Expressionist Portrait Painting: Holding the Brush

Video Transcript

"Now when you are painting you want to hold a brush like a club as it where. Rather then like a pencil. Because if you hold it like this you make a much smaller more inhibited mark, if you hold it like this you get the whole sweep of your arm into it and you get much more physically involved in the process. Now we are painting here on a fairly large canvas and we are doing a fairly large face on it. But even if I were to paint this face only this big, I would still want to keep holding my brush this way and get that whole shoulder into the action. So and you'll notice what I just did there, was a pretty much a wrong mark here but that does not matter. We'll talk about that in a moment."