Sentences with phrase «brushy layers»

He uses a wide range of brushwork and surface treatments to draw attention to the varied textures of the canvas — often applying distemper (a tempera paint made with dry pigments in animal glue) in thin brushy layers — to capture qualities of light and the changing effects of the atmosphere.

Brushy layers of moody colors meet in sharp angles to create rhythms of space, light, and time.

He uses a wide range of brushwork and surface treatments to draw attention to the varied textures of the canvas - often applying distemper (a tempera paint made with dry pigments in animal glue) in thin brushy layers - to capture qualities of light and the changing effects of the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Johns's well - known flag paintings, which he began making in the mid-1950s, use the brushy paint application common to Abstract Expressionist painters of that time, sometimes layered over collaged newspaper clippings, simultaneously affirming and negating the hand of the artist.

Her work is characterised by pastel colours, layers of transparent washes and brushy textures which she creates for fashion magazines, cosmetics packagings and luxury brands.