A palette cutlass can make a scores of distemper textures.
Picture with a palette knife provides a entire clashing sphere of texture to the painter. The palette dirk can be used to add little marks of colour, to chop terminated top layer of dye and betray the colour underneath, or to add a textured surface. Ruffles fall into the textured surface category. They can be created by either a brush or a palette knife, however, the knife creates a ruffle with true depth to it. Think of sewn ruffles. They appear thicker at the base and thinner at the top, the same is true for painting. There is more paint at the base, and less at the top.
Instructions
1. Set up canvas and choose paint colors. Holding the knife at an angle, make a curved sweeping motion on the canvas. If there is enough paint on the knife, do it again, right next to the first ruffle.3. Repeat the above process until comfortable with the technique.
While only one paint color is truly necessary, it is good to try painting ruffles in a few colors, as they will all look different. This is especially true if the ruffle technique is used to blend two or more colors together.2. Load the underside of the palette knife with a bit of paint.
Thicker paints respond better to knife work, in either oil or acrylic mediums. If there is a thicker area of paint on the canvas that needs to be blended in to surrounding color, try ruffling it into the other colors. Using pressure on the angle of the knife is the key here. The sharper the edge of the angle, the thinner the ruffle. Use a wider angle if a more textured, thicker ruffle is desired.
