Sentences with phrase «humbrol enamel paint»

His work is painted entirely with Humbrol enamel paint normally used by model plane makers and focuses on images of the mundane, the everyday and the overlooked in the Tile Hill council estate.

He depicts the Coventry housing estate where he grew up and uses Humbrol enamel paint, the type used to decorate model planes in Airfix kits, as another reminder of his childhood.

Shaw's paintings depict the area around his childhood home and are rendered exclusively in Humbrol enamel paint.

What is particularly interesting about his approach is his choice of Humbrol enamel paint, typically used to colour model trains and aeroplanes.

Shaw's landscape paintings, rendered entirely in Humbrol enamel paint — which is normally used to decorate model aeroplanes — depict the postwar Coventry housing estate where he grew up.

He paints on wooden board and uses fine point brushes and his pictures have a distinctive glossy sheen because he uses Humbrol enamel paints, which are usually associated with hobby craft and model making.

In some ways his paintings appear photorealistic, but his palette is restricted by the Humbrol enamel paints he uses — materials usually more associated with hobbyist model - makers than with the Turner prize shortlist.

The later works are a Peter Doig snow scene from 2001 - 02; Whiteread's maquette for her Trafalgar Square commission in 2001 which was a resin cast of the plinth itself; the Hurvin Anderson oil painting Maracus 111 from 2004; a Conrad Shawcross maquette for his large - scale work Continuum, a three - metre - high sculpture commissioned by the National Maritime Museum; and George Shaw's Ash Wednesday, 8.30 am from 2004 - 05, one of a number of Humbrol enamel paintings the artist has made over the years of the Coventry housing estate where he grew up.

His favoured medium is Humbrol Enamel Paints a medium usually known for model painting.

Not exact matches

The paintings are painted with a very fine brush using Humbrol Enamel - the paint used for Airfix models - which gives them a hard, high - gloss finish.

Painted in Humbrol enamels, more usually associated with boyhood model - making, and based on photographs, Shaw's works revisit landmarks remembered from his youth.

It features artists including Julian Opie and George Shaw — Turner prize nominated in 2011 for his bleak views of Coventry painted in Humbrol model airplane enamels — who is displaying for the first time a huge ink drawing inspired by a 2006 Tate exhibition of Constable's «six - footer» landscapes.

George Shaw's The Sly and Unseen Day show is painted in Humbrol enamel, and depicts locations near his childhood home in Coventry

First, his paintings exclusively depict the landscape of a half - mile radius around his childhood home on the Tile Hill estate in Coventry, second, he paints only in Humbrol enamel, the type of paint used by hobbyists to paint model aeroplanes.

Using Humbrol enamels, Shaw began creating his paintings in a fit of nostalgia after he had left home and moved away.

Shaw paints exclusively using Humbrol enamel, more traditionally used by young model makers.