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How to Paint Impasto Art with Acrylics - Art Tutorial

KR Moehr

CREATING FROSTED GOLD - MODERN ABSTRACT

How to Paint Impasto Acrylics Art Tutorial - FROSTED GOLD - Modern Abstract

Welcome to my art studio!

In this episode I create a small artwork, FROSTED GOLD, on canvas board.

I use:

ART TECHNIQUES

Using these items, we'll cover:

Impasto effects with acrylics

Glazing

Overpainting

Brushstrokes

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Artist, KR MOEHR Original Art Painting, Contemporary Landscapes, Modern Abstract

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TRANSCRIPT:

okay what we're going to do today is

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we're gonna start painting on a small

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canvas board this is an 8 by 10 flat

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canvas panel

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it's canvas on the front and it's just

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really a piece of finished cardboard

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sturdy and these are best when they are

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framed when finished what I'm going to

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do is we're going to create something

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like a thick impasto

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I just did this one and you can see the

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thickness of the paint I used a little

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of silver metallic and white on this one

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I'm just gonna let it dry I really like

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doing these types of paintings they're

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very I don't know they're just fun for

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me so I thought I'd do a quick tutorial

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and show you how I'm going to do this

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what I'm going to do is I'm going to use

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a couple of different shades of gold

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this is a soft body acrylic you can do a

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thicker heavier body acrylic for these

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two would work really fantastically

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because you really want to build up that

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texture with your paint and you can also

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mix some some modeling paste in with

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this that would be fantastic as well to

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really build up that that underbody of

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thickness but see I'm laying quite a bit

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on my canvas here this one is not coming

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out as easily as you as you know they

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kind of dry up after a while and it's

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hard to get them out I generally do that

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then just cut right here and kind of

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scoop it all out and save anything

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that's left over I just put this in a

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plastic bag and that will keep

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surprisingly for a long time so if you

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ever run into that issue but what I'm

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doing is I'm going to just lay this with

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a flat knife technique I'm using a small

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palette knife

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I have if you're doing a larger painting

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of course you're gonna want to use a

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very large spatula unless you want very

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small detail but I kind of just lay it

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and if you can see I'm kind of stair

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stepping it down this way and that way

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you get that sort of cascading look like

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that and I'm really going to put a lot

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of paint on here I'm going to let it dry

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and I'm going to do a little different

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color on the top of it for the next

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section so you could play with this it's

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like again it's kind of like frosting I

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really you know I like frosting and cake

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baking and all that sort of things so

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sometimes it's fun to do this and not

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have any calories nothing around to

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worry about to eat but still get that

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same effect and you can really you can

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move this around as much as you want to

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you can add more colors if you like I'm

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doing a very minimalistic monochromatic

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type of painting and I find that works

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really well with modern pieces you know

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but you can as I'm sure you you've seen

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in past O's can be applied to an

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otherwise flat painting to give it a

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little texture and a little interest on

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the surface without applying an

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underneath texture and so I try to get

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this one out of here again just gonna do

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what I told you about grab my scissors

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I'm just gonna cut the very end here and

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I just scoop it out this is fantastic

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obviously foreign impasto painting and I

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like to use instead of just one tone

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these are very very similar but I'm

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using two different tones of gold

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because in the end when they dry they

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will be slightly different and you're

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going to get a little bit different

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toenail

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here and also what would be really nice

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to stand a little bronze on here if you

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wanted to enrich it a bit I think I'm

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just gonna use the gold on this try to

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finish the edges and do a little

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different stroke here and there with my

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paint so this is kind of where I'm at

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now I'm gonna go through and maybe lay

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some a little bit up here but I'm

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generally doing sort of a two-tone

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painting with this so we'll come back

04:58

and we will finish this in the next

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section okay and just a quick update

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here what I did is I took the painting

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itself it was like this and I laid down

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all the texture and then I turned it

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upside down and I brought some of that

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very thick texture down and sort of a

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cascading pattern with my palette knife

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so I really still have a lot of the

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thick texture at the top and this is

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sort of my Cascade pattern that I'm

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gonna go over with a different color

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when we come back so I just wanted you

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to see that's sort of where we left it

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and I need to let this dry really well

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at least 24 hours I would recommend and

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really let that paint set on there so

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then when you put apply surface paint or

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any glosses glue anything like that it

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won't interfere with it

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okay hello welcome we're back and what

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we're doing is working on our gold

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textured painting I've let this dry

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really thoroughly so now what I'm gonna

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do is I've taken a little bronze paint

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on a flat brush a little satin glaze

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right here you can use gloss or satin

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Saten I'm gonna mix these two together

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because I want just a real light sort of

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wash of bronze I am gonna go over this

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with a little bit of bronze because the

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gold is just it's a little too gold and

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wanna a little different metallic on

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here add some water

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well the mist on my painting and on the

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palate

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aka cheap dollar store paper plate that

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I use as my palette and I'm going to go

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ahead and just you always want to mist

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your painting just a little bit when

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it's fully dry that's the key don't mist

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a wet painting you'll be very sorry

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it'll leave drops that eat into the

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paint

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this is fully dried let it dry a couple

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of days so I can go ahead and missed it

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and the reason you missed is so your

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paint doesn't grab in any certain area

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and you have a very nice sort of just a

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little bit of wetness kind of so the

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paint can move around now what I'm going

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to do is I'm just gonna start and laying

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this down a little bit just to kind of

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see where I want that maybe a little too

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much water in here but that's okay cuz

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we can wipe it off and add more and I'm

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just gonna do this definitely gonna be

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doing some wiping off on this kind of

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blot it just to kind of give me an idea

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of what I want I like some of this some

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of this I want gone and this is gonna

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mute down that gold just a little bit

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but not too much because we we

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definitely like the gold metallic the

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shine and the bright

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yes this is gonna create a richness that

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just simple gold is not going to have

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it's kind of OneNote this is going to

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help us create just a little richness

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add a little gloss with that satin glaze

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and go over it this way I'm gonna turn

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it upside down a little more paint here

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to create just a little more richness a

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little bit so just to pick up on the top

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of that that texture this is gonna give

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me a little more of a multicolor effect

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than just the simple gold it's a little

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darker over here you know highly

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technical here with watered up paper

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towel but then sometimes how you get

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your best your best look you can use a

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sponge as well and honestly if I was

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doing this on a larger canvas I would

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have put down a little more base of

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color and sort of built up from beneath

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the gold I wouldn't have just put gold

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on the white I would have probably put

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down little bronze so underneath you'd

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have a little bit of darkness and depth

10:08

showing through then the gold on top and

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then a little more bronze but this is

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sort of an experimentation and a quick

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painting if you will meaning it's not

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gonna take me weeks and weeks to

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complete like it does my larger campuses

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those I definitely

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you know I take weeks to get those done

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but doing something like this especially

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if you are experimenting you don't have

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to worry about that but you do see where

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if you built up the base of color from

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underneath it would add another depth

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another another layer of tone and more

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depth to the canvas so you can see right

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here hopefully that you've got the gold

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you've got the bronze on top and we're

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definitely picking up some of that on

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top of our our texture here which is

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nice and unique so I'm gonna do because

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I want some depth up in here I'm going

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to put some of this bronze in this area

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left to white there's a reason that I

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did that I want it to have more of the

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actual bronze tone up here then have the

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gold tone I'm just painting that down

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sort of a pull down technique I don't I

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don't know if that's a technical term

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but like that and that is going to be

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that sort of you know cascading effect

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that I really want with this painting

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actually this is the top of the painting

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up here and this is going to be the

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bottom of the painting so that's why I'm

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cascading it down like this and I want a

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little more depth in certain areas like

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that so now what I'm going to do and I'm

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going to do this right while the bronze

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is wet I'm not I don't always advocate

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for adding color on top of color when

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it's wet unless you're doing a real sort

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of washy blended look and I I'm gonna do

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this right on top and

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gonna add some white right from the tube

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right not to my palate here just in the

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corner pick some of that up a little bit

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on my brush my brush tool has the bronze

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on it mix a little bit not too much I

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just want a little bit of something else

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besides some white in there a little

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depth I'm going to just take that and

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I'm gonna bring it down right on top of

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my color and that's going to sort of

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grab some of that bronze but it's also

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going to add you know that base of white

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and to do something a little bit

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different kind of move your brush on us

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put it on the side you can kind of scrum

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it down and that gives a real sort of

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interesting sort of reminds me of a snow

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snow is falling effect versus just the

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Cascade Cup a little more white I'm

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gonna bring that down do a little bit

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different brush stroke here than just

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the simple Cascade and I'm going to sort

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of put my brush on a side angle bring

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that down just do some cross hatching in

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here and this is you know completely and

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utterly up to you what you want to do

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but this is what I'm doing just to

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create a little different look up here

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then just the cascaded white I'm gonna

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bring that down like this covering a

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significant portion of the top and a

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little more white here and there picking

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it up you know just kind of bits and

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pieces here of the impasto which is

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going to just gonna leave that because I

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really like that impasto effect

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or on the side I think I'm gonna get

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just a little whiter over here

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maybe bring that down a little more and

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the texture down in here as you can see

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and that's going to give me that sort of

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look that I'm going for so I'm gonna

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finesse this a bit and then I will come

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back and show you the final painting

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which I'm going to put a nice glaze on

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top of and then it will be ready to slip

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into a frame and display