The Power of IMPASTO: Elevate Your Impressionist Paintings

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9 ай бұрын

Discover the captivating technique of impasto painting-a technique that has the power to transform your painting. I explore why incorporating impasto into your Impressionist-style paintings can take your work to new heights.
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Unveiling Impasto: Discover the essence of impasto-a technique that adds texture and depth to your canvas like never before. Impasto isn't just a technique, but a way of unlocking your full creative potential.
Artists Embracing Impasto: Explore the works of renowned artists who have embraced impasto to create visually stunning and emotionally charged masterpieces.
Personal Impasto Journey: I share personal examples of how I integrate impasto into my own work.
The Fear Factor: Understand why beginners often shy away from impasto and learn how to overcome the common fears that hinder artists from exploring this powerful technique.
Elevate Your Artistry: Impasto can revolutionize your painting process. Learn why impasto isn't just an option-it's an essential tool for taking your art to the next level.
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@janinem3280 9 ай бұрын

Texture makes a painting interesting and naturally adds shadow and depth. Life is in 3-D! "Thick and juicy paint" 🙂

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

absolutely!

@yeshuaiscomingbackrepent2357 9 ай бұрын

🖌️🎨 Impasto is awesome! I love texture so I use it in MOST of my painting. Acrylic, oil, and believe it or not WATERCOLOR! I found Golden's watercolor ground that gives TEXTURE to watercolor painting and I used the entire jar! I rarely paint without impasto in some form or another. Oil over acrylic is great! I actually FIXED an acrylic painting of a horse head that I considered tossing. I used Sennelier oil paint sticks on the painting and now it's one of my FAVORITES! If anyone has never used impasto I agree with you ..JUST DO IT! 😁

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Great tips for watercolor - thank you!

@yeshuaiscomingbackrepent2357 9 ай бұрын

@@MalcolmDewey You are very welcome! I didn't know it existed, I was at the art store I often visited and speaking with the workers who knew me, they said something about QOR from Golden and I said WHAT? There's texture for WATERCOLOR? Show me! 😁The rest is history...lol

@factyou123 4 ай бұрын

Thanks, very informative and comprehensive 😊

@Sheena268 9 ай бұрын

Thank you once again Malcolm for your encouraging videos. Always look forward to them. Impasto here I come! 😘

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Enjoy!

@natalykenny2069 9 ай бұрын

Yes to impasto! I was afraid to use it before, but nowadays I'm much braver thanks to your courses! Thank you, Malcolm !❤

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Excellent! Go for it

@paulaverger4129 9 ай бұрын

I love watching you paint. I look forward to more full painting demos. I’ve started using impasto since watching you paint and I love it. I paint with more freedom and joy. Thank you!

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

@user-ed5zl2cw2h 4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for this short yet concise lesson!

@MalcolmDewey 4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@christinelewis5765 9 ай бұрын

Nice video. I have been using this more and more over the past many months, and I love it! It is difficult to change what you’ve been doing, but it is worth the effort. Impasto really does add to the interest and energy of a painting.

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Totally agree!

@bobgoodnoe4583 9 ай бұрын

Thanks, Malcolm. 👍

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Very welcome

@trentriver 8 ай бұрын

That's pretty much all I do - love doing impasto!

@MalcolmDewey 8 ай бұрын

✅

@donmorrissey1453 9 ай бұрын

I really value your painting tips. You have taught me loads and thanks to you and another artist I watch sometimes named Turner Vinson, I'm hooked on impasto. I find it so much more rewarding and exciting to what I was doing, which was realism.

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

My pleasure 😊

@juliegriffiths4272 9 ай бұрын

I had forgotten all about impasto, I will give this a go. Thank you again.

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Its a pleasure Julie

@selmahudson 7 ай бұрын

Love your style❤

@MalcolmDewey 7 ай бұрын

Thank you Selma

@lazarenwaleri 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, brother, you open my eyes.I'll drink to you.

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Any time!

@JNParker 9 ай бұрын

Ooo thanks - I have a painting I'm working on informed from your examples and lessons, and it was definitely missing something. I keep looking at it and thinking What Is Missing? Now I know. Back at it this afternoon.

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Glad it helped you!

@kingfloyd4150 9 ай бұрын

Hi- I appreciate the impasto summary and your driving these important notes home. The videos are great + I've found my subscription to your Live Channel, incredibly helpful. Is there a demo video for the beach piece featured in this presentation via one of your resource outlets? Thanks

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Not yet, bit I am putting together a collection of impasto lessons and the beach scene will be included.

@Twiddle_things 6 ай бұрын

As much as I love digital art, it does have its drawbacks. Sure a robust program specifically made for painting can mimic the look of say impasto, but it'll never be the same. You'll never look around and see as the shadows shift. There's something so therapeutic about laying down dollops of colour and seeing them form a real painting in real time 😊 excellent video

@MalcolmDewey 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely agree - there is no real substitute.

@baiservole2298 4 ай бұрын

You are so on point! I love this loose, undefined kind of art work with so much movement and color, but I can’t seem to get my mind to get with it. Somewhere inside I want it to look “right” and have boundaries it’s really frustrating telling myself to let go and embrace it.

@MalcolmDewey 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely, it is a struggle. Let it evolve. It takes time.

@baiservole2298 4 ай бұрын

@@MalcolmDewey Thanks for the encouragement! Do you find that this is more for advanced artists who have experience, or do people who are starting off in art journey find success with it as well?

@dinah13 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, I am new to impasto. I am following an Australian artist and he is only work with impasto.

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Welcome! I would suggest using it in specific places in the painting like the lightest focal area. Brightly lit leaves and that sort of thing.

@dinah13 9 ай бұрын

@@MalcolmDewey thank you for your help 🤍

@mona2242 9 ай бұрын

Love to work with impasto, I only work in Impressionism with the intention of painting smoother strokes but my nature takes the best of me and I actually run for the palette knife. What a high without any side effects 😅 Seriously, I try to be more subtle but it’s just in my nature to lay it on thick. One question I have for you Malcolm, is it possible to varnish a painting with thick impasto? Thx

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Thick paint is addictive 😄 for sure. Yes I do varnish every painting even if I have to wait a few months. Use retouch varnish at it allows drying to contine. also spray versions are very useful.

@sarahkrank2590 9 ай бұрын

You've convinced me - I'll give it a try! One question. I've never varnished a work before. How does varnish work with impasto? I'd like to varnish a 7 year dry work by my mom but in several places the paint is about an 1/8th inch thick and I don't want the varnish to pool. I believe a good varnish will protect it from dirt and UV rays. Will I have a problem? Thanks for your encouragement. I know you're right and impasto IS missing from my paintings!

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Make sure the painting is dusted carefully. Then you can lightly brush on the varnish. Dont pour it on. Look out for pooling and brush that out. Alternatively use a pray varnish like a retouch varnish by Krylon.

@annameier5000 6 ай бұрын

Я тоже часто рисую Маслом по Акрилу...а изнутри свечение...это очень красиво !!! Есть очень много техник...а мне очень нравится ваша !!! Спасибо !!!!

@MalcolmDewey 6 ай бұрын

Thank you too

@andrewvalenski921 3 ай бұрын

Love the video - thank you for sharing. Unsolicited suggestion: made a podcast and just talk through whatever you’re painting in real time. You’ve got a solid recording setup, a lullaby voice, and a lot of info to share. I’d love to be able to just pop on a long-form podcast where you talk over your painting process. Subbed

@MalcolmDewey 3 ай бұрын

Thank you - interesting suggestion - you would listen to that without watching an accompanying painting demonstration? If so I have plenty of long form recordings that would work. Let me have your thoughts, perhaps I can do a pilot episode soon?

@andrewvalenski921 3 ай бұрын

@@MalcolmDewey exactly that. The visual is incredibly useful if someone’s trying to follow along specifically, but I often use videos as “conversational instructions,” where I do my own thing, but listen to something relevant but not distracting. So if I’m sitting down to paint something and want to use an impasto technique, I may throw on a long form impasto painting video, follow along for the first step or two, and then just do my own thing but keep the video running in the background so I have “something” to refer or listen to in the gaps. There’s a niche comedian called Joe Pera whose whole shtick is predicated on this idea, with their most popular works being “Joe Pera talks you to sleep.” It’s incredibly interesting and funny, but in a casual, meandering, and unspecific sort of way

@MalcolmDewey 3 ай бұрын

@@andrewvalenski921 thank you! I will work on something like that.

@NicolasConnault 24 күн бұрын

I'm trying so hard to use thicker paint, but I'm constantly fighting my instinct to save money by not "wasting" paint... I keep applying it too thin, and then I have all this extra paint on my palette which I end up throwing away, it makes no sense :D

@MalcolmDewey 23 күн бұрын

Yes it is natural but once you break through that mindset you will reach another level of enjoyment. Persist and it will happen.

@fatherburning358 4 күн бұрын

And I. Frustrating 🤦

@ritabykhovsky4175 9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much. As always very interesting. I use acrylic. What is the name of the paints to order?

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Acrylics: Amsterdam by Royal Talens for student paints. Golden acrylics for artists quality.

@ritabykhovsky4175 9 ай бұрын

@@MalcolmDewey Thank you.

@lemonade708 9 ай бұрын

I find that the oil paints I have are simply not as smooth and buttery as the ones you use in your videos, do you mind sharing which oil paints you use please?

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

For demos I use Maimeri Classico or Van Gogh by Royal Talens. Both excellent value paints.

@lemonade708 9 ай бұрын

@@MalcolmDewey Thanks for sharing Malcolm, I’ll look into these brands!

@kathleendanford9420 7 ай бұрын

Now don’t laugh. I just migrated to this process without knowing what it was called yes an art student for years. Used acrylic and gel medium. Some I added sterilized fine sand too. Still reaching for as you say just the right amount and to loosing up a bit in my creative process . I been away so long that I have forgotten all the tricks to painting . Believe it I did not get any hands on experience applying mix medium until I took science illustration courses . How to incorporate water colors and color pencil and caulk . To create realistic illustrations . I look forward to viewing your instructional videos to see what I missed through out my college years as I do believe even though one thinks that art is stagnant that the tools to apply it has changed over the years. My last frontier experiment was to take fractal computer art and reinterpret to water color paintings . Needless to say it tickled my studio professor to no end. The student art body was in an artist rebellion against computers taking their art career away so I showed them it can work both ways.

@MalcolmDewey 7 ай бұрын

The amazing thing is that we never stop learning. Life is too short! 😄

@schill1758 9 ай бұрын

I like your yt videos and have tried to "join" "enrol" " start course" "start now".... etc but this is so confusing I gave up. Too many buttons to click on that don't lead anywhere 🤷‍♀️

@MalcolmDewey 9 ай бұрын

Yes there are buttons to click but I promise they do lead to the right place.