![]() ![]() Adding in thicker and shorter rheology mediums like Molding Pastes or Heavy and Extra Heavy Gels can allow sharper and clearer marks. And while our Heavy Body Acrylics hold onto brush and knife marks very well, they have a mixture of short and long rheologies and so the resulting textures can sometimes have softer looking marks. You can have paint that is both thick and also settles or levels out to some extent, (some longer rheology) creating softer and more rounded surface marks…and you can have paint that holds onto every mark in sharp detail, creating clearly defined texture short rheology). It breaks into segments or drips rather than flows continuously like honey or molasses. Interestingly enough, water is also short. Food analogies work well here: Honey is long and butter is short. Viscosity refers to how thick the paint is and rheology is the way the paint flows or levels. Surface texture with paint is a result of a combination of how one applies and manipulates paint on a surface combined with the precise viscosity and rheology of the paint. Copyright: Mark Raush.ĭirect application of thick paint is probably the most common method of creating highly textured paint surfaces. Detail of painting showing direct use of Heavy Body Acrylic and Fluid Acrylic blended with Heavy Gels brush applied to canvas to create textured paint surface. ![]() Light Molding Paste colored with small amounts of Fluid Acrylic applied with palette knife. Direct application and manipulation of higher viscosity paints and paint/medium mixtures. ![]() There are three main ways that high texture and relief can be accomplished that we will discuss in this article:ġ. Direct application and manipulation of higher viscosity paints and paint/medium mixtures.Ģ. Layered build-up of paints over textured surfaces.ģ. Collage work with fabrics, paper, acrylic skins, cast acrylic and experimental collage elements.ġ. In this article we will explore a variety of ways to create highly textured surfaces using acrylic paints, mediums and collage. The history of painting shows us a large range of ways paint can be applied and manipulated to create many different kinds of textural surfaces. Due to their excellent stability and flexibility over time, acrylic paints and mediums have shown themselves to be the best at enabling this kind of free range exploration. Inspiration can happen most often in the action and immediacy of using the materials. Try applying paint in different ways to the texture and in many layers.As painters, we love the myriad ways we can apply paint and move it around on a surface. One thing I recommend that you do before creating a painting with heavy texture is to create a trial piece on a small canvas, perhaps marked out into squares with different types of texture in each – perhaps some scraped marks, some added swirls, some deliberate cracks etc, then you can test out applying different thicknesses of paint. When applying paint to texture, the paint has a different translucence than it does purely on the canvas and you can get more vibrant colour effects if all the texture is initially covered with paint. Let this initial coat dry before adding any further paint layers on. Use about 1 part paint to 1 part water and make sure that you cover the whole canvas and get into all the cracks in the texture. To start off with I always apply a watered down coat of a neutral colour to the textured base. I can’t stress too much how much better the painting looks when you apply many layers of paint. ![]() Pick any household implements to use to make marks in the texture, like forks, spoons, sticks etc.If you stick masking tape to the canvas, you can use a craft knife to cut out patterns and this should not cut into the canvas. The more patterns and marks you make in the texture, the wider the variety of paint effects you can use to apply the paint on the texture. In some cases it might be necessary to leave the texture to dry for longer than 12 hours but this is really only if you have applied it extremely thickly. Stencils can also work well to give a raised effect of a particular shape. You can also just apply it to parts of the canvas or use masking tape to mask off areas for different patterns. If you have created the texture using my texture recipe then you can apply this to the canvas really thickly and it will not reduce or shrink back too much. Once you have made your texture and have applied it to the canvas, it is advisable to leave the texture to dry overnight so that all of the thickest parts of the texture have dried out. ![]()
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