What is Marking in Expressionist Painting?
Painting is the art of using a pigmented medium to create a picture of reality filtered through the imagination, the senses, emotions and life experience. Artists the world over have multiplied the uses of painting as a vital mode of human expression, whether recording history, retelling myth and legend, expressing religious fervor or exploring the unknown. From early history to the present, it is recorded that humans strive to graphically represent their world. In this free video series on painting, an artist demonstrates how to use marking to paint an expressionist portrait. Discover how to tap into expressive potential and the difference between direct and indirect marking. Learn marking styles with different tools like the flat brush, round brush, palette knife and scraper. The artist discusses styles like impasto, flinging, pouring and dripping. Finally, learn wet-to-wet, blending and how to use turpentine, rags and wooden boards to modify a portrait. “Now in simple terms when you
