Painting Techniques

A la prima• Is using neither water nor

mediums as diluents, the saturated paints can be manipulated on the surface.

• Technique remains workable on the surface for several minutes, allowing for wet in wet blending and textural manipulation.

• Splatter, pull or drip

Extrusion

• Is drawing lines with acrylic paint.

• Is ideal for incorporating linear details and text into a painting.

• Is great for creating relief textures.

Blending• Can be done with acrylic on

the palette, or directly on the support using a variety of methods.

• Is most effective when completed rapidly

• broken colour can be achieved by applying raw colour progressively varying tones directly onto the surface produces an optical colour blend with a distinctive impasto texture

ImpastoThe word "impasto" is Italian in origin; in that language it means "dough" or "mixture"; the verb "impastare" translates variously as "to knead", or "to paste".

In English, the borrowed Italian word impasto most commonly refers to a technique used in painting. Where paint is laid on an area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible.

Staining

• Can be achieved by applying, then quickly removing acrylic colours using a lightly dampened sponge.

Feathering (or Dry brush)

• Relies on the drying speed of the paint on an absorbent ground.

• is created when a dry brush is used to pull paint across a dry surface using quick brushstrokes.

Underpainting

• Is a means of delineating colour areas and/or providing a luminous backdrop for progressive colour layering and glazing.

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Sgraffito

• Makes use of two layers of colour, one dry, one wet. Wet colour is painted over the dried underpaint, and, while still wet, it is scratched into with a tool to reveal the underlying colour.

Glazing

• Is the use of watered-down, transparent paint but here that term refers to a painting process where a clear acrylic medium is tinted with transparent or translucent colour.

• Is used to produce rich surfaces with great colour depth.

Encaustic

• is an ancient technique based on working with wax as a painting binder and medium. Can endure melting under hot lights or be prone to the ill effects of mildew.

Acrylic transfers• Essentially grab the ink

layer of a copied or printed material and embed it into the acrylic film.

• Can be created by:• The image is first covered

with a clear-drying acrylic medium. Once the acrylic has dried, the paper is rubbed away, leaving the ink safely logged into the acrylic sheet.