buying Painting Supplies, Painting Texture
So someone recently asked me if you could use tile adhesive in a texture mix instead of the stucco that I usually use. Well I had to say that I did not know if tile adhesive would work as a painting base as I had never tried it. I had tried plenty of powder based ...
Read MoreUsing Tissue in Paintings
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- March 15, 2012
- Applying Texture, Painting Texture, Painting Tips, texture, tissue
Another item that I use to make texture in paintings is just plain tissue. I’m talking about the tissues you use to blow your nose on but you can use any other type of tissue really.
Read MoreReally Thick Painting Texture
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- October 28, 2011
- Painting Texture, stucco, thick texture
Check out the section on this website about how to create really thick painting texture – you can create great affects by using a kind of plaster base and mixing it with a plastic adhesive such as PVA, to give it some elasticity. There are a few options that you can use for the plaster ...
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