Figure Painting With A Palette Knife

I try to paint with the palette knife as often as I can now. It frees me up a ton. It is a much slower process for me than with the brush and one has to be willing to' let go' a little. It is not every artist's cup of tea, that's for sure.

People seem to really like blending that body/face/figure to an inch of its' life so the skin looks more lifeless than at a morgue on a cold Monday morning. Certainly classical figure painting is at an all time high in popularity right now. Just look at the art magazines and competition results. Pages of smoothed skin. Nothing wrong with that at all and I truly admire the artists that do classical realism so well. Jeremy Lipking would be a prime example of this www.lipking.com

He is a real master.

I am still finding I want a somewhat polished look in my palette knife figure work...it will be interesting to see where this journey goes.

Off my easel to day...figure study.

Figure Study
SOLD
By Johanna Spinks
Palette Knife
8x8"