Howard Park  

Palette knife painting lends an intuitive freshness to oil paintings. Adding the loose and opposing mark-making of a brush gives a new texture to the paintings. In this workshop, students will learn to enhance their own painting style, whether impressionist, expressionist, abstract, or realist, by using both palette knife and brush.  Using a palette knife is a great way to build up thick texture and create broken color effects, while the brush can be used to create effective lost and found edges. 

Learn to make bold strokes with the palette knife, to use the edge of the knife to create sharp lines, and to use a variety of knife blade shapes. Complement these bold strokes with soft edges and hidden and lost lines created with a variety of brushes. Learn how to paint on top of wet layers without lifting the paint below and to make multicolored palette knife strokes. This workshop will cover: 

• Techniques of knife painting using knives of different sizes and shapes 
• Brush painting using a variety of brushes 
• How to incorporate a brush to express the various elements of land and seascapes (sky, clouds, water, rocks and grass) 
• How to paint lines for fences, tree branches and sharp edges. 

Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 3pm   

March 23 and 24 

Members $250 / Non-Members $265 (If signing up for 2 Days) 

Members $125 / Non-Members $140 (If signing up for 1 Day) 

 Class Supply List   

Favorite paints and painting surface 

3 flexible painting knives of different sizes (including larger sizes), and a mixing knife 

Favorite brushes of various sizes. Large brushes are recommended. Bring a few inexpensive chip brushes from the hardware store. 

Large mixing palette (avoid paper palettes or a palette with edges if possible)  

Students can feel free to work from the demo image or to bring their own photo references