Painting Texture
Creating and using texture in your paintings.
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What Does AI Think About Texture in Paintings?!
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 the development in AI, I would ask Google’s Bard to write me an article about using texture in oil paintings and this is what they came up with!
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Using Masking Tape for Textured Patterns
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 using masking tape, maybe just to emphasise a feature in the painting. I have also used this method just to add some extra shapes to an abstract painting. So I have created a quick video to show how I use this technique – in this case I am creating a small painting with a raised,…
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10 Things You Can Add to Texture
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 on its own, you can also add things to the texture to make different patterns on the canvas or board and I thought I would share some of my ideas here. So here are 10 things that you can add to your texture mix to give you some different effects: 1.String – I generally use…
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Step by Step Textured Painting
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Textured Abstract Painting
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 that keen on!). I did this textured abstract painting a couple of years ago and it sold pretty quickly after I got a lot of good feedback from friends and family. It was quite a large textured painting on a box canvas: I think if you click on it you should be able to get…
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Tissue Paper for 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 put the tissue on top of the wet paint or add the tissue to the paint and apply it to the canvas – you could also add a little water if it is a bit thick with the tissue in. Just leave it to dry (ideally overnight) and you have a good base to paint…
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Great Texture Additive!
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 how they create their texture and their paintings. I definitely learnt things from this guy. One tip he had was to use sawdust to add texture to his paintings. You can use this by adding it to gesso or to PVA or add it tot he texture mix that I have detailed in this website.…
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Decorator’s Caulk for Paintings
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. Once it is dry you can paint it (I think I pretty much used only acrylic paint at that time but I expect if you applied a coat of acrylic and then used oil on top it would work perfectly well too) and with the raised surface it is easy to apply something like gold…
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Using Tile Adhesive for 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 and ready mixed plaster type compounds but not the tile adhesive as I think it might be a bit ‘gooey’!
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Using Tissue in Paintings
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.
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Really Thick Painting 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 base but the best one I have found is stucco. Whether you can find stucco in your part of the world is a big question. I have struggled to find it, particularly in the UK, and have had to bring it with me when travelling but I am sure there must be better ways of…
