Palette Knife Painting: Deep Impasto: Paint beautiful masterpieces using a palette knife and the impasto technique

by Lisa Elley

Overview

Learn how to create your own Deep Impasto® masterpieces using a palette knife and oil paints with this book featuring tips, techniques, and 8 complete step-by-step projects.

Professional artist Lisa Elley works from her studio in the San Francisco Bay Area with the purpose of inspiring and bringing joy to people through her art. In Palette Knife Painting: Deep Impasto, Lisa shares her techniques with you through easy-to-follow step-by-step projects.

Learn to paint:
 

• Art inspired by Vincent van Gogh
• Seascapes and landscapes
• A Tuscan vineyard
• Flower fields
• Wet-into-wet (alla prima)
• With texture
• And more!

Also included in the book are:

 

• Primers on the best palette knives and paints to use
• Color mixing and color theory instructions
• Beautiful, textured artwork that seems to lift off the page

Palette Knife Painting: Deep Impasto is ideal for artists of all skill levels looking to learn to paint and scrape with oil paint.

Also from the Paint with Me series:Vibrant Watercolor. The Paint with Me series highlights well-known artists and their work in visually appealing and instructive books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760382165
Publisher:	Walter Foster Publishing
Publication date:	05/23/2023
Series:	Paint with Me Series
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	853,678
Product dimensions:	8.55(w) x 10.95(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Lisa Elley is an award-winning palette knife artist. Originally from New Zealand, she now paints full-time in her studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lisa’s pieces are lively, uplifting, colorful, and highly textured. Her paintings hang on the walls of private and corporate collectors across the United States, as well as around the world. In addition to selling her art through her website and other online platforms, Lisa hosts live painting events, teaches workshops, designs wine labels, and more. Learn more at lisaelley.com.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Why Paint with a Palette Knife?
Getting Started
Hokusai–Inspired Ocean Wave
Van Gogh–Inspired Poppy Field
Van Gogh–Inspired Irises
Piccola Casa (The Little House)
Summer Peonies
Birch Tree Forest in the Fall
Coastal Landscape with Wildflowers
Tuscan Vineyard Landscape with Sunflowers
Cleanup & Care
Signing Your Art
Varnishing
Presenting
Wiring a Painting
About the Artist

Editorial Reviews

"An ideal, comprehensive, and thoroughly 'user friendly' DIY course of instruction for artists of all skill levels looking to learn to paint and scrape with oil paint."—Midwest Book Review

"Far from a how-to for beginners, this book includes projects that expertly teach processes, such as color blocking, blending, and multiple effects that can be executed with a knife."—Library Journal

From the Publisher

06/10/2024

Award-winning palette knife artist Elley aptly explains art as a feeling, a desire, a memory, and an emotion. Through experience and mistakes, the author has devised a series of eight tutorials, reminiscent of a Bob Ross presentation, to teach multiple palette knife techniques. These lessons give painters finished products that are artist-inspired, from Van Gogh irises to Japanese woodcut Hokusai waves. The author's approach entails bigger sweeps and strokes of paint, as though she's creating swatches of color and then tapping in for highlights and textures on the finished piece. She uses oil paints for her artwork, the book offers alternatives, such as acrylic paint and its properties for molding or modeling paste. A wide assortment of palette knives are presented; the benefits of each are discussed. VERDICT Far from a how-to for beginners, this book includes projects that expertly teach processes, such as color blocking, blending, and multiple effects that can be executed with a knife. This will likely be a popular addition to craft collections.—Charlyn Lyons

Library Journal