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Oil Paint is most suitable to this technique, due to its thickness and slow drying time. The latter can even be extended with additional linseed oil. Acrylic Paint can also be impastoed, though the technique is rarely used because of the faster drying time of this material. Impasto is generally not possible in Watercolour or Tempera without the addition of thickening media such as Aquapasto™, due to the inherent thinness of these media. Impastoed paint serves two purposes. Firstly, it makes the light using it frequently for aesthetics and expression. Still more recently, Frank Auerbach has used such heavy impasto that some of his paintings become almost three-dimensional. Because impasto gives texture to the painting, it can be opposed to flat, smooth, or blending techniques. |
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