The beauty of chalk paint is that you don't have to worry
about brush strokes.
This is a quick little post & video
about brush strokes.
Matt, I really learned alot
about brush strokes, and how you add color.
The paintings are colorful and deep, where subtle decisions
about brush stroke order and thickness of paint are used to pull faces out of landscapes and make psysiognomies into hills and valleys and cliffs.
Not exact matches
I hear what you say
about jokes being a «broad
stroke of the
brush».
We have broad -
brush strokes about Pluto and its siblings.
I was a bit worried
about leaving
brush strokes with the yacht varnish, so that's why i was wondering
about a spray finish.
They are very fearful
about being touched and shy away from being petted
stroked or
brushed.
If you've heard the phrase, «the confidence of the
brush -
stroke» this is what it's all
about.
Hunter writes: «In the show, twelve recent, mostly large - scale, conventionally stretched works share fast - looking
brush strokes; few visible layers of oil or acrylic; a graphic, flat appearance that emphasizes surface; and the impression — confirmed in the curatorial statement — that these paintings did not take long to make... The works in the exhibition raise the question, for me, of what it is that we value
about painting right now — where we locate meaning and value in paintings made quickly.»
As I teach, judge, visit exhibitions and look at work in books or across social media, I see bits and pieces of paintings that cause me to think
about how a particular effect or even a type of
brush stroke could impact my own work.
Visions: Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings, exhibition catalog, Naples Museum of Art, Arkansas Art Center (2007) NYArts, «Ink Scissors Paper,» by Pamela A. Popeson (July 17, 2007) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 19, No. 6, cover image (June, 2007) Iowa City Press - Citizen «Old Card Catalog Gets Art Makeover» by Rob Daniel (April 2, 2006) Virtual Comunidad 2005 / Now: Here: This, exhibition catalog published by Artists Unite (December 2005) Manhattan Times, «The Photography of Fleeting Moments,» by Mike Fitelson (February 2005) BLIR, Issue # 05 (September 2005) J.T. Kirkland's Thinking
About Art, «Artists Interview Artists», interview by Douglas Witmer (August 17, 2005) NY Arts, «Illuminated
Brush Strokes,» by Pamela A. Popeson (March / April 2004) NY Arts, «Sky Pape at June Kelly Gallery,» by Carl E. Hazlewood (November 2001) Artnet.com Magazine, Drawing Notebook, by N.F. Karlins (October, 2001) Cover, «Processing Natural Order, Sky Pape at June Kelly Gallery,» by Chloe Veltman (September, 1999) Review Magazine, «Sky Pape, Inklings: Drawings at June Kelly Gallery,» by Mark Daniel Cohen, pp 8 - 10 (June, 1999) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 11, No. 4, cover image (1999) ARTnews Vol.97, No. 1 «Peer Reviews: The Best of 1997» by Paul Gardner, pp 89 - 95 (1998) The Café Review, Spring issue.
About the tussles of form and meaning, Masamvu says, «each layer of paint, or
brush strokes, on the canvas proposes a search to resolve conflicted experiences or decisions.»
He is interested not in
brush strokes, the paintings are entirely without gesture, but in the impasto brought
about by this layering which in turn lends the heads an extraordinary three - dimensionality.
Greenberg was speaking
about «The
stroke left by a loaded
brush or knife.»
In these works, paint is applied with a
brush, but it's not
about the
stroke or mark in the abstract expressionist sense.
What's so impressive
about these paintings is how the loose
brush strokes capture the energy and very essence of the scene.
While the other Abstract Expressionists were mining their own feelings, intuitions and subconscious emotions and using them to create works that were deeply personal and rife with hidden meaning, Kline made work that was
about the formal qualities of painting, such as paint,
brush stroke, composition and color.
These works were all
about the singular aesthetic appreciation of his signature
brush strokes and the surrounding negative space.
«Rauschenberg was radically egalitarian
about what art could be: a sock, a
brush -
stroke of paint, a movement that was non balletic.
Phillis Ideal: Recent Paintings 2008 - 2012 Phillis Ideal's work is
about the materiality of paint which represents a wide range of abstraction: layers of transparent and thick,
brushed and sprayed paint; collaged fragments imbedded in medium; zeroxed rasta dots, computer graphics, shards of other drawings; as well as, large gestural
brush strokes.
In a conversation at the gallery, I asked the artist
about the smudges, scrapes, corrections, and
brush strokes that were visible on the surfaces.
Life is too short to worry
about a few
brush strokes.