Impasto Painting

Today I have to answer some questions about impasto painting. Over the past few weeks, our art class has been doing impasto painting. Impasto painting is one of the easiest painting techniques you can do. You can easily express your emotions, make abstract and can do many more things with impasto. Impasto means a painting using a palette knife, a thick paintbrush to apply thick strokes of paint onto your canvas, but it mainly means painting with a thick layer of paint. You can express emotions by doing impasto painting you can do this by using warm and cool colours or by painting what makes you happy or sad. Van Gough was one of the first people to use the impasto painting technique because he did use a thick paintbrush or a palette knife but he used his fingers to create the starry night.