Learn these acrylic and oil painting techniques and watch your paintings come to life. On the next few pages you will learn how acrylic and oil painting techniques such as drag, impasto, lifting out, palette knife, scrape, scratch, scumble, slash, smear, soft blend, spatter, sponge, stamp and lift, and stippling can help your paintings incorporate textures that will simulate clouds, grass, rocks, skies and more very realistically!