Description

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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 8 complete step-by-step projects.

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 easy-to-follow step-by-step projects.

Learn to paint:
 

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

Also included in the book are:

 

• Primers on the best palette knives and paints to use
• Color mixing and color theory 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.

Also from the Paint with Me series:Vibrant Watercolor. The Paint with Me series highlights well-known artists and their work in visually appealing and instructive books.

About the Author

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Lisa Elley is an award-winning palette knife artist. Originally from New Zealand, she now paints full-time in 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.

Praise For…

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"An ideal, comprehensive, and thoroughly 'user friendly' DIY course of instruction for artists of all skill levels looking to learn to paint and scrape with oil paint."—Midwest Book Review

"Far from a how-to for beginners, this book includes projects that expertly teach processes, such as color blocking, blending, and multiple effects that can be executed with a knife."—Library Journal