Techniques

A growing practical library of ways to handle paint, build surfaces, create marks and develop your own visual language.

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A practical map of glazing, scumbling, dry brush, impasto, washes and more.

Build expressive marks, broken colour and convincing impasto.

Create luminous transparent layers without muddying your colour.

Create broken texture, edges and atmospheric surface effects.

Use a first layer to establish value, temperature and unity.

Prompts that get you making quickly instead of staring at a blank surface.