Sentences with phrase «drawing with oil stick»

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Radiating lines drawn in oil stick across the canvas both infuse the work with a sense of dynamism and energy and incise layers into the thick oil paint.

These drawings, heavily layered with red and white oil stick on thick paper, range dramatically in scale from three - inch - high stick figures to enormous multi-panel compositions.

A few drawings appear on linen, with oil stick.

Her legacy will be perhaps the «shacks» which she creates by first photographing the dwellings, then drawing them with pastel oil sticks and, finally, constructing models of them from scraps of wood and metal.

Using oil stick, Shrigley's characteristic line is rendered as though he were drawing with a pencil, but is characterised here by the textured opacity of the material.

She offers this information as a kind of afterthought, along with a dry, technical description of her awesome, stomach - turning output («This is a show of works on paper and on linen, drawn and collaged using ink, blade, glue, and oil stick») in the concluding paragraph of her accompanying statement.

Drawing primarily from African American authors such as Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, Ligon regularly employs appropriated text as a scaffold to build the surface of his work with his trademark stencil and oil stick.

With red oil stick Thomas has drawn pointed ears on the policeman and a pitchfork in his hand, making him into a cartoonish devil.

One of Kruglyanskaya's regular devices is to paint a preparatory drawing into a painting, as in Puppeteers with a Big Face (2015), where the drawing is reproduced in oil stick, held up by two black - clad figures on either side.

Since 1996, Ligon has used the essay as the basis of his «Stranger» series, including prints, drawings, and dense paintings made with oil stick and often coal dust that oscillate between legibility and obscurity.

A chronicler of the Irish landscape, particularly the rivers and coastal areas of the south of Ireland, as well as the North Mayo countryside, Kiely specialises in semi-abstract thick impasto style oil painting, as well as mixed media drawing with charcoal, pencil, water, clay sticks, and chalks.

Bell's balancing of the terms «abstraction» and «materials» is significant — especially with regard to the works from 1978 on display here — by differentiating the absolute thingness of these paintings from the allusions to the observational world that you find even in something as densely materialist as Richard Serra's black oil - stick drawings.

Among Ligon's own contributions to «Encounters and Collisions» were several works with texts that employ the first - person pronoun: In Untitled (I am drawn to sleaze...), 1985, the parenthetical phrase has been handwritten across an expanse of juicy oil pigment; in Untitled (I Lost My Voice I Found My Voice), 1991, the text was repeatedly stenciled in oil stick onto a gessoed white ground until it became illegible; in Study for Condition Report, 2000, annotations identifying damage and wear are made on a photocopy of a photograph of a painting reprising the famous protest signs declaring I AM A MAN.