How to Add Texture When Oil Painting

Some artists have their own techniques on how to create texture and some artists use the same techniques that have been used for years. Texture is a technique used when painting that visually creates the effect of depth, feel and distance. There are many ways to create texture depending on the style of the artist and the objects being painted.

How to Add Texture When Oil Painting

• By using solvents to thin or thicken paint.




• Different types of painting media such as oils, charcoal and water colors.




• The shapes of brushes used to apply the paint such as flat, round and angular.




• The different types of brushes such as horse hair, camel and synthetic.




• By creating dark and light shadows.




• The type of surface the paint is painted on such as canvas, wood, metal and glass.




• Ala prima, a process of applying thick layers of paint.