This document discusses various painting techniques and styles used by different artists. It mentions that painting is a layered experience and provides tips on smearing paint like butter on toast, using thin lines and hard edged patterns, pressing and lifting with a blade to create scratches and scrapes, and changing pressure with flowing motion to create thick and thin paint. It also lists several artists such as Glenn Hirsch, John Singer Sargent, Bing Zhand, Eddie Fitzgerald, Van Gogh, Monet, Wayne Thiebaud, Joan Mitchell, Tom O'Neill, and Gottfried Helnwein, briefly describing Helnwein's background and subject matter focusing on the human condition and wounded children.

1. Painting Texture and Surface
Glenn Hirsch

2. painting is a
layered
experience

3. John Singer Sargent

5. Bing Zhand

7. Bing Zhand

9. Bing Zhand

54. Smearing, like butter on toast
Flat, minimal and smooth

55. Double-Loading and SMEARING 2 COLORS TOGETHER

56. Thin LINES
hard edged PATTERNS

57. Press and lift, use the TENSION of the blade
SCRATCHING and scraping

58. Change the PRESSURE of your hand, create thick and thin in flowing motion

59. Eddie Fitzgerald

64. Van Gogh

71. Monet

76. Wayne Thiebaud

82. Joan Mitchell

86. Tom O’Neill

94. Gottfried Helnwein
1948-
Austrian-Irish painter, photographer,
installation and performance artist.
He is also known for stage and costume
design for theater, ballet and opera.
The human condition has remained his
subject in self-portraits and Nazi kitsch
historical painting. Much of his work is
dominated by the image of the wounded
child, scarred physically and emotionally.