Meet Arizona’s Self-Taught Impressionist Palette Knife Oil Painter

Artist Tessa Nicole

Her painting style, techniques and materials

Self-taught artist, Tessa Nicole, began painting for the first time in 2015. While it ﬁrst began as a “new hobby”, she has tirelessly worked her way up to creating full-time and selling her work all around the world working solely with palette knife since January of 2017.

Tessa was always artistic growing up, but strictly in the musical sense of the definition. Singer, songwriter, classical pianist; these were her titles up until age 17 & music was the chosen career path since age 8.

Never would have she guessed that one day, her passion for music would morph into a passion for visual arts. February of 2015, She recorded her song “Painted Life”, knowing a music video was going to follow.

Her vibrant color schemes and dramatic texture add a new life to every space and keep collectors smiling all day long.

Artist TESSA NICOLE, Large Painting w/ Palette Knife & Oil Paints

Tessa officially coined her original style Textured Pointillism

Beginning with oils & self-taught from the very beginning, Tessa has remained 100% original in all of their techniques, applications, & styles. In July of 2020, Tessa officially coined their original style – Textured Pointillism

Using solely palette knives, Artist Tessa Nicole creates lively and textured oil paintings that capture the eye and ﬁll any space with light.

“The part of the story that I have yet to share with anyone, up until very recently, is the background of how Art has genuinely saved my life. Without the influence & outlet of music & painting, I would not be standing where I am today.”

Self-taught artist, Tessa Nicole with Oil Painting

The young artist’s impressionistic style is inspired by her two favorite artists: Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh.

With the free-ﬂowing expression of Monet, and the texturized “touchability” of Van Gogh, Tessa’s goal in creating any painting is to open the eyes to a bright and talkative movement.

Tessa Nicole’s specialty is working one-on-one with her collectors to create unique and personal works of art.

From a photo of somewhere that is special to you & your signiﬁcant other, to a ﬂower that reminds you of your mother, Tessa will create an original oil painting that speak speciﬁcally to you!

Artwork example in oils using soho artist oil paints

“Quality of product is very important to me when creating art using oil paints”

“Quality of product is very important to me when creating a piece in oil paints. Jerry’s Artarama makes it easy for me to find better quality oil paints I need to make something stand out. For extra large pieces, I use Soho oil paints. Not only do they fit a “starving artist” budget, they also provide vibrant color and smooth-flowing texture!
For smaller scale pieces, my go-to is Charvin oil paints. Their wide range of color makes for incredible oil painting detail and the texture is like the perfect icing on a cake.”