By McKenzie Graham It’s easy to imagine the looming shadows cast by a combine harvester abandoned to nature’s persistent forces and the gradual blooming of orange rust on the metal. What requires an artist’s eye of observation, though, are the tiny sha…
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By Michael Chesley Johnson When he’s feeling stuck creatively, watercolor artist Randall David Tipton—known for his award-winning abstract landscapes—finds himself turning to another medium: collage. “I have an evolving relationship with the medium,” t…
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By Michael Chesley Johnson For award-winning watercolorist Rick Anderson, the broad plains of the Mississippi Delta provide an opportunity for his brush to roam free, dashing out passages of gold and green with a rhythm that energizes the land’s flatne…
Dabbing is an incredibly versatile painting technique that most artists utilise, from applying tiny areas of rough texture to decisively dabbing entire paintings. In this article, I define the technique by looking at key examples from art history – from the Dutch Golden Age, the Japanese mid-Edo period, to Les Nabis in Paris. Then I demonstrate how to apply dabbing to your own works, in oil, acrylic, ink and watercolour paints. Articles in the Techniques Series define the meaning and context of art making processes and give practical tutorials on how to work with them. The Dabbing Technique for Painting Definition: Dabbing refers to the application of paint or ink to a surface using a repetitive vertical hand motion. The media is bounced, pressed or touched onto the surface without linear movement or hand gesture, giving a diffused effect. Dabbing may be achieved with brushes, rags, or palette knives. What is the Effect of Dabbing? Paintings made with dabbing may have a diffused quality, where the artist has intentionally foregone linear or painted mark-making. It’s perfect for applying the texture of naturalistic elements like clouds and foliage, building up patterns, and for realising subtle tonal effects like …
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