A Filbert paint brush makes a dependable, versatile option that offers a straight or round shape depending on your needs. For applying thick layers of paint, make sure to have a stiff-bristled brush, and for the watercolor effects like washing, use a soft-bristled brush. For acrylic painting, you’ll want access to a variety of brushes from small to large to use with varying techniques. While this may seem obvious, selecting the right tools can greatly affect the quality of your painting. Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer used glazing in many of his paintings, most notably Girl with the Red Hat where the artist’s striking red hue was achieved through glazing methods. Used since the emergence of oil paint, glazing is not a new technique to painters. By applying a transparent layer of glaze over another layer of opaque paint, you can create a unique, stained-glass effect. Sold for CHF48000 via Koller Auctions (June 2018).Ī glaze is a thin, translucent film mixed with acrylic paint to create a rich, luminous hue and texture of the surface. Though the early masters of this technique, like Seurat, used oil or gouache, this technique can easily be applied to acrylic as well. This is conceptualized in his most famous painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. They method was popularized by French Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat, whose works rely on a separation of color through individual strokes of pigment believed to have a greater vibrancy of color in the observer’s eye. Stippling is closely related to Pointillism, an approach associated with the soft flickering surface of small dots. Today, artists construct varying degrees of shading based on the closeness and boldness of the assemblage of dots as well as utilize different colors to establish real dimension. Though acrylic is a relatively new medium, this technique originated in the 1500s as a method of engraving. Stippling is the creation of a collection of tiny dots, often used in landscape painting.
Sold for CHF25,700 via Koller Auctions(June 2017). Walter Ropélé, “ Frühling am Vierwaldstättersee” (2009). Then when I stroke the paper with the dried brush, it will make various distinct strokes at once, and I start to develop the forms of whatever object it is until they start to have real body…. So I paint with a smaller brush, dip it into color, splay the brush and bristles, squeeze out a good deal of the moisture and color with my fingers so there is only a very small amount of paint left. Wyeth once stated, “I work in drybrush when my emotion gets deep enough into a subject.
Though American realist painter Andrew Wyeth primarily painted in watercolor, his work presents a fine example of the dry brush technique which he used to create structure and layers. Make sure your brush is as dry as possible and loaded with paint for the optimal effect. Using a brush that has not been dipped in water, you can create a scratchy, textured, uneven movement of lines on your canvas. Sold for €5,200 via Tajan (May 2016).ĭry brush is relatively simple to execute. Monique Orsini, “ Noir D’Ivoire II” (2008).