This document discusses different painting techniques using knives to create texture on surfaces, including smearing paint like butter on toast, pressing and lifting the knife to create lines and patterns, and changing pressure with the hand to make thick and thin paint flows. It also mentions Vincent van Gogh using painting knives along with brushes, and an artist mixing sand into paint to add a gritty texture.

1. Painting Texture and Surface
Glenn Hirsch

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

4. Double-Loading and SMEARING 2 COLORS TOGETHER

5. Thin LINES
hard edged PATTERNS

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

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

8. Vincent used painting
knives as well as brushes
to create texture in his
work.

9. Vincent often worked-out his painting knife strokes in separate ink
drawings like this.

15. This artist is working exclusively with a variety of painting knives
(Eddie Fitzgerald)

19. This painting has sand mixed into the paint which adds a ‘gritty’ texture both to the paint and to
the meaning of this ‘funereal rite.’ (David Miller)

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