Hay Bale at Mid-day by Janice Tingum

Hay Bale at Mid-day

 by Janice Tingum

Acrylic on Cradled Panel

8" x 8" x 0.875"

Janice Tingum Fine Art

In this painting, I used a combination of brush and palette knife work. The sky was laid in with a palette knife. I then switched to a brush to paint the background. I returned to the palette knife and blocked in major color shapes on the bale and the foreground. 

While I often like to create thick, textural effects when I paint with oils, in my recent acrylic paintings I've been using the palette knife to blend and smooth layers of paint. I let the first layer dry (which doesn't take long with acrylics) and then dab on another color. Working quickly, I gently smooth the new layer of paint over the first layer with the palette knife. I try to allow some of the prior layer to still show through, giving an impressionistic feel to the piece.

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