Palette Knife

How do you like to paint?  Do you like to use a brush, palette knife, collage, or even your fingers?  I prefer to use a palette knife.  It creates texture in a way a brush can not.  It even adds a thickness that other materials can not.

The best way to start a palette knife painting in my opinion is with a brush.  This is what is so great about painting is that you don't start with lines like a drawing but blocking in shapes instead.  Just like our eyes do when they are trying to focus on an image.  I like to start by looking at what I am about to paint and see the shapes and start from there.  I build the painting with shapes so it looks like what your eye sees but out of focus.  Next, I like to take my palette knife and add the detail but in an abstract way because that is what I prefer to accomplish in my paintings.

What is your favorite way to paint?  Please share!

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