Sentences with phrase «cracking paint patterns»

Ever the innovator, the craquelure paintings offer a new technique to his painting repertoire while also referencing the cracking paint patterns found in Old Masters» paintings.

Not exact matches

By applying layers of incompatible paints, varnishes and other liquids, including coffee and wine, Larmon has achieved extraordinary textures - from viscous pools to patterned cracks and rills.

The images used in the painting include photographs of the earth taken from space, a reptile cracking out of an egg, skiers making patterns in the snow, and a landscape with a windmill and grazing cattle, among others.

At the other end of the scale, just eighteen by thirteen inches, Celmins has painted a close - up of a glazed ceramic plate, depicting it as an allover pattern of white cracks on greenish - gray field.

His compositions include Braque - inspired, semi-representational scenes; abstract, allover patterns; color fields; hard - edged geometric shapes; and, recently, what he calls his «crackle paintings,» whose cracked and layered surfaces resemble tree bark or parched ground.

This includes a large painting of a night sky in reverse — featuring dark stars on a light sky — and a close - up painting of cracks on a plate that becomes a pattern of lines and color.

The pattern of lines is augmented by creases in the canvas and related cracking in the paint surface.