

Finally, I pulled out a few good brushes to finish up the important details. At this point, I blocked in the cows and and refined the highlights and shadows…ĥ. After blocking in the shapes with the putty knife and utility paintbrushes, I flipped the canvas upside down to help me to better see the shapes.Ĥ. The new underpainting was just perfect for the palette of this subject.)ģ. (I took this reference photo last year while on my way to Yellowstone National Park and I been looking forward to painting this scene. You can see the image is on my computer monitor to my left as well as a printed version above. I decided to use this ‘new’ canvas as an under-painting for a landscape painting. After two days of work I was still unhappy with the oceanscape, so one late night I hastily covered it up at the end of a painting session.

This painting first started out as an abstract oceanscape and evolved into a pastoral landscape painting!Ģ. With a brush in my left hand and a putty knife in my right, I can easily push and pull the paint around the canvas!ġ. I have also been using really inexpensive household paintbrushes made out of hog-hair bristle. INTENDED USES Suitable for making highly light-and weather-resistant flat coats. I really enjoy the freedom these knives allow me. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Product Code: I373-3715 RELEST Wind Putty Contour Cartridge is a viscoplastic, solvent-free, fast curing and easy to sand polyurethane filler. Fine artists can use these knives as giant palette knives to create wonderful texture, depth and interest to their oil or acrylic paintings. Last week, I posted an image of my recent ‘putty knife’ painting on my Fine Art Tips Facebook Fan Page and received quite a few questions and comments, so I thought I would share the process here with you.Ī ‘putty knife’ is a utility knife, sometimes called a drywall scraper, or spatula. Perfect for Taping, Scraping Paint, Drywall Spackle (4. My goal has been to add to my own artistic repertoire in order to more texture to my paintings – and the putty knife sure does the trick! 1-48 of over 3,000 results for 'putty knife' RESULTS HORUSDY 5-Piece Putty Knife Set, Stainless Steel Scrapers, Heavy Duty Non-Slip Handle 1.5', 3', 4', 6'and 3' 6 in 1 Painters Tool. This all started last month when I began taking some ‘abstract’ painting classes with fellow artist, David deVillier.
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