Textured Paintings
Examples of paintings that have been created with texture.
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Paint it Yourself – Red Abstract
I thought I would share some step by step instructions on one of my much older paintings that uses a different type of texture. It is quite a basic one and you have my permission to copy it if you want to! This is a relatively easy abstract to do and you can choose whichever colours you wish to use in your painting – I have chosen a red background with gold highlights. You could do it in blues and greens with silver or I have also done similar versions using browns and gold. The first thing to do is to apply the ‘texture’ that you are going to use…
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Step by Step Textured Painting
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Step by Step Textured Painting
So following on from my last post about using resin in my paintings I realised that I had actually meant to document the process of creating the painting shown in that article. So I put together all of the images I took during the creation process and have made them into a step by step video of how I did it which I thought might be of interest to some. For future paintings I have just got myself a new video camera so hopefully I will be able to do some better videos (although if my first attempt is anything to go by this may not actually work out so…
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Paint it Yourself – Red Abstract
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Google Earth and Resin!
So I wasn’t sure if I had posted about making paintings based on Google Earth images before but I don’t think I have so I will do so here! Anyway, I had the idea a few years ago when I was in Spain and I was looking for somewhere to visit by using Google Earth to see where I could spot some kind of lake nearby. It turned out that the images that I could see were ones that I thought would make really great abstract paintings by just using them as inspiration. As the area I was looking at had lots of undulations and various buildings and things that…
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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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Creating a Textured Abstract Painting
Ok so I have finished the video of the creation of a new painting for my lounge. Obviously I couldn’t video every minute of creating the painting as the video would have been too long! Often I spent time just painting over and over to get the right effect. For me the key here is layers of paint, the more layers the better, until you feel like it is finished. The other key point is not to add any colour neat (apart from white), always try and partially mix it with another colour. This is the finished result, it is similar in style to the header image on this website:…
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Using a Small Amount of Texture
So sometimes less is more but adding a small amount of texture to your paintings can really enhance the final look. For this painting I used a small amount of texture in the white splash of waves – some of it was quite thick – to give the enhanced effect of the waves crashing. It turned out really well and I am now working on a smaller version.
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Textured Squares Painting
[ad name=”Ad – Small Banner”] Here is an example of a textured squares painting. This painting has a base of home made texture which is made up of stucco and PVA which was left to dry overnight before paintings over. Various different marks were carved into the texture whilst it was still wet.
