Say hello to your inner artist by decorating a blank canvas with colours and patterns of your choice. There is room for everyone even if you are not the artsy type!
The man began painting with fingers and then moved to more sophisticated tools. But now as we move to the age of free expression and experimentation, artists are getting inspired to use different techniques and materials.
You don't have to be a Picasso or get a fancy degree for expressing your creative powers with colours. Here are super easy painting techniques anyone can try with minimal effort and material.
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Salt watercolour technique
You can add the most common ingredient found in your kitchen - salt - to your painting and get beautiful results for an enhanced texture.
You can begin by painting with watercolour on your Canvas. You can also paint with watercolour markers and add water to it with a brush.
Make sure that the colour is wet.
Now sprinkle salt generously on the colour.
Allow the salt to dry on the paper. Let the watercolour sit with the salt for a few minutes. Rubber extra salt with your fingers.
For the best results use watercolour paper.
Vegetable painting
Vegetable painting is one of the easiest and most fun painting techniques. It is mostly taught in schools for children's cognitive stimulation and for stirring up creativity.
All you need is some paint and your favourite vegetables (the ones with the most interesting patterns when sliced up) for this art technique.
The most common vegetables used are:
- Ladyfinger
- Capsicum
- Broccoli
- Carrot
- Corn
- Potato
- Celery
Finger painting
Mobile one may think that fingerprinting is just for kids; it is a highly sought modern-day art technique among impressionists. Using hands instead of a paintbrush helps create astonishing details and textures.
But planning is key in the fingerpainting technique. You need to decide the amount of pressure precision and stroke to get the desired results. So, don't just wait around. Plan, create and dip your fingers in paint!
Digital painting
Many artists are now switching to the digital realm to create a more stylized tech-savvy form of art. The limitations of the traditional canvas are challenged by this painting software like Procreate. Digital painting can be considered a cheat sheet to become artsy. There are easy-to-use tools and functionalities in this software that makes art less messy and tedious.
All you need is an iPad and a stylus to begin if you want to begin with digital painting. For inspiration, we have a plethora of digital painting art ideas you can tap into.
Pouring
This is yet another painting technique where you can have a lot of fun with colour and create a gorgeous mess. As indicated from the name, pouring is one of the many acrylic painting techniques where colour is poured one on top of the other to create patterns by moving the Canvas or allowing the paint to flow in any direction.
This is best if you want to create abstract patterns and compositions.
Pointillism or q-tip painting
Did you know that q-tips can be used to create stunning textures in an otherwise boring drawing? It's even better than filling in colours normally as the q-tips give the freedom to add layers and textures.
So all you need for pointillism painting q-tip, drawing paper and acrylic watercolours. Draw a rough sketch and decide all the colours you want to fill in the painting. Set separate q tips for each colour to dip in. Start filling in the colour with the q-tip. The final texture for this art technique depends on the pressure you put on the q tip.
Splatter painting technique
If you like to get a bit messy while painting then the splatter acrylic painting technique is the one for you. After all, here you get to be messy on purpose.
For splatter painting, you need acrylic colours, paint brushes and drawing paper/canvas.
Create a basic drawing and splatter paint with your brushes dipped in colour. Splatter paint in a planned manner, with specific colours to achieve the desired results.
Marble Painting
Marbles are used for playing on the ground but are now judiciously used for painting too.
It is a fun and creative art technique used by teachers in schools to start children's creativity.
So all you need is a couple of marbles, some acrylic colour, an egg carton, muffin tin paper or cardboard.
Dip your marbles in different colours and put them in separate placeholders in the egg carton.
Now place the paper inside an open cardboard box so that the marble stone slides off the edges. Put your marbles one by one onto the cardboard box or all together and shake them to get the desired texture.
Tape resist art
You can create interesting geometrical patterns with tape and paint too. They will come out neat with clear edges. For this acrylic painting technique, you will need a couple of washi tapes, paintbrushes, palette and canvas.
Place your tips on the Canvas in a pattern that you desire. Fill in the colours with your paintbrushes in the white spaces on the canvas. Allow the colour to dry. Finally, remove the washer tapes to get the desired pattern.
Tape can also be used in traditional painting to create more precision.
From all the art painting techniques that you might have seen above, it is clear that revolutionary art creation is possible with any available material and out of the box thinking.
Apart from the above mentioned unique art techniques, there are others like body painting, airbrushing, pulling and scrapping, splattering, mouth and foot painting, machine painting and impasto that are being used by artists worldwide.
The traditional paintbrush can be avoided altogether if you know no the type of texture your medium will bring on the edge it will create. So feel free to include objects and materials in your next paint session because there are no rules when it comes to art!
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