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May 22, 2009 at 11:15 am #987940
I recently saw this painting at an exhibition here..The paint was so thick, it was like butter or plaster spread over the canvas – like little mountain ridges.How can i make the paint so thick that it sticks up like little mountain ridges?
May 23, 2009 at 8:59 pm #1119180You can just use heavy strokes of paint and leave it to dry. But it’s best to use a medium that will retain the brush strokes and ridges. Try Liquin Impasto made by Winsor and Newton. It will give you that effect.
Impasto is done by either a brush or painting knives. Or both
There are other mediums that will do that too. Do a search for impasto mediums and you’ll get a few.
Kal
May 24, 2009 at 10:44 am #1119169As Kal mentions, there are various mediums which will increase the impasto effect. (It also helps to start with a stiffer paint to begin with, such as Old Holland.) I have used Gamblin’s Cold Wax Medium. It also gives a matte effect to your paint.
Do keep in mind that it’s not a bad idea to paint on a rigid support if you are doing anything super thick.
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"...I wished to live deliberately...and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived." ---Henry David ThoreauMay 24, 2009 at 3:03 pm #1119181And I’ve used James Groves Copal Varnish. Add a tiny bit of linseed oil and the copal to the paint and knife it on. He dries quite rapidly as well and doesn’t take months to dry as pure paint would.
I second that. James Groves mediums are quality products. I haven’t seen any that I didn’t like. And he’s such a nice person. A few days ago I got four mediums from him and wanted to know if they had a sample of the Cole’s Copal Varnish. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to get it just to satisfy curiosity. James Grove was so kind to send me the half bottle he had on his easel as a gift.
Kal
May 24, 2009 at 6:02 pm #1119172Another method is to build up a heavy textured gesso. If you paint thin on top of that, the texture from the gesso is still there, and you don’t have some of the problems you can get with very thick oil paint.
May 25, 2009 at 8:59 am #1119182I also heard about modeling paste, except I couldn’t find any that was for oils.
Has anyone heard about modeling paste for oils and not acrylics?May 25, 2009 at 1:34 pm #1119176I also heard about modeling paste, except I couldn’t find any that was for oils.
Has anyone heard about modeling paste for oils and not acrylics?I use the acrylic modeling pastes. I do all the modeling and base colors in acrylic then go over it with the oils.
May 25, 2009 at 2:36 pm #1119183I do all the modeling and base colors in acrylic then go over it with the oils.
Thats incredible. I didnt know you can mix acrylic and oil paints…
Anyway here’s another painting, this one the paint is so thick, there are trenches 0.5″ deep..May 26, 2009 at 7:28 am #1119173You can try Liquitex Super Heavy Gesso[/URL] – it’s designed to be a gesso so should be no problem painting oils on top. Acrylic modeling paste isn’t really designed to be a base for oil paint so I’d be a little leery of using that with oils. The Super Heavy Gesso is so thick that I apply it with a knife, then further model that with a brush to give it some different textures.
May 26, 2009 at 12:11 pm #1119175Thats incredible. I didnt know you can mix acrylic and oil paints…
Can’t really mix them, but oil paint can be applied over acrylics. Not acrylic over oils though. And thick applications of acrylic gel will dry over night and won’t crack when heavily applied. Works great if you need a heavy texture right from the start.
May 27, 2009 at 9:38 pm #1119170Can’t really mix them, but oil paint can be applied over acrylics. Not acrylic over oils though. And thick applications of acrylic gel will dry over night and won’t crack when heavily applied. Works great if you need a heavy texture right from the start.
Oil paint will usually stick to acrylics initially. How long it will stick is another question.
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Jive Dadson
^^^^^^^May 27, 2009 at 9:41 pm #1119171The old masters used calcite (a.k.a. chalk) and linseed oil. Works good; Lasts a long time. Sometimes they used powdered glass. But I’m afraid of that stuff.
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Jive Dadson
^^^^^^^May 28, 2009 at 12:28 am #1119177Oil paint will usually stick to acrylics initially. How long it will stick is another question.
You seem to indicate that it doesn’t. I’ve tested it by scrubbing down on the oil paint until I hit the acrylic layers. It doesn’t sepperate. Even on techniques where I scrape down the oil paint while its still semi wet it still stains into the acrylic paste. So please answer your question, how long does it stick according to your experience?
May 28, 2009 at 4:49 pm #1119184hmmm i would try using other materials besides the brush. like a pallete knife or something metallic or smoothtextured. Also I think it would take more layers to build up the thickness
May 28, 2009 at 5:35 pm #1119178Res-n-gel works great to if you want to build layers of texture. Here is a link to a fellow wetcanvas artist who uses it for her paintings: http://www.talyajohnson.com/gallery2/v/Trees+and+Leaves/Back_Yard_2.jpg.html
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