Painting Techniques

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Painting Techniques
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A la prima

• Is using neither water nor mediums as diluents,
  the saturated paints can be manipulated on the
  surface.
• Technique remains workable on the surface for
  several minutes, allowing for wet in wet blending
  and textural manipulation.
• Splatter, pull or drip

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Extrusion

• Is drawing lines with acrylic paint.
• Is ideal for incorporating linear details and
  text into a painting.
• Is great for creating relief textures.

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Blending

• Can be done with acrylic on the palette, or
  directly on the support using a variety of
  methods.
• Is most effective when completed rapidly
• broken colour can be achieved by applying raw
  colour progressively varying tones directly onto
  the surface produces an optical colour blend with
  a distinctive impasto texture

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Impasto
The word "impasto" is Italian in origin in that
language it means "dough" or "mixture" the verb
"impastare" translates variously as "to knead",
or "to paste". In English, the borrowed Italian
word impasto most commonly refers to a technique
used in painting. Where paint is laid on an
area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very
thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or
painting-knife strokes are visible.
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Staining

• Can be achieved by applying, then quickly
  removing acrylic colours using a lightly dampened
  sponge.

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Feathering (or Dry brush)

• Relies on the drying speed of the paint on an
  absorbent ground.
• is created when a dry brush is used to pull paint
  across a dry surface using quick brushstrokes.

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Underpainting

• Is a means of delineating colour areas and/or
  providing a luminous backdrop for progressive
  colour layering and glazing.

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Sgraffito

• Makes use of two layers of colour, one dry, one
  wet. Wet colour is painted over the dried
  underpaint, and, while still wet, it is scratched
  into with a tool to reveal the underlying colour.
  

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Glazing

• Is the use of watered-down, transparent paint but
  here that term refers to a painting process where
  a clear acrylic medium is tinted with transparent
  or translucent colour.
• Is used to produce rich surfaces with great
  colour depth.

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Encaustic

• is an ancient technique based on working with
  wax as a painting binder and medium. Can endure
  melting under hot lights or be prone to the ill
  effects of mildew.

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Acrylic transfers

• Essentially grab the ink layer of a copied or
  printed material and embed it into the acrylic
  film.
• Can be created by
• The image is first covered with a clear-drying
  acrylic medium. Once the acrylic has dried, the
  paper is rubbed away, leaving the ink safely
  logged into the acrylic sheet.

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