"Palette Knife Painting" workshop with Rob Shaw

Please direct any questions to our workshop coordinator, Carol Blackwood, at carolblackwood@yahoo.com or 803-603-8634.

Workshop Description (from the instructor)

 In this workshop, you will learn to use a palette knife to create an entire painting and to create effects and techniques that you wouldn’t be able to do with a brush.  You might know the palette knife as a tool for mixing paint on a palette, but it can do so much more than that! In fact, you can use a palette knife to create effects and use techniques that you wouldn’t be able to do with a brush. Some contemporary artists like me favor the palette knife so much that we often don’t use brushes anymore. Both oil and acrylic paint can be used for palette knife painting, though I personally prefer using oil on canvas.

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One of the best things about this style of painting is the…