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Creating a Palette Knife Background

Create this background for a simple landscape painting.

Playing in the paint with palette knives

Palette Knife Background

Last week I introduced palette knives and a few things you can do with them.  Today you’ll learn how to get a background on using a palette knife for a simple landscape.

Using a palette knife really opens up your opportunity to play in the paint.  They are a completely different animal than brushes and your results will also be completely different.

You will need to literally play in the paint using a support you don’t care about, but I recommend you use water color paper taped to a board as you learn how to use your knives and what they can do.  Then you can move on to a support of canvas or a canvas panel.

In this video I’m painting on a 7″ x 5″ canvas panel.  Colors I use are:

  • Titanium white
  • Hansa yellow
  • Hookers green
  • Ultramarine blue
  • Dioxazine purple
  • Turquoise deep

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Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Let’s paint together real soon.