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Palette Knife Painting: Deep Impasto

Paint beautiful masterpieces using a palette knife and the impasto technique
By Lisa Elley
Series: Paint with Me
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Palette Knife Painting: Deep Impasto by Lisa Elley offers a contemporary take on oil painting, focusing on impasto techniques achieved with a palette knife. The book provides step-by-step projects suitable for beginners and intermediate artists, featuring subjects like Van Gogh-inspired art, seascapes, landscapes, and cityscapes. It also covers practical advice on working indoors or outdoors, selecting the right palette knives and paints, and colour mixing, all supported by vibrant, textured artwork.
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This book is perfect for aspiring and practising artists keen to explore or deepen their skills in impasto oil painting using palette knives, whether novices or intermediate painters.

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Learn how to create your own Deep Impasto® masterpieces using a palette knife and oil paints with this book featuring tips, techniques, and 10 step-by-step projects.

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Take a modern approach to oil painting with Palette Knife Painting: Deep Impasto, a book that highlights impasto techniques created with a palette knife.

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 beginner- and intermediate-level step-by-step projects. Learn to paint:

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

Also included in the book are:

  • Suggestions for where to paint, whether you like to be outside or inside
  • Primers on the best palette knives and paints to use
  • Colour mixing 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.

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  • Palette Knife Painting: Deep Impasto
    Take a modern approach to oil painting with Palette Knife Painting: Deep Impasto, a book that highlights impasto techniques created with a palette knife. 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...
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Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Praised as an "ideal, comprehensive, and thoroughly 'user friendly' DIY course" by Midwest Book Review, this book suits artists of all levels interested in mastering oil painting with a knife. Library Journal notes it goes beyond basic instruction to expert teaching of techniques like colour blocking, blending, and diverse effects.

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ISBN: 9780760382165

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 May 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Walter Foster Publishing

Illustration: color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 544g

Pages: 128

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About the Author

Lisa Elley is an award-winning palette knife artist who works from 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.




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