Creating Impastos in Oil Painting

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The simplest way to create an impasto surface is to apply paint in large amounts, usually with either a brush or a palette knife. Commercial oil colors have a heavy consistency, so this can be achieved by working directly from the tube and applying the colors in thick layers. Opacity and built-up texture are usually interrelated, with much of the thickest impasto consisting of solid and opaque pigments, such as lead white or titanium white. Passages of thickly applied paint can also be translucent, so extender pigments are chosen that supply both bulk and transparency.
As technical director of Natural Pigments, I spent many hours examining the impastos of such old masters as Rembrandt and Velázquez to understand the variety of textures they employed in their paintings. The advantage they have over artists today is that they handmade their paint, so they can arrive at an endless variety of effects by tailoring the ingredients in the paint to provide the proper consistency. Not allowing this to become a disadvantage today, I sought to develop oil paint that not only has a wide range of behavior but also painting amendments that artists today can use to change this behavior. For impastos, Rublev Colours offers three paste and putty mediums: Velázquez Medium, Impasto Medium, and Impasto Putty.
Available at local art supply retailers and online at ss1.us/a/H241HNOL
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00:00 Introduction
00:35 Making Impastos with Impasto Mediums
00:54 How to Make Impasto Mediums
02:16 Three Different Impasto Mediums
02:56 Impasto Putty
03:56 Impasto Medium
04:49 Velazquez Medium

[@Gianrainbow]

Thank you for sharing informative video. Where can I buy impasto medium? Thanks

[@RublevColours]

Tejal Shah it is available online through the Natural Pigments online store: htttp://www.naturalpigments.com

[@vaishnavipe8864]

The impasto putty is very interesting and I wanted to try it out. But your website shows me only the other 2 mediums available. How do I buy the impasto putty?

[@RublevColours]

Vaishnavi PE it is available online through the Natural Pigments online store: htttp://www.naturalpigments.com

[@purinpat]

Thank you for the comparisons. Would these medium work with Holbein duo (water soluble oil paint)?

[@RublevColours]

These mediums will work with Holbein Duo (water soluble oil paint), but the more of these mediums you add to the paint, the less water soluble the paint becomes.

[@RobertHolmAnimator]

This must take forever to dry.

[@RublevColours]

Robert Holm, it depends on the amount of paste medium added to your paint. Paste mediums such as these have a high pigment volume concentration (PVC) and hence are considered to be "lean" so they dry considerably faster than expected. Of course, it is best not apply overly thick layers of oil paint.