Cliff Face - Painting with a plastic knife

Speed painting of a heavily layered and textured abstract painting, using acrylics and lots of gloss medium by Steve Johnson.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Abstract expressionism
• speed painting
• modern
• contemporary
• howto
• Steve Johnson
• plastic knife
• acrylic
• gloss medium

[sharonhart12345]

Love the painting. What music is that BTW.

[artbystevejohnson]

@sharonhart12345 Thanks! - I think the music is:

Inner Dream

artist: Barrie Gledden, Kes Loy

album: ANW1167 - Chilled Lifestyle 2

length: 3:01

label: Audio Network plc

genre: Acoustic

I used YouTube's audioswap, where they offer up some choices, expecting them to give the group a credit on the vid but that doesn't seem to happen.

[artbystevejohnson]

A couple of thoughts:

The knife used was a cheap plastic disposable one

It was already heavily coated with dried on medium and paint - this seems to work much better than a new knife so when it breaks I may put a few coats of medium on a new one before using it.

To get the texture which really makes this painting work I used more medium than I usually do and no water.

And thanks for watching and to anyone who is following these (o:

[afaf233]

@sharonhart12345 total shit painting......a fraud

[billholb1974]

WOW! that's beautiful!! xD

[jbridge337]

love it - a split screen to see what is going on on the palette would also be cool

[ocapana]

Hi, whats that white stuff you put before brushworking? and why?

[itsMEbiotch1]

eww its ugly xD