Impasto technique

The impasto technique is where you use paint and layer it up so you have thick paint on your page which leaves visible brush or palette knife marks. I was given a picture by nanda palmieri who painted swiss rolls in the impasto style. We first started with the base colours them moved onto working into the image with colours that are more like the ones used in the picture using quick and free moving brush strokes as to not make the painting look 'tidy'