Design Media: Palette Knife 2

Video Transcript

"So I've got my tulip and it needs a stem. This, again, is fairly free form. You may want to leave those marks, of where it skips, that's kind of up to you. You can sort of put some down and then scrape it. I could, for example, plop some down here, so that I've got an amount here to work with, and then move it around. You see I'm moving around from there. This is sort of like spreading grout in your bathroom. This will, again, will have a certain amount of texture. If you don't have the palette knife, anything that's fairly stiff and kind of flat will work for you. Here's the end of one of those trick brushes, so I'm going to put some on that and this is going to give me a different look. I'm not going to get the really hard edge, that I got with that metal palette knife but this is at hand. If you've got a brush, you've got something with a handle. This is meant as a ground for paint so it's certainly not going to hurt the paint brush to have it on. Once it's dry, it's pretty permanent, it doesn't really wash off like paint. If you want your brush this clean, you're going to have to clean it before it dries on it. This is, again, a way to have a choice of values, to create some texture, to have fun making marks and having a lot of texture."