This unit focuses on showing you how artists use brushwork to describe their subject matter – the critical factor in developing interesting brushwork and in improving the abstract quality of their paintings. You will learn:

• how artists improve the three-dimensional quality of their paintings using directional brushstrokes
• how they create and simulate texture
• how they convey the impression of movement
• how and why brushwork establishes the emotional mood of a painting
• how they use brushwork to communicate perspective in painting