All about Impasto

Another lot of exercises for painting, this time working with impasto and expressionism, I worked to a theme of Earth, Air, Fire and Water.

Earth - I had chosen to go mostly thicker impasto because I'd used impasto fairly sparingly for thickening up paint before, but wanted chunky and thick and textured for this lot.

Spak filla, acrylic Derivan background colours and crack paste medium

Impasto medium, River sand and Derivan Matisse acrylics.

Sand, PVA and Gesso mix and Derivan Matisse acrylics.

Air - I applied many thin layers of different colours of paint and used strong isopropyl alcohol and sanding to sand and rub back paint layers.

Water - Thick impasto paste medium with Derivan acrylics.

also added sand to the impasto paste mix

 Fire - mix of impasto paste and thinned out paint onto the rough side of masonite

The fire- thick impasto layers dried and built up over time overlaid with thin glazes and dispersed with isopropyl

while the fire is passing, haze accidentally created by the rough side of the masonite soaking up the colours unpredictably. Impasto paste mixed with acrylics used to depict the burnt trees

Fires passed impasto paste medium added lightly to create the ash ground, thickly for the trees

 I really enjoyed working on all of these!