A fresh new guide to palette-knife painting for today’s painting enthusiasts, featuring step-by-step tutorials for a range of different subjects using a variety of techniques.
Learn how to paint using impasto and other thick paint techniques to create striking art for your home. Author and artist, Melissa McKinnon, explains how to work with thick paint using brushes, palette knives and your fingers, to create painterly art that expresses your creativity.
In addition to the key techniques there are step-by-step instructions and photography for 12 projects based on landscape, floral and abstract themes.
About Melissa McKinnon
Melissa McKinnon is a Canadian artist specializing in textured art. Her work celebrates colour, texture, and movement with layers of thick, vibrant paint. Melissa's work is inspired by nature and features oceans, florals, mountains, and trees in both representational and abstract styles. Visit her website www.melissamckinnonart.com
Crafts Beautiful
A tonic for those chilly winter evenings spent indoors, Textured Art is truly a portal to other worlds. Artist Melissa McKinnon transports you to places miles away, from lush poppy fields in Tuscany to striking Canadian mountain ranges, with her lifelike impasto paintings. She teaches you how to create the same transportive magic in your own work, covering essential tools and materials, colour theory and guided impasto art exercises before diving into 12 projects for you to try your hand at.
