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Thursday 6 August 2015

Impasto Painting with Acrylic - New Works and News

On July 15 and 16th I attended the UPFRONT Festival in Whitehorse on the Wharf on the banks of the Yukon River.  Arts Underground sponsored this wonderful event and for 2 days I was one of their demonstrating artists.   I decided on Impasto painting for the demos as I find this to be a very spontaneous way of painting and I do not look at any reference material when I do it. There is a lot of interaction with the public when I am painting so this works well for me.

There is some preparation the day before. The canvas is gessoed with some colour and shapes drawn in with paynes grey. Then I use impasto gel to build up the texture before I start the main body of work.  The gel needs 24 hours to dry and is placed in the areas where I want extra texture ( like in the leaves and trunks of the aspens/birches and the petals of the fireweed. ) I had so much fun during the 2 days that I decided to do a little more impasto work in the next few weeks!

  Yukon Birch
Impasto Acrylic on Canvas
24x18 inches

Yukon Fireweed
Impasto Acrylic on  Birch Panel
11x14 inches


Impasto Yukon Autumn Aspens
Impasto Acrylic on  Canvas
36x12 inches


Fireweed- Little Salmon Lake
Impasto Acrylic on Canvas
6x6 inches


 Yukon Fireweed Sunset
Impasto Acrylic on Canvas
6x6 inches