How to Start a Knife Flower Painting?

Have you tried flower using knife painting? If no, try now it is amazing and fun loving process. Also very easy if you work on it carefully.

Here is a step by step guide of making a flower from painting knife.  We have already discussed about painting using knife in our yesterday news titled how to start palette knife painting?

And today we will make flower using knife painting. We will take an instance of Flower tree with only its roots and leaves but a colorful version of the same.

The Things to keep in mind while making knife painting. Try to use bold paint and a thick impasto texture. Impasto painting is defined as a way of applying the three dimensional paint in which strokes made by brush or knife will be visible. You can get knowledge about Impasto painting by clicking here.

In order to use the thick texture of paint, you need to mix them with a solution. You have many options available in either market or at your kitchen shelf as well. This will thicken your paint and allows you to give more textured look on the canvas. Read Here about the medium available to thicken the paint.

MATERIALS REQUIRED:
Before you start putting your masterpiece on canvas, the materials you need for a knife flower painting are given below:

-Acrylic paints
-A painting knife
-A rag or damp cloth
-A primed canvas for acrylic painting
-Gel or Matte medium

As you are ready with all the preparations, pull up your socks and get ready to make your first knife flower painting. Given below are the steps perform to make it.

STEP 1: KNOW YOUR BASE
Start with a professional quality primed canvas, apply the first layer of the paint without any medium. The colors required to complete your painting should be taken in right proportion. Here in our painting we need are yellow, green, white and orange. Merge the colors and make a base for your painting.

STEP 2: ADD MEDIUM
Now add the medium you want. There are n number of mediums available in the market. You can use any but the best one to use is gel medium. It mixes well with all colors and gives the paint a glossy sheen. You can also use Matte gel but it will give your painting a dull and matte finish. Glossy one should be preferable.

STEP 3: LOAD YOUR KNIFE
The next step is to load the knife with more broad strokes to give an impression of thick leaves like background. Make your front look in multiple layers from cool to warm and light to dark to create a variety and depth in painting and present it like an original look. 

STEP 4: PAINTING THE FLOWERS
Now the main step is painting the flowers on the tree using the knife. The knife type straight edge and round shape should be used. If you have some other options of knife use them to create the natural effect. Pull and push the paint to create the form of flowers with the texture also. The focus is to create a flower like texture using the knife not to make the flower exactly like you see.

STEP 5: WORK ON CANVAS SIDES
The work should be done equally on the sides of the canvas so that it will not look odd one out. You can paint the sides of canvas white, black or any matching color to your painting. It would be great if you extend the painting to the sides of canvas so that it will look symmetric on from all the sides. That would be the best solution.  

STEP 6: USE VARNISH
The last and final step to do after several weeks when painting becomes completely dry. Apply professional high quality glossy varnish to your painting. The positive aspect of applying varnish to your painting is to protect your painting from dirt, dust and UV rays.

You can apply all the steps and will get an amazing masterpiece.