slightly later in the beginning (week II)

Hi again.

Update:

They were all about marketing your art.
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Anyways, let's talk about textures, or a few of the main ones I can actually try to accomplish.

We'll start this off easy and talk about impasto. It vaguely sounds like the punchline to the "what do you call fake pasta," joke. We could modify it, like, "what do you call a fake oil painting technique? an impasto," but that's only if you really don't like your friends.

It's basically when when you layer a lot of paint onto the canvas to get a nice ~3 dimensional effect~. Think of it like a bad John Green novel.

It's used a lot in expressionism, like the work of everyone's favorite, Vincent Van Gogh. Check out one of my favorite paintings by him (and one of my favorite paintings overall):

Starry Night Over the Rhone

 Frank Auerbach, (in my professionally unprofessional opinion), shows this the best in his paintings when he makes stuff like this.

Portrait of Catherine Lampert

It gives paintings more dimension and overall makes it more interesting to look at. Isn't it neat? Jackson Pollock also used impasto, apparently, but I don't really think it was purposeful. Not to mention his art looks like absolute vomit that was coated in asphalt and then someone else vomited on that after their dog took a s-

Okay, that's enough. 

Oil paint can be applied with anything, really, to achieve the impasto aesthetic. I have palette knives (thanks Kyle) that I can use. However, they are probably considered a weapon and I can't bring them into school. I could use brushes, but that would shove paint into them and I would rather not do that. It'd make it harder to clean, and eventually the brushes would harden and be unusable. 

Now let's talk about dabbing. Dabbing is really just putting paint down quickly and frequently to get a cool-looking effect I can't really explain. 

I made this test painting where I tried a mixture of impasto and dabbing. The dabbing makes it look like the painting is slightly raised, like grass on a putting green, y'know? There's not an abundance of information about this, only some great 2016 content. 

It can be applied simply, with a paintbrush and moving it up and down. Rapidly.

And then there's ala prima. It's a fun technique where wet paint is put onto wet paint to look really cool. It was used with artists like Paul Cezanne. It makes a nice messy effect that's good for blending paints together.

Mont Sainte-Victoire

It's a fun time. I'm excited to try out these effects, especially ala prima because it's fast and I enjoy doing it. I'm an impatient trash monster.

Ideally, I'd do this with a larger brush, to maximize fun. I guess. I don't know, it depends on the painting.

So, yeah. Love life. Love living. Thanks for following the updates.

My main source is Gary: http://garybolyer.com/2011/08/11/top-6-ways-to-create-texture-in-oil-painting/

But for extra stuff: http://painting.about.com/od/artglossarya/g/defallaprima.htm , http://emptyeasel.com/2007/07/26/what-is-impasto-thick-textured-paint/ , http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/painting/impasto-technique.htm