Palette Knife Painting

Palette knife painting has become my new obsession.  In my desire to loosen up my style, it seempalette knife portraits a natural choice.  You can only get so detailed with the knife.  It’s frustrating at times — when I’m trying to get some little area done and I desperately want to pick up the brush.  I’ve done a fair amount of knifing during plein air, but recently I decided to try it with portraits. This is from a photo of my beautiful daughter Katie.  It’s interesting.  Not my best painting but interesting enough that now I’ve started a large portrait/figure piece using that technique.  Part of it my desire to “make a painting” not just a picture of someone.  We’ll see how it all pans out.  I definitely haven’t forsaken the brush, but intrigued.

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