Impasto and paint mixing in the manner of the Old Masters

Filmed in quarantine from his studio in Florence in May 2020, join artist Tom Richards as he mixes lead white paint using a muller and palette knife, binding pigment and oil together. It is this stretchy quality of paint that artists such as Titian, Rembrandt, and Velázquez exploited, using impasto to give a three-dimensional quality to their works. Tom also highlights the variety of textures utilized by van Dyck in his remarkable ‘Portrait of Cornelis van der Geest’, c. 1620, National Gallery. #colnaghifoundation