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Hi, welcome back to Art with Andy
I'm Andy Morris and today we're going to be talking about texture
and different ways you can get that in your paintings
one way you can get texture in your paintings is
by using collage elements like Rice Papers
that have a lot of fibers in them
Another way is to use Zerox Copies of
materials that have fibers in them
on this particular piece of paper I also added some colored pencil work
so this can go into a painting
Another way is you can use stencils
Now this isn't sold as a stencil
it's some decorative element you find in places like Home Depot and other hardware stores
but I'm going to use it today, and I'm going to spray some Ink that's just thinned out a little bit
I have it in a little spray bottle. You find these spray bottles at Beauty Supply Stores
so when we put this pattern up here
and then spray into it
we get a textured pattern on the canvas
Another way you can get texture in your paintings
is by scraping paint across the canvas and letting the paint break
So I got some paints that I just put on here, I put quite a bit on there
and then as you can see as I drag this across
that's creating texture
Another way you can get texture is with Combs and Tools like these
These are actual Combs and you pick them up at Dollar Store for about a dollar
and they make some interesting marks
when you have wet paint on there particularly thru thick paint
and sometimes if the paint's thick enough you can get them to continue the marks on down
Now another way to get texture
when you have some fairly thin paint, if you have thick paint this doesn't work
when you have some fairly thin paint. See actually that needs to be wetter
Always keep a spray bottle full of water handy
always keep some paper towels handy. These are tools you are going to use constantly
O.K. so I got my paint up there
I believe it's wet enough
and I just take a piece of Plastic Wrap
and I lay that into my painting
now you probably won't be able to tell right now
but the plastic wrap is going to create some random marks and lines
as the paint dries underneath there
you'd leave this on there until it's dry
Another way to do it though and get some texture also is to take some plastic wrap
put it into wet paint
pick up that wet paint and then move it to another part of the canvas
so you're kind of using the plastic wrap as a stamp
you can do that a few times
each time it's going to make less of a mark than the time before
yet another way that you can get
let me find my Foam Brush
now there probably aren't too many of you that don't know about this yet but
I'm going to show it to you anyway because we got some beginners out there
This is Bubble Wrap, this happens to be Small Bubble Wrap
and you can just paint some thinned out paint, again thick paint doesn't work as well
with these techniques
put some thinned out paint on it. I'm not getting very much paint
and then you just stamp it on to your canvas or paper
like that
I don't use Bubble Wrap too often in my work just because
Everybody knows about it
and I want my paintings to be unique
but it does work to provide texture
there are lots of other ways you can create texture and I'll be showing you more of those in later videos
I hope you enjoyed this one, until next time Happy Painting!