Not exact matches
You can see around this apple that I started fairly pale and for the darker patches to the left I was using the technique the encountered at the beginning of working undiluted
paint into the surface with a
turps soaked brush.
Fill two egg - cup sized containers a third of the way with
turps (or white spirit) add a pea of alizarin crimson to one and a pea of violet to the other and dissolve the
paint fully (preferably with a different brush to the one you will be using).
This will be after taking in Robins sculpture, and Gary Wraggs
paintings in Deal.Great that there are two shows of British Abstract
Painting and Sculpture on at the moment.With Bill Tucker at Pangolin and Sams cracking show of 60s colour in Liverpool, Abstraction is far from a dead issue.Indeed there is a symposium by Matthew Macauley at a northern university [to be confirmed] coming up, with requests for papers.Two very good painters rang me to say go and see the Picasso show at Tate Modern, which I did.It was stunning and there were probably eight or so masterpieces in one room from one year!Tony and Sheila Caros show in Peterborough and Graham Boyd at the Cut, Frank Bowling in Dublin and Scully in Newcastle, Mali Morris at Women can't Paint at
Turps Banana, loads to see, enjoy, think about and stimulate new work.I hope there are all those hungry [artistically] young Abstract Painters and Sculptors out there keen to extend the genre.!
The editorial creates a frame for viewing
Turps Twelve as being about the relationship between
painting and learning.
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In September 2012,
Turps Banana, the
painting magazine written exclusively by painters, will open the doors of its new art school based in Bermondsey.
Check out this post at Abstraction Blog with some good photos of three new Scully
paintings at his current show at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, and a link to itunes where you can download
Turps Banana.
In conjunction with the show, we are delighted to announce the publication of a book of Nigel Cooke's writings, Words, which includes an edit of his PhD Thesis, The Ambivalence of the Undead, or the Nature of
Painting's Essence, as well as a selection of shorter works originally published in Tate Etc., Art Review,
Turps Banana, Transmission Annual — Hospitality, and in a publication on Ansel Krut.
Harvey is the co-founder of the
Turps Banana art school, gallery and magazine, which is devoted to
painting.
Harvey is the co-founder of the «
Turps Banana», a magazine devoted to
painting and written by painters (www.turpsbanana.com).
He's great on wet
paint, especially in his descriptions of Albert Oehlen's brushwork --» grids of dots, and passages of fluid, slashing brush marks «bundled» like kindling... veils, which are often made from dirty
turps and some interesting, jewelescent earth tones, give the
paintings the feeling of being seen from inside a sock.»
Do you just mix the oil
paints with
turps?
A limited edition silkscreen print of the Keith Coventry
painting Aylesbury Estate will be produced by Shapero Modern, who will donate ten per cent of the retail value to the
Turps Art School.
In a recent interview with John Hoyland (
Turps Banana, Issue 8) I think he said that he had never seen a bad
painting by Richard Diebenkorn.
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