hello I'm Jaclyn laflam I'm a professional artist with Jaclyn lam.com in this clip I'm going to give you some tips on how to use a pallet knife with acrylic paint you will need a canvas you will need acrylic paint you will need a pallet knife we're going to start off we're going to dip the pallet knife into the paints and get a nice you want to get a nice healthy amount of paint on it and I'm going to flip it upside down just to get it onto the canvas then you're gonna want to use the back side of the knife and just start smoothing it out it's almost like icing a cake so you can use your pallet knife to make a nice kind of smooth effect going to change colors here and do another dip again just like this you're going to want to put it onto the canvas we have a little bit of the other color mixed in which makes it nice so in this one here we're going to smooth it out but we're also going to start creating different effects so you see now that we have the two colors on the pet knife I'm just going to drag the palet knife and you see how you're getting the little swirlies of color mixed in and I'm just going to pull it up here to create you can almost create it almost looks like a flower but you can actually use this knife to sculpt the paint just like that I'm going to go back and I'm just going to grab some blue paint paint here again get it onto the canvas and in this one here I'm going to start just patting the paint see how I'm pulling the knife up and it's creating these little Peaks so that you get all these different types of effects and textures what I recommend if you're just starting out with a palet knife is just to try to play and just take some scraps and see you can scrape into the paint and scrape rpe some of the paint off and you just want to try different things and I really recommend just being free and playing you can just work that paint into the canvas you see how it's thin here and you could leave it a little thicker there so just have fun with it this is Jaclyn laflam thank you for watching
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