Painting Techniques
A la prima
• Is using neither water nor
mediums as diluents, the
saturated paints can be
manipulated on the
surface.
• Technique remains
workable on the surface
for several minutes,
allowing for wet in wet
blending and textural
manipulation.
• Splatter, pull or drip
Extrusion
• Is drawing lines with
acrylic paint.
• Is ideal for
incorporating linear
details and text into a
painting.
• Is great for creating
relief textures.
Blending
• Can be done with acrylic on
the palette, or directly on
the support using a variety
of methods.
• Is most effective when
completed rapidly
• broken colour can be
achieved by applying raw
colour progressively varying
tones directly onto the
surface produces an optical
colour blend with a
distinctive impasto texture
Impasto
The word "impasto" is Italian in
origin; in that language it means
"dough" or "mixture"; the verb
"impastare" translates variously as
"to knead", or "to paste".
In English, the borrowed Italian
word impasto most commonly
refers to a technique used in
painting. Where paint is laid on
an area of the surface (or the
entire canvas) very thickly, usually
thickly enough that the brush or
painting-knife strokes are visible.
Staining
• Can be achieved by
applying, then quickly
removing acrylic colours
using a lightly
dampened sponge.
Feathering (or Dry brush)
• Relies on the drying
speed of the paint on
an absorbent ground.
• is created when a dry
brush is used to pull
paint across a dry
surface using quick
brushstrokes.
Underpainting
• Is a means of
delineating colour areas
and/or providing a
luminous backdrop for
progressive colour
layering and glazing.
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Sgraffito
• Makes use of two layers
of colour, one dry, one
wet. Wet colour is
painted over the dried
underpaint, and, while
still wet, it is scratched
into with a tool to
reveal the underlying
colour.
Glazing
• Is the use of watereddown, transparent paint
but here that term
refers to a painting
process where a clear
acrylic medium is tinted
with transparent or
translucent colour.
• Is used to produce rich
surfaces with great
colour depth.
Encaustic
• is an ancient technique
based on working with
wax as a painting binder
and medium. Can
endure melting under
hot lights or be prone to
the ill effects of mildew.
Acrylic transfers
• Essentially grab the ink
layer of a copied or
printed material and
embed it into the acrylic
film.
• Can be created by:
• The image is first covered
with a clear-drying acrylic
medium. Once the acrylic
has dried, the paper is
rubbed away, leaving the
ink safely logged into the
acrylic sheet.