Floral painting – Palette knife – Peony – Painting with oils

In this course we will learn materials and supplies for the painting with a palette knife. We will find out how to make a background, hidden layer for the textured and volumetric painting with a palette knife.

Than we will begin to paint our lush peony applying thick strokes with a palette knife. You will learn how to correct your painting if something went wrong, how to apply petals and make the flower lush lively and volumetric.

Eventually we will finish our painting with details.

You will learn control paint and at the same time paint loose with free movements without any stress.

You will be able to paint with a palette knife so that the layers do not mix and do not interfere with creating the shape that you intended.

A palette knife is a tool that assumes some kind of incompleteness, negligence and this is its charm.

But at the same time, your own idea must be fulfilled! You should get a picture with smooth transitions, steep influxes, dynamic, playful and cool, and not a mess of paint.

After completing my master class, you will create your own cool lush peony, learn how not to drown in oil paint, but emerge as a winner and a creator, and just have a relaxed and creative time, because it simply cannot work.

We re going to need:

Oil paints:

I used Van Gogh, and Cobra, you can also choose another firm but the colors usually all firms use the same. For a palette knife you don’t need any solvents and thinners.

Colors:

Titanium white

Ultramarine

Cadmium Yellow/ Azo yellow

Burnt Umber

Olive green/Viridian green

Carmine

Palette I usually use this tear-off palette. It’s very useful.

Palette knife.

It has to be a soft one. You can check it if you try it on a canvas, it has to bend. If the canvas bends, it is a hard palette knife, and doesn’t match you.

Curved form is universal and very useful. Look for this one.

Small canvas, oil paper or panel 8 x 8 inches, 20 x 20 cm