He was famed for his bold, dramatic brush strokes which expressed emotion and added a feeling of movement to his works. Van Gogh’s Painting Technique: Impasto December 17, 2012 March 18, 2017 Sonya 4 Comments on Van Gogh’s Painting Technique: Impasto 29405 views Impasto is a painting term that refers to the use of thickly textured, undiluted, paint that appears almost three-dimensional on the canvas. Vincent van Gogh was a unique artist who worked with a sense of urgency which often caused him a great deal of stress. Van Gogh used for a painting only some tubes. Van gogh discovers in Paris the stippling technique of Neoimpressionism, also called Pointillism, and freely experiments with the style. I hope “Portraits Van Gogh Style” can inspire you to do the same.” ~Dena Peterson How to Paint Like Van Gogh, Step by Step Above, Reference photo: Vincent Van Gogh, “Olive Orchard with Mountains and Disk of the Sun,” 1889, oil on canvas, 29 x 36.5 in., The Minneapolis Institute of … Never all. It´s thought that he often used paint straight from the tube (impasto) and in the 70 days leading up to his death, he averaged one painting per day. "What is required in art nowadays," he writes, "is something very much alive, very strong in color, very much intensified."