I like using the Palette knife when doing the highlights and shading in the mountains I paint. It gives it that rocky texture when adding more details to it.
Wether you realized it or not, you taught me the difference is distance. The brush makes for a distant mountain... I like it. Thanks for the video Kevin.
@@michaelsullivan1262 If we talk about oil paints - you need to use toxic liquids to clean brushes. If you ok with it - it's great, but some people as me are too sensitive to chemicals and can't use them. So palette knife is an amazing solution :)
Lunar Ferns you can clean your brushes with baby oil or safflower oil works good to. Then I wash them in half and half water and Murphy’s oil soap. This is how I clean mine. No more toxic cleaners for me.
I gave up painting mountains with a palette knife a long time ago, I simply don't have the feel for it. Actually, I gave up painting mountains period, unless they're very distant with no detail. However you gave some good tips on using the brush that I hope to try at some point, thanks' Kevin.
Knife mountains look closer and sharper, brush mountains look more distant and diffuse. I guess the deciding factor is the look you're going for. Nice job!
I for sure agree with the thought process that the brush allows for a more distant looking mountain, and the knife typically has sharper edges and looks closer. So for me, that is what I would typically lean on when deciding between the two.
Both awesome mountains. I find that I enjoy making the mountains with the brush because its more intimate...like you said it's almost like you place every rock, snowpatch, glacier, sunlight patch and shadow. It's a bit more personal and fun. I will say though using the knife is usually faster and sometimes letting the scene fall out of the knife (less control) actually gets you a better result as nature is random after all! Thanks for sharing!
Your video's are my inspiration to want to paint and I found why I was struggling with the pallet knife mountains in this video, the paper towel. That was the answer. Thankyou so much.
I like the brush better. Like you mentioned there’s more control with it. I had an art teacher critiqued painting w a palette knife gives the painting a “frosting” effect
Given that you make everything look so easy, it's hard to say which is best in motion, the palette or brush. I like the palette mountain just a bit better. But they both have serious interest to them!!! Thank you, Kevin - always so entertaining!!
First I would just like to say, I know nothing about painting, but I do enjoy watching your videos. I couldn't tell you the difference between oil or acrylic paints. Having said that, to an untrained eye, I like the texture you get from the knife. I appears to jump off the canvas a little more than the brush. To me, it looks like learning to master the knife in painting would be a lot more difficult. I could be wrong as I have stated, I know nothing about painting. They are both beautiful, but the knife affect looks a little more realistic for me.
PL K I think it completely depends on the perspective of the artist. Personally I feel that nothing looks more realistic than a skilled artist using brushes. On the other hand, as a new painter with no formal training, I can’t use brushes. I find the blending very difficult and with the way my mind works I need to work with textures (impasto) and layering. I bet that artists that tend towards realism probably gravitate towards brushes and away from the palette knife and vise versa for abstract artists.
Kevin, I like the brush painting slightly better than the palette knife one. The reason behind is in the inherent flexibility of the brush over the knife. You can do a dozen or more textures - deep or light depending on how hardly or softly you press your knife against the canvas. But with a brush you can literally paint hundreds of different textures and effects!! You can also use a hard brush, a soft brush , a very thin brush etc to create a wide variety of effects and textures!! The left side mountain range is somewhere I would like to spend my next vacation on. The right side one I would like to see on a post card!!😊😊
Excellent tutorial! Thanks so much for the tip on too much paint on the mountain “block in”!! That’s been my biggest problem with the knife technique! (Maybe also with the brush!) Thanks also for the brush approach-gives an outstanding alternative!
Please do some more palatte knife landscapes. We just have two palatte knife landscapes in the whole list of your videos. This is a kind request. Love and blessings from India.
I know I'm against the consensus on this one, but I prefer the brush mountain. It looks more real to me. And I love the precision of the hints of snows. I wish my mountains looked like that!
Hi Kevin, I watched you and your inspiration motivated me to start back into painting, oils mostly with a acrylic mixed in. My channel tells more about me. Happy Painting!
Knife mountains are quick and effective to create, but the paint is quite thick making it harder to to paint trees and other details over the top without muddying it up. I think one should strive to learn with both brush and knife.
do you always start with the dark highlights, most of the instruction I've watched starts with the white, I'm struggling with the 3d look so I'm definitely going to try your method. thx
I don’t think any one technique is best. I enjoy a blend of all the amazing artists I follow and their styles. I’ll say knife mountains and cabins have been a lifelong struggle to paint with a knife, not to say a brush is easier for me.
I been painting for years but my art looks too cartoonish and I want to grow as an artist. I googled acrylic and it’s talking about gels and glazes what’s that
How do you brother, Kevin, I want to know after you buy the canvas. What is the first step to preparing the painting for drawing? Do you put a certain type of oil and what are you? Thank you artist, my greetings to your noble person🌹👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@sayednasr makeing colours more brilliant many artist varnish their work. It makes the paint more vivid looking, the painting needs to be fully dry at last 6 months. With gamvar you can varnish a painting as soon as it's touch dry. Pritty much most mediums bring out the colours, you just need to experiment with them. I'm learning things all the time that I didn't even know about and I've been doing this for a long time, you never stop learning that is what makes art so wonderful because it's endless.
I think both are great. However, I've found for myself, that even though the knife creates more detail and texture, that texture brings the mountains too far forward in a painting.
Bio …. Thanks, but I know that water color uses water, but I've seen some artists cover the canvas with a liquid of some kind before starting an oil painting. I assumed it was turps, but not sure.
I really like the paint brush mountain but really want to lern to use the knife until it's as easy to use as a brush. I wish school kids could've had the paint knifes instead of just brushes etc etc..
I like the brush rather than palette knife. Just because I haven’t learned to use the palette knife regularly. But palette knife is faster. I use Acrylic paints mostly, but am thinking about using oils with Acrylic for highlighting.
Thank you so much for your reply. Yes, Acrylic is water based and Oils are oil based of course. They wouldn’t mix. But I thought if the Acrylic was dry, might be able to use oils on top to highlight areas I’d like to look brighter. Acrylics go so much darker when dry it’s hard to get some things to shine out without using a few layers of Acrylic. I love the way Acrylic dries rapidly though and you can actually see your painting develop and take character whilst it dries. I’m an armature, very much still learning so probably not yet got the technique for highlighting.
No offence, but it's not mountains, it's SNOW covered mountains. In my country and many others mountains are green or purple or blue. P.S. I still gave it a thumbs up, ...up and away.
I like the craggy palette knife mountain. They just seem to have more interesting details
I like using the Palette knife when doing the highlights and shading in the mountains I paint. It gives it that rocky texture when adding more details to it.
Staggering the mountains like that really makes for nice shadows and visually pleasing.
I love the look pallet Knives give. I have beautiful Rooster done that way. It's so vibrant!
Watching you paint is magical!
Wether you realized it or not, you taught me the difference is distance. The brush makes for a distant mountain... I like it. Thanks for the video Kevin.
Excellent tutorial! Both mountains look great, but I prefer the palette knife version. It looks rockier. Nicer texture.
The ultimate deciding factor is that the knife is easier to clean.
Nels Krogh I don’t think cleaning brushes are much more work than making toast. JK🤣
@@michaelsullivan1262 If we talk about oil paints - you need to use toxic liquids to clean brushes. If you ok with it - it's great, but some people as me are too sensitive to chemicals and can't use them. So palette knife is an amazing solution :)
Lunar Ferns you can clean your brushes with baby oil or safflower oil works good to. Then I wash them in half and half water and Murphy’s oil soap. This is how I clean mine. No more toxic cleaners for me.
I gave up painting mountains with a palette knife a long time ago, I simply don't have the feel for it. Actually, I gave up painting mountains period, unless they're very distant with no detail. However you gave some good tips on using the brush that I hope to try at some point, thanks' Kevin.
PBS needs to give this man a show.
charvelgtrs he had one.
@@Domkizzle He did?
charvelgtrs google Kevin Hill PBS.
Knife mountains look closer and sharper, brush mountains look more distant and diffuse. I guess the deciding factor is the look you're going for. Nice job!
Using the knife has been so challenging for me
I for sure agree with the thought process that the brush allows for a more distant looking mountain, and the knife typically has sharper edges and looks closer. So for me, that is what I would typically lean on when deciding between the two.
Love using the palette knife for mountains!! Great comparison!!!
Both awesome mountains. I find that I enjoy making the mountains with the brush because its more intimate...like you said it's almost like you place every rock, snowpatch, glacier, sunlight patch and shadow. It's a bit more personal and fun. I will say though using the knife is usually faster and sometimes letting the scene fall out of the knife (less control) actually gets you a better result as nature is random after all! Thanks for sharing!
I like the brush painting, looks nice and smooth.
I like both, but I love the palette knife technique. Thanks for sharing.
With knife..mountains r looking like hard and so beautiful realistic. Wonderful work kevin sir. I like it very much
Your video's are my inspiration to want to paint and I found why I was struggling with the pallet knife mountains in this video, the paper towel. That was the answer. Thankyou so much.
thank you Kevin for doing this video. I see the differences in both. they're both beautiful! thank you for everything! you are truly amazing!
I like the brush better. Like you mentioned there’s more control with it. I had an art teacher critiqued painting w a palette knife gives the painting a “frosting” effect
Given that you make everything look so easy, it's hard to say which is best in motion, the palette or brush. I like the palette mountain just a bit better. But they both have serious interest to them!!! Thank you, Kevin - always so entertaining!!
I cannot decided because I love them both :) because you made them both beautiful in their own way ;)
I am allways for brush. great video. big like from QuickArt channel
great channel
Beautiful
Loved this video Kevin ,I can't make a choice, they both have there own beauty
Great video!!! I agree with you, it depends on how much texture you want in your painting because both ways make an awesome mountain!!
First I would just like to say, I know nothing about painting, but I do enjoy watching your videos. I couldn't tell you the difference between oil or acrylic paints. Having said that, to an untrained eye, I like the texture you get from the knife. I appears to jump off the canvas a little more than the brush. To me, it looks like learning to master the knife in painting would be a lot more difficult. I could be wrong as I have stated, I know nothing about painting. They are both beautiful, but the knife affect looks a little more realistic for me.
PL.K …
I would say that you have a good eye for art.
PL K I think it completely depends on the perspective of the artist. Personally I feel that nothing looks more realistic than a skilled artist using brushes. On the other hand, as a new painter with no formal training, I can’t use brushes. I find the blending very difficult and with the way my mind works I need to work with textures (impasto) and layering. I bet that artists that tend towards realism probably gravitate towards brushes and away from the palette knife and vise versa for abstract artists.
It’s amazing really, what you can do with both. Just a few strokes and your brain sees a mountain on a flat surface which you eyes want to look into.
i love the knife painting so easy and fun
Wonderful video! I find that it depends on the mood I am trying to convey whether I use brush or knife! Thank you, Kevin...
Forgot to say, the palette knife is brilliant!
Kevin, I like the brush painting slightly better than the palette knife one. The reason behind is in the inherent flexibility of the brush over the knife. You can do a dozen or more textures - deep or light depending on how hardly or softly you press your knife against the canvas.
But with a brush you can literally paint hundreds of different textures and effects!! You can also use a hard brush, a soft brush , a very thin brush etc to create a wide variety of effects and textures!! The left side mountain range is somewhere I would like to spend my next vacation on. The right side one I would like to see on a post card!!😊😊
Thank you. I'm horrible with the knife and have been looking for a good paint brush mountain.
Beautiful mountains kevin. I just start using brush for mountain .gives a different feeling in the Painting but I like both
Pallet knife gives better detailed texture every time. Love it.
I like painting mountains with a brush because the brush allows you to blend the snow as it disappears into the mist.
Excellent tutorial! Thanks so much for the tip on too much paint on the mountain “block in”!! That’s been my biggest problem with the knife technique! (Maybe also with the brush!) Thanks also for the brush approach-gives an outstanding alternative!
Please teach me the technique to make the double background just like you did at the start of the video. lol Thanks Kev.
both mountains are amazing....
👍 Danke für das wunderschöne Video..👨🎨🎨😘👍
I love both I have been on the brush more lately though
Thanks, Kevin! Very helpful!
Amazing work my friend, we can learn al lot from you...👏😊👍
Awesome~ Amazing painting~
I'm watching your video with interest
👍👍👍💕💕💕
Please do some more palatte knife landscapes. We just have two palatte knife landscapes in the whole list of your videos. This is a kind request. Love and blessings from India.
I know I'm against the consensus on this one, but I prefer the brush mountain. It looks more real to me. And I love the precision of the hints of snows. I wish my mountains looked like that!
Both look great, just different techniques and also i think it is funnier to paint with knife!
Very good, plase Kevin, more ocean lesson, tanks!
Hi Kevin, I watched you and your inspiration motivated me to start back into painting, oils mostly with a acrylic mixed in. My channel tells more about me. Happy Painting!
its interesting to see the difference. you could use the knife at first then detail with brushes after.
Pallete knife has better mountains 👍🏻❤️🙋🏻♀️
I like the brush 🖌️ mountains.
Knife mountains are quick and effective to create, but the paint is quite thick making it harder to to paint trees and other details over the top without muddying it up. I think one should strive to learn with both brush and knife.
Would a hybrid of a knife and brush work? Or is that stupid?
Mr Kelvin i like your painting very much
But at the same time
I want to know how to use brushes and knife (strokes)
Will you tell me?????
do you always start with the dark highlights, most of the instruction I've watched starts with the white, I'm struggling with the 3d look so I'm definitely going to try your method. thx
The blending brush is it wet or dry
I don’t think any one technique is best. I enjoy a blend of all the amazing artists I follow and their styles. I’ll say knife mountains and cabins have been a lifelong struggle to paint with a knife, not to say a brush is easier for me.
What if you did the palette knife mountain then took a detail brush over it?
I admire him a lot and I want to learn more about painting and please translate me into Romanian
That’s amazing
I been painting for years but my art looks too cartoonish and I want to grow as an artist. I googled acrylic and it’s talking about gels and glazes what’s that
Each as we all know have specific roles....especially knives. We can't use knife in small curvy areas of the subject or small people in a beach
What brushes do you use please?
wonderful my dear
Nice painting~:)
How do you brother, Kevin, I want to know after you buy the canvas. What is the first step to preparing the painting for drawing? Do you put a certain type of oil and what are you? Thank you artist, my greetings to your noble person🌹👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Some people put a layer or two of guesso to add texture or sand it down with sandpaper to give a smooth service.
Bio-plasmic Toad Thank you very much and well done👏🏻🌹
Bio-plasmic Toad But what is the oil medium used to soften the color and how do I make the colors brilliant and thank you for your help
@@sayednasr makeing colours more brilliant many artist varnish their work. It makes the paint more vivid looking, the painting needs to be fully dry at last 6 months. With gamvar you can varnish a painting as soon as it's touch dry. Pritty much most mediums bring out the colours, you just need to experiment with them. I'm learning things all the time that I didn't even know about and I've been doing this for a long time, you never stop learning that is what makes art so wonderful because it's endless.
I think both are great. However, I've found for myself, that even though the knife creates more detail and texture, that texture brings the mountains too far forward in a painting.
Do it with both the knife and brushes, the best of both worlds maybe? Just a thought,
Thank you Kevin👍I love your paintings.
I just have a question, do you prime your canvas with gesso? Greetings from Germany😊
@@anaygupta3512 thanks 😊
I find the palette knife painting gives the mountain more expression even though it is a touch harder to control.
Kevin, before you put brush to canvas, do you wet the canvas with
anything?
I know you didn't ask me it's more for watercolours but I suppose you could put some thinner on the canvas beforehand to help with blending.
Bio ….
Thanks, but I know that water color uses water, but I've seen
some artists cover the canvas with a liquid of some kind before
starting an oil painting. I assumed it was turps, but not sure.
@@luigi5890 you are probably correct.
Somthing that could probably help promote your channel would be to start doing community posts on your channel.
Were you buy oil paint from?
I really like the paint brush mountain but really want to lern to use the knife until it's as easy to use as a brush. I wish school kids could've had the paint knifes instead of just brushes etc etc..
the joy for knife
Oh,beautiful.
Have you ever done portraits Kevin?
Carole Brignell he did one of his son as an infant it came out good. I believe it is still on his channel
Skill Palette knife good detail 👍👍👍
Really great👌
How do you clean your brushes?
Wow Kevin
I like the brush rather than palette knife. Just because I haven’t learned to use the palette knife regularly. But palette knife is faster. I use Acrylic paints mostly, but am thinking about using oils with Acrylic for highlighting.
Catherine Greenup I wouldn’t recommend using oils and acrylic in one painting, unless you let the oils dry.
Thank you so much for your reply. Yes, Acrylic is water based and Oils are oil based of course. They wouldn’t mix. But I thought if the Acrylic was dry, might be able to use oils on top to highlight areas I’d like to look brighter. Acrylics go so much darker when dry it’s hard to get some things to shine out without using a few layers of Acrylic. I love the way Acrylic dries rapidly though and you can actually see your painting develop and take character whilst it dries. I’m an armature, very much still learning so probably not yet got the technique for highlighting.
Nice love it
The knife has it's advantages, however, the brush is the detail king and wins this matchup!
Brushes gives you kinda further effect I think
Wow, you are amazing.~ ^^
Less control as Kevin said is the key word for knife
Estou nessa!!!!!
Good
Both are beautiful but the knife mountain looks more sharpness and crispy...
Both are good
but use of knife is very clearly than brush
Kevin, incridlebe!
Paletknife looks easer for me. 😊
No offence, but it's not mountains, it's SNOW covered mountains. In my country and many others mountains are green or purple or blue. P.S. I still gave it a thumbs up, ...up and away.
The Palette Knife Mountain Painting is DEFINITELY better than the Brush Mountain Painting.
I think it's the brush. Because you can paint into more details.
As you said you can control.
I think palette knife is better then brush
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I vote brushes!
Knife mountain 100%