Leisure Painter

Texture and light

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

How to create an impasto effect

Use glazing to adjust and increase tonality

Work wet into wet using several colours

You will need

Surface

• Stretched canvas, canvas board or an Ampersand board, 16x20in. (40.5⧖51cm)

Acrylics

• Tinting white

• Cerulean blue

• Cobalt blue hue

• Indigo

• Madder brown

• Toning grey

• Light bright green

• Sap green

• Arylamide yellow light

• Cadmium yellow light

Brushes

• Any large painting brush to paint the background

• A palette knife

• Long flat acrylic brushes, Nos. 6 & 2

• Fan hog hair, No.

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