Painting Design is crucial to a painting. Here are 6 tips to help you achieve one stroke paint applications.
1) Be aware of how paint is applied to your canvas.
2) Try always to do as much as possible with one stroke of the brush.
3) Remember that paint has a vitality and too much working, handling and continual touching kills this vitality.
4) Look carefully at the shape and variety of the tone you want to express and try to manipulate the swing of your brush in such a way as to get in one touch as near the quality of shape and gradation you want.
5) The lightest part of your touch will be where the brush first touches the canvas when you are painting lights into a middle tone: and that as the amount of paint in the brush get less, so the tone will be more affected by what you are painting into, and get darker.
6) In painting shadows, the darkest part of your stroke will be where the brush first touches the canvas; and it will gradually lighten as the paint in your brush gets less and therefore more affected by the tone you are painting into.
Generally speaking, get your effects with as few brush strokes as possible.
Thinner paint is easier to refine and manipulate.
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Honor Your Creative Spirit!
Ellene
ElleneBreedlove Davis
http://ellenebreedlovedavis.com
good stuff