Different Techniques To Paint

Artists usually use painting techniques to bring texture to a work.

Every type of paint offers many different options for techniques and styles. Similarly, the surface you choose to apply paint to will change the available techniques and styles. Though the classic techniques are most frequently used, painters are always inventing new and original techniques. Do not be afraid to experiment with techniques of your own.

Oil Paint

Alla prima is a technique where you try to finish the painting in one sitting. This is one layer. Under-painting and glazing is a technique where the artist makes a rough sketch with the paint, and then goes over the under-painting with various colors of oil paint. Wet-into-wet is a style of painting where the artist blends wet paints together for a soft integration. Broken color is a technique which applies oil paint directly to the canvas in a stroke without blending it at all.

Acrylic Paint

Splattering is a technique used with a thinner paint that will splash from the paintbrush by waving the brush quickly in front of the canvas. You need to use protective tarps for this technique. Scratching is a technique where you use a tool of some kind to scratch dry paint from the canvas to expose underlying paint. Texturing is a form of acrylic painting where you use a modeling paste to make texture on the surface of the canvas before painting over it with acrylic paint.

Watercolor

An application of alcohol to an almost dry watercolor application produces light, well blended streaks on the board. You can sprinkle salt onto watercolor paint during various phases of drying to create a blotchy effect ranging from very blotchy if wet to a fine sprinkled texture if the paint is nearly dry. Using sandpaper to remove dried watercolor provides a rough texture to the pigment. A pencil eraser will effectively remove dried watercolor paint in textures, patterns or sketch form.

Home Interior Painting Techniques

Use a primer before adding interior wall paint.

Color washing is an interior wall color technique, where you overlay fresh white paint with a wash of color. For this you can use ordinary artist's acrylic paint mixed with water, then you wash the wall like you are cleaning it with a sponge. Rag rolling is a technique where you crumple an old rag in your hands and run it over wet paint on the walls. Sponging is a technique where you dab a sea sponge lightly in paint and blot it onto a fresh, dry coat of paint.

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