IMPASTO LANDSCAPE
WITH GELS & PASTES
GEL MEDIUMS & PASTES offer many ways to build texture. We offer five
consistencies from our most viscous High Solid Gel to our Soft Gel. Each gel is available in Gloss,
Semi-Gloss and Matte finishes. Pastes can be used to achieve a variety of effects and expressions.
Pastes are opaque and create a white or clay-tone finish with a variety of textures and properties.
Available in:
M000962 Impasto Landscape with Gels & Pastes
IMPASTO LANDSCAPE
WITH GELS & PASTES
TOOLS / MATERIALS:
• Palette knife
• Soft round brush
GOLDEN PRODUCTS:
• GOLDEN Fluid Teal
• GOLDEN Fluid Titanium White
• GOLDEN Heavy Body Ultramarine Blue
• GOLDEN Heavy Body Hansa Yellow Medium
• GOLDEN High Flow Iridescent Silver (Fine)
• GOLDEN Light Molding Paste
• GOLDEN Heavy Gel (Matte)
STEP - BY - STEP:
STEP 1: Using a flat brush, create your underpainting
with a solid painted layer of Fluid Teal. The Fluid paints are
perfect for quick opaque coverage. Let dry.
STEP 2: Mix Heavy Gel (Matte) with Heavy Body
Ultramarine Blue and a little Fluid Titanium White for a
light blue sky color. This mixture will be easier to apply
with a palette knife. Create some texture by scraping this
color down in places so that the Teal underpainting shows
through. Carve into the mixture and draw lines for the cloud
shapes with the tip of your palette knife.
STEP 3: Mix Light Molding Paste with Fluid Titanium
White, then use a brush to apply the mixture to the cloud
shapes. For dimension and texture, let the brush strokes be
obvious. Let this dry.
STEP 4: To create the green foreground, mix Heavy Gel
(Matte) with Heavy Body Hansa Yellow Medium and Heavy
Body Ultramarine Blue. Apply with a palette knife. Using the
tip of your palette knife, carve out the vertical marks.
STEP 5: Using a brush, paint a layer of Heavy Body
Ultramarine Blue in the upper sky and use this same color
for a simple wash across the vertical lines in the green area.
STEP 6: When dry, use High Flow Iridescent Silver on
the under-side of the clouds. This will create a shadow
effect. You could also wash some of this color into the sky,
revealing the colors underneath. This might take two days to
dry!
Visit http://www.youtube.com/goldenpaints for more techniques with GOLDEN Acrylics.