I stayed home from my day job on Friday and had a few hours on my hands so I painted a 20 x 30 oil painting which is pretty much what I do. What makes it unusual is that I sat down to paint with a couple of brushes and began the under-drawing with a brush and when I started to mix up a tone with my palette knife something told me to put the paint on with the knife. I did not touch a brush till I signed the painting. Those of you who have seen my work for several years know that many of my plein air works are knife paintings. However it has been almost a year since I painted solely with a knife.

Knife painting allows me a textural or tactile quality that I rarely find with a brush.

As I have stated before,  I was awe struck with the powerful beauty of the Caribbean Sea pounding the east shore of Cozumel, Mexico. I can’t help but try and capture it. This knife painting gave me something….. now I need to build on it.

I have not forsaken my Moab and Arches work in fact I feel that the same energy I get from the palette knife in the beach painting may help me in the Arches.

Enjoy the video its in HD! ( Thanks to Daniel) Watch my Ebay store for smaller plein air works and a couple of mid sized works. Contact me if you are interested in any work on this site.

2 Responses to “Cozumel Palette Knife painting”

1. Dolly says:

   March 10, 2010 at 9:35 am

   Hola,
   No estб seguro de que esto es verdad:), pero gracias a un cargo.

   Dolly
2. Stephen Bartholomew » Gone Fishing – Provo River – palette knife oil painting says:

   August 10, 2010 at 7:14 pm

   [...] bouncing off the shallow stream contrasting against the shadowed foliage. I am still enjoying the palette knife. The way it deposits the color on the canvas seems good. I am painting another view from the old [...]