Let's paint wonderfully textured sunflowers on canvas. The art technique you see here is called Daubism.

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Are you looking to add more movement and texture into your acrylic and oil paintings? In today's video I will demonstrate how to use spoons and palette knives on this abstract sunflower painting and create a fantastic, low relief sculpture effect in paint as well as a sense of movement.

I am painting with a spoon applying thick slabs of acrylic paint. the technique is identical when you are using oil paint. This painting is on stretched cotton canvas and is 36 inches tall and 48 inches wide. I waited until the underpainting was thoroughly dry before adding this texture.

There are many tools you can use to add texture to your artwork. You can use painting knives, palette knives, spoons, cotton buds (Q-Tips), sponges, brushes, your fingers, really anything can be used to make texture.

Palette knives have a flat blade and are normally used to mix paint but you can also apply paint with them
Painting knives have the hooked edge -see that hooked edge when you look from the side? They come in many sizes and shapes, and can make some wonderful textures
Spoons I use two different sizes of spoons in my work. The spoon leaves a soft, wide mark that is difficult to replicate with a painting knife. Remember if you paint with a spoon to not use it for eating

My name is Dena Tollefson and I am a professional, full time artist from Iowa USA. I provide painting tutorials in acrylic, and occasionally watercolor and oil paint. I host fun art challenges to help you stretch your art muscles and meet new like minded YouTubers.

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My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.

I am an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting. Two of my paintings are in the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art's permanent collection. My originals and commissioned work are available exclusively through the fine art galleries across the US who represent my original and commissioned work.

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