Sentences with phrase «by turpentine»

While Newman's work reeled viewers into a color field, Swavely's paintings resist close inspection, for as one approaches, the brushstrokes that once felt voluminous fall flat, having been washed away by turpentine - soaked rags scrubbed across canvas heavy with oil.

Not exact matches

Mountain pepper berries have an oily, mineral - like, turpentine aroma and when even minute grains of the ground fruits are tasted, an initial sweet, fruity flavor is quickly followed by an intense, biting, tongue - numbing and eye - watering heat that continues to build and will not subside for some minutes.

The new odor, a commingling of the vapors of turpentine, rotten eggs and old oysters, comes from dimethyl sulfoxide, better known as DMSO, the controversial and often illegally used drug hailed by a growing legion of amateur and professional athletes who view it as a panacea for many ills ranging from sprained ankles to tendinitis and ripped muscles.

Jude grew up without much of a male role model, and he spends most of his time huffing turpentine with his buddy Teddy (a great small turn by Avan Jogia, also great in a small part in this year's «I Am Michael»).

War and Turpentine — Inspired by the notebooks and reminiscences of his grandfather, a painter who served in the Belgian Army in World War I, Hertmans writes with an eloquence reminiscent of W.G. Sebald as he explores the places where narrative authority, invention and speculation flow together.

Take your long bristled number 8 and add turpentine drop by drop till it is a good consistency to draw with (this is totally up to personal taste, I only added 1 drop).

Turpentine is then repeatedly applied by brush to remove the paint before it dries, washing away or, as Innes has described it, «unpainting» the surface, leaving all but the faintest vestigial traces of color.

In the new «exposed paintings,» two unique colors, created by the artist, are applied to the canvas, while turpentine is utilized to remove a section of the paint before it dries.

With a palette of primary colors, he brushed and pooled turpentine washes across the 74 - by -92-inch canvas.

One canvas is bookended by traceries of dirtied turpentine and delineated with a swift, lilting line.

There are smaller paintings than this, some of theme equally concerned with the process of painting, and with the «deliberately accidental», Callum Innes «s words for the process he adopts of dividing the canvas into two, painting a quarter with a flat colour leaving the other quarter exposed, and then taking the same colour and applying it to the other half of the canvas before «unpainting» it by rubbing it off with turpentine, leaving a ghost of the original colour.

In the Guggenheim show, these large silkscreened works are hung next to Wool's Grey paintings, made by wiping a turpentine - soaked rag over a painted surface.

Ms. Steir's use of runny paint — a mixture that is probably nine parts turpentine to one part pigment — helps us link the work with waterfalls or rainstorms or vistas consumed by mist.

My father was a sign writer so I grew up surrounded by the smell of paint and turpentine.

Frankenthaler began her departure from Pollock by thinning her oil paint with turpentine and then pouring it directly on to the bare canvas.

The pigment is not painted within the outlines of the shape; instead it is layered thickly on to the paper, mixing in small amounts of turpentine, and then adding varnish little by little in a laborious process which lends physicality and depth to the two - dimensional works.

Magasin 3 has the pleasure of introducing German artist Anton Henning in his first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.Too much Skin, Taste & Turpentine is the largest exhibition that Magasin 3 has arranged by a single artist.

Subtracting paint by rubbing out areas using a turpentine - laden cloth and then adding back paint became an important technical element, creating cloud - like areas and voluminous forms, like the orange area in the bottom left corner of «Luminous Undercurrent.»

Most of his paintings are made by «un-painting» as well as painting: A language that he has made his own; oil paint is applied in layers and dissolved away with turpentine, forming something quietly and unexpectedly beautiful.

By the time I was 13, that was all I was doing: oil paint, turpentine, killing brain cells.

These pictures were based on a 1979 series of oil - on - paper paintings, Drunk with Turpentine, which Motherwell had generated by the process of automatism.

Callum Innes» paintings have always sought to reveal the spatial possibilities of the picture plane by a process of removing and eroding paint with turpentine.

His painting is typified by a process of reduction; he erodes a monochrome ground of paint with turpentine to reveal the spatial possibilities of the picture plane.

Helen Frankenthaler, Yearning (1973): Frankenthaler pioneered the second generation of Color Field painting and introduced the technique of staining by painting directly onto unprimed, turpentine - soaked canvas.

Frankenthaler pioneered the second generation of Color Field painting and introduced the technique of staining by painting directly onto unprimed, turpentine - soaked canvas.

However, the paintings in the current exhibition are now punctuated by what Ferris calls «erasures» - zones of wet paint that have been wiped with rag - cloth and turpentine, always in straight lines across the canvas vertically or horizontally.

Instead of trying to depict his inner thoughts and feelings, he developed a painstaking process of applying paint to his prepared surfaces, before removing areas of that paint by the use of turpentine.

Many of the gallery's artists are influenced by Asian art which so often employs pine tree imagery, and then there is old fashioned fragrance of art, the smell of Turpentine.

In due course, this invention was applied to paint by Bocour Artists Colors, Inc. who launched a narrow range of acrylic paints in a turpentine solution which could be mixed with oils.

Perhaps most telling in all of Wool's repertoire of anti-gestural gestures is his propensity, since 2000, to paint by erasing — to wipe away with a turpentine - soaked rag the marks he's already made.

In «Cool Summer» and «Hommage à M. L.,» from 1962, vertical and horizontal squiggles form loose clusters, separated from one another, and from the surrounding canvas, by the greasy - looking halos (the result of diluting oil with turpentine).

Inspired by the enamel stains of Jackson Pollock and the thin washes of Helen Frankenthaler, Louis created his Veils by pouring Magna acrylic paint thinned with turpentine onto unprimed, unstretched canvases.