Recipes for Painting Textures teaches the reader how to incorporate relief effects in a painting to give it personality, make it more expressive and make it stand out from the rest. This book outlines the principal ways of forming the surface of the painting with textures and some of their variants: with the use of fabrics and rumpled paper, by adding loads, giving a greater volume with gels and other media, and by using modeling pastes.
10 practical exercises done with oil and acrylic are provided so that these ideas can be better understood, showing the four most frequent ways of creating texture. With all this the artist is invited to become a "virtuoso", which in painterly slang is someone who demonstrates a strong desire to experiment with substances and materials that can enrich and add graphic interest to the work.