Creating Texture In Acrylic Painting - Guaranteed to Improve Your Paintings

Two ways to create texture in acrylic painting is to spatter paint and the other is to mix modeling paste with the paint. In the example above I spattered many different colors of paint onto the canvas.  I used a large brush loaded with paint and tapped the brush against my hand, dropping and spattering drops of paint. I used cobalt blue, raw sienna, yellow ochre, burnt umber and white.

Once that had dried I mixed modeling paste with yellow ochre and applied it with a palette knife, you can see the rough texture that created over the spattering. This technique is being used for a beach scene that I am painting and the section shown here is sand and pebbles, rocks and a log. My next post will show my progress with this seascape painting.

Experiment with different techniques like adding texture in your paintings and I guarantee it will improve your paintings.

Next Step In Painting a Watercolor of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT

 When you compare this stage of the painting with the previous two photos in my last post I have continued darkening values. More details to the building and trees have been painted with my colors: new gamboge, winsor blue, indigo and brown madder. So far I have used just those colors and as you can see many different shades of one color can be made cooler or warmer by adding a little more cool paint or the warmer paint.

The large tree in the foreground is painted with brown madder and indigo. Next I will be adding textures to the tree along with shadows to give it some form. I will continue in this manner covering less and less of the paper as I paint, painting short is the technique.

Check back for the next step in painting a watercolor.