Heavy Impasto Palette Knife Acrylic Painting Demo - Gary Garrett - Castaway Island

This is an 8x10 studio experiment utilizing a heavy gloss gel medium and 2 palette knives... almost like sculpting with paint. The view is from a photo taken at our Castaway Island Park paintout (geo:lat=30.296795558855105 geo:lon=-81.43208026885986) last spring (right off the Intracoastal Waterway). This technique sacrifices fine details for a more impressionist style of applying the paint. There's a real FREEDOM in not being concerned about details. The technique would probably work better on a larger canvas, but the end result here was nice (and FUN!!) using the small palette knife on my 8x10 canvas panel. The paint on this panel was on average 1/8th inch thick. The music is "A Special Place" by Lord & Taylor.; track 2 from their "Centering The Soul Vol. 3" CD... mixed into the voice-over track is a portion of my birdsong recordings from prior paintouts. Thanks for watching If you liked this video or learned something from it, please RATE it by clicking on a star, and/or LEAVE a COMMENT.