| Impasto is a painting technique in which the artists | | | | it offers the artist, creates dramatic works of art |
| preferred pigment, which is most often oil painting, | | | | that recreate movement and light in a way that |
| is applied so thickly to the canvas that the brush | | | | few other painting techniques can hope to match. |
| strokes or palette tool marks are clearly visible to | | | | Utilizing the palette knife in this unique way when |
| the viewer. Only a very small number of artists | | | | oil painting offers the artist a freedom few can |
| ever attempt to take this type of technique to | | | | achieve when using the more conventional painting |
| the extreme of using only the palette knife, and | | | | techniques. It frees the hand, as well as the mind, |
| not the paint brush, to apply their paints to the | | | | opening the painter's ability to express themselves |
| canvas. It is an even rarer few who master this | | | | and allowing them to tap directly into their |
| type of expert technique. It can take an artist of | | | | subconscious. Using the technique in painting for |
| even advanced expertise many years to become | | | | the past forty years, since being a student at the |
| proficient using this technique in this way. | | | | world renowned Vitebsk Art School, and credits |
| Palette knife painting can be accomplished using | | | | palette knife painting with making it possible for |
| acrylic paint pigments but oil painting with this type | | | | the artist to capture his personal optimism and |
| of tool really takes the technique to the highest | | | | positive life perspective in his fine art landscape |
| level. Because of the longer drying time | | | | paintings, flower paintings, cityscapes, and music |
| associated with this style of painting the artist is | | | | paintings which are all available in worldwide art |
| able to go back into the piece and rework | | | | gallery settings, at art auction, and as limited |
| sections and add deepening layers of pigment and | | | | edition art prints. He has become such a well |
| detail to the fine art piece. Oil painting using the | | | | known master of the palette knife oil painting |
| palette knife offers a unique way to add in both | | | | technique that his work is instantly recognizable |
| varying textures and colorful layers of paint rich in | | | | and never imitable. It is impossible to mistake an |
| pigment and color while still expressing a rare | | | | palette knife oil painting for anything else. |
| energy. Fine art painting, because of the freedom | | | | |