Daily Blog: April 3 2020: Palette Knives

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It’s been fun to catch ephemeral moments in painting with my phone camera every now and then. Photos like this are why I tend to paint thick when I can.

It’s very hard to control thick paint or do ‘what you envision’ so you have to be happy with surprises if you paint this way. You also only usually get one shot, just one swipe of paint and that is what must happen. Reworking thick paint ends up looking kinda bad. I am still no master of this technique, which is why I take the palette knife photos - it’s all accidental, yet I wish it could be preserved forever.

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I’m a painter, I make comics, and sometimes I do computer stuff!

- Becky Jewell