December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Over the centuries, a wide variety of brush techniques have evolved.
• Stippling. Paint is applied in small, even strokes so that tonal and color gradations can be created in a delicately broken surface.
• Impasto. Paint is applied in heavy, opaque layers.
• Scumbling. Paint is built with an array of open marks pulled over the surface in a loose and uneven way to create a soft, broken, and active layer.
• Knocking down. A line or edge of wet paint is softened by pulling the end of a brush through it in a crisscross fashion.
• Dragging. A brushstroke pulls one color into another to create an active blend.
• Dry brush. Only a small amount of paint is put on the end of the brush, which is then dragged along a surface so that ...