Sentences with phrase «as paint pigment»

His use of actual dirt from the sites he visits as paint pigment enforces the solidity and permanence of these places and connection to the images he makes.

For the handful of exoplanets with stratospheres, the absorber is typically thought to be a molecule such as titanium oxide, a close relative of titanium dioxide, used on Earth as a paint pigment and sunscreen ingredient.

Not exact matches

Its rigid compositional attempt to define a rational space is undermined by the floating figures and particularly by the raw application of paint, which sits on the surface of the canvas and reminds us of its autonomous nature as scraped pigment.

«VOC - free» paints take the process one step further, removing unstable, airborne toxins from their pigment formulas as well, making for a much safer product.

The painters used materials such as a red lead that came from as far away as Spain, iron - earth pigment from Greece, and wood substrates — onto which the portraits were painted — from central Europe, he said.

The pigment palette used was consistent with that used by Velazquez and his contemporaries in 17th century Seville, she said, as was the material combination practices like the use of certain pigments together and the use of paint to create volume on the paintings.

Near the prehistoric paint palettes, the archaeologists found stone tools that had been tailored to prepare the ocher mixture, as well as shaped pieces of bone that may have been used to apply the pigment.

(As any preschooler knows, red and green make brown if you mix pigments like tempera paints.

With oil paints, certain pigments — such as carbon black and Van Dyke brown — often inhibit the process of polymerization by preventing the triglycerides from hitching up.

Understanding the chemistry of paints and pigments helps conservators work gently as they preserve original artwork.

The anode featured in this latest study is made up of a blend of elements — including manganese, carbon and nitrogen — that is chemically similar to the formula of the iron - containing paint pigment known as Prussian blue.

Murals painted by the Maya and other pre-Columbian cultures often contain a distinctive blue pigment that somehow manages to last for centuries in humid rain forests, as has this mural from Cacaxtla in Mexico.

In modern times, CaCO3 is the most widely used mineral in the paper, plastics, paints and coatings industries both as a filler — and due to its special white color — as a coating pigment.

The researchers identified the pigments used by the artists and the order the paints were applied and to which regions, as well as sources of materials and the style of brushstrokes used.

«Yes, the surface consists of nanotubes, but basically nanotubes are just a thicker form of the native oxide, which is the same as the white pigment that you find everywhere: in food, toothpaste, cosmetics, multivitamin and multimineral supplements, paints — all kinds of products,» she said.

With Sugar's New launch of six gorgeously pigmented metallic nail paints, I wish I had as beautiful nails to flaunt.

The scuba knit ensemble, one of the inspirations for the exhibition, stands as a superlative example of the confluence between the handmade and the machine - made — the pattern on the train was hand - painted with gold metallic pigment, machine - printed with rhinestones, and hand - embroidered with pearls and gemstones.

The color Florence is inspired by malachite, a copper mineral and semi-precious stone that was used as a pigment in paints until about 1800.

Mummies were imported as medical aids, souvenirs, for paint pigment, as interior décor, for making paper and as fertilizer.

The last color is a custom blend for Audi high - performance vehicles — special pigments generate unusual effects as a function of how the light strikes the paint.

For the body, the selenite grey magno, which is essentially a matt paint finish with high - quality special - effect pigments, is available as an option.

All around us are reflective surfaces that provide contrast through pigments — black pigments like carbon black, white pigments like titanium dioxide, which we can find in paints and in inks — and we're accustomed to interacting with these reflective surfaces, as they provide pleasant experiences under a wide range of lighting conditions.

This is as true as saying there are only three primary colors in pigments for inks, paints, etc., and that most others are blends of those three.

At the moment I've been exploring acrylic paint, so as a material I'm really enjoying it, learning about all the pigments and mediums and how to work with them.

In Chestnut (1955), the painting's white field is broken along the center, as if a chestnut tree were pushing through the pigment; and in Red, blue, black (1957), the thick, dark red ground gives way at the center to black calligraphed lines concentrated within dense gestural brushwork.

Refining a technique, developed by Jackson Pollock, of pouring pigment directly onto canvas laid on the floor, Ms. Frankenthaler, heavily influencing the colorists Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, developed a method of painting best known as Color Field — although Clement Greenberg, the critic most identified with it, called it Post-Painterly Abstraction.

I gained new practical knowledge about the importance building up layers and applying glazes, because as each successive layer is built up on top of another, on completion the intensity of the pigments positively brings the painting alive with colour.

Although one is aware of the artist's scumbling and scraping of pigment, Rothko's paint handling doesn't announce itself as such.

But her relation to representation is not in the realm of narrative or allegory, the thing itself is the important thing, the painting as an object that projects into our space carrying pigment on its surface.

His kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping grids and patterns create complex pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see, as the artist has said, «all the events that went into the making of the painting.»

Seliger was equally celebrated for his meticulously detailed abstractions as well as for the techniques he invented and used to cover the surfaces of his Masonite panels — building up layers of acrylic paint, often sanding or scraping each layer to create texture, and then delineating the forms embedded in the layers of pigment with a fine brush or pen.

The works of Saville and Fischl, for example, were framed to demonstrate ways that artists can use paint as a stand - in for physicality — pigment and texture as skin and bone.

Tracts of color are dragged across the canvas using a squeegee, so that the various strains of malleable, semi-liquid pigment suspended in oil are fused together and smudged first into the canvas, and then layered on top of each other as the paint strata accumulate to bring color and textural juxtapositions.

Cain's uninhibited use of pigment and found materials such as chain link, sunglasses, pinwheels, and prisms reveal her confrontation and challenge of the traditional tenets of painting.

Trish Wylie: It comes from the colour Rose Madder, which is a fugitive pigment meaning the colour is not fixed and changes over time, its the colour that I have used to paint myself and by adding I, changed the words from a noun to a sentence, so for me the colour has a symbolic value as well as a physical value.

To make his paintings, Whitten used an inventive and broad range of materials such as iron oxide, dry pigments, crushed Mylar, ash, bone, and blood.

I use the Winsor & Newton professional ranges of paints as I know that the colours are highly pigmented, permanent and lightfast, and have perfect consistency and adhesive qualities.

Monochrome dust may have you thinking of Yves Klein with his blue sponge and carpet of blue pigment, trademarked as «Klein blue,» or Piero Manzoni painting with cobalt chloride.

I didn't notice that anything was wrong as I painted the loose early washes in the first few stages of project, but as soon as I needed to be more accurate in laying down the pigments, (e.g. painting the greys on the doorstep and needing to make a straight line) I realised just how bad the problem was.

The surfaces in the recent work from 2013 — 14 reveals more literal variations of black pigment, often utilizing an uncompromising matt underpainting as a support for glossy black on top; or, alternatively, light refracting from severe cuts into a hardened density of pigment, unequaled in works associated with subsequent modes of pastiche used in some overworked paintings associated with painters of The New York School in the turbulent late fifties.

Using a mortar and pestle, students grind natural pigments such as saffron or cochineal to create paint which they use to design an illuminated letter.

A pair of concurrent shows at Craig Krull features paintings that, despite firm adherence to the tradition of pigment on canvas, appear to exist as...

But there are tiny marvels beneath the aggression — simmering florets of intense pigment; elegantly ridged smears of paint; watery splashes of translucent, earthy green denoting a rocky islet («raggedy, spruce covered Peabow Island,» as Christopher Crosman describes it in his essay for the show's catalogue) glimpsed from Seal Point's shoreline — the rewards of simply letting your eyes roam.

(He started using enamel paint as he couldn't afford artist's pigments.)

Evoking its greatness led Stella to bemoan the non-existence of an audience attuned to the glories of pigment and of paintings that celebrate it, such as «Railroad Horse» and Hofmann's «Gloria Mundi» (1963), abstractions that truly show us painting as «the glory of the world.»

They are conceived as three - dimensional armatures that are then painted solid colors with pigments made from tempera and ground glass.

Subsequently Montgomery chooses either to keep this «pigment transfer» as is or add various other layers of paint, pastel or found materials.

Adolf Gottlieb, the Abstract Expressionist, used bursts of red pigment as image and as structural element, while Josh Smith now churns out messy abstract paintings like child's play — or like an emerging artist's assembly - line product.

Eschewing tools, as if to reject any reliance on the flightiness of brushwork, he applies layer upon layer of somber - hued pigment directly with his hands, not so much to paint as to rub the color onto the canvas.

«By the early 1980s, Brodsky's approach involved an exploration of flattened pictorial space built up from layers of pigment that create an overall surface pattern of light and shade, the whole animated by energetic ribbons of color that dance across the canvas as a record of the artist's spontaneous gesture, attesting to his engagement with the process of painting itself,» wrote Chalif.