He paints with a palette knife, not a brush, which he uses to both apply and remove paint from the surface of a smooth canvas support. (minusspace.com)
But walking through this retrospective, I was entirely convinced by these familiar works with their sequinned outlines of figures and bead - effect dots marking out subjects, densely patterned designs on canvases supported by shiny round elephant turds. (theartsdesk.com)
The equation of paint and food is satirized in Stubbs» costive canvases, like wedding cakes, with one canvas supported by the rosettes of the one below. (michaelstubbs.org)