Creating Texture: Spoons & Knives Impasto Lily Pond Painting Technique

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Let’s paint beautiful water lilies basking in sunlit waters using acrylic on canvas using a thick, impasto art technique called Daubism.

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This painting was created for the #FlowerPowerArtChallenge I am hosting here on YouTube. Please be sure to watch the other artist's entries to the challenge and show them some love.

I am demonstrating on a 16x20 stretched cotton canvas using palette knives and spoons in an art technique I developed in the year 2000 called Daubism for the thick slabs of oil paint or acrylic paint applied with spoons and palette knives. The texture feels like a low relief sculpture.

I will show you step by step how you can paint your own version of these colorful water lilies in acrylic on canvas. Colors used in today's demonstration (all from Golden heavy bodied acrylics are titanium white, yellow ochre, primary yellow, diarylide yellow, pyrrole orange, napthol red, permanent alizarin crimson, dioxazine purple, ultramarine blue, phthalo blue red shade, teal, and Mars Black.


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My name is Dena Tollefson and I am a professional, full time artist from Iowa USA. I provide painting tutorials in watercolor, acrylic, and oil paint. I hope you will subscribe and come back again. Be sure to ring the subscription bell so you never miss new content for your art career development.I am known for deep, vibrant colors in my signature painting technique called Daubism.

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I am a Christian and my artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use my paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.

Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.

I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the "feel" of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.

My work known as "Daubism" is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint."

I am an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting. Two of my paintings are in the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art's permanent collection. My originals and commissioned work are available exclusively through the fine art galleries across the US who represent my original and commissioned work.

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