Sentences with phrase «edge painting techniques»

Not exact matches

Tip: using cardstock becomes a little messy... if you are using chalk paint you can always sand down the sloppy edges and then finish it off with a dry brush technique in the old white to fade some of the those not so nice spots.

I have been hesitant to dive into the chalk paint / clear wax technique, but I think your dresser / changing table just pushed me over the edge!

This level of excellence extends to cutting - edge techniques such as dry - scrubbing, a paint shop process that uses zero water and zero added chemicals.

As disparate as the artistic approaches appear to be in Rothko to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment to process, as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometries.

The latter is one of the most admirable examples of the way the artist combined hard - edged painting with her spray technique, layering veils of color on the suspended geometry that made Byzantium such gravity - free pleasure.

Perhaps Desmarais» jagged - edged sculptures are «small parts» fractured from some invisible «whole,» which the wall text suggested as a key facet of a «sample,» or maybe her square patches of painted wall «correct, enhance, or modify» the «routine» of exhibition display techniques.

Showcasing 60 years of Missoni designs alongside the paintings of leading European artists such as Sonia Delaunay, Lucio Fontana and Gino Severini, the exhibition celebrates the famous family - run fashion house and its commitment to materials, craft techniques and cutting - edge design.

Varying in scenery and painting techniques, the first were loose painterly exploration of aerial photographs of cities and townscapes, then mountain landscapes and park scenes with their hard - edge textured paint surfaces.

But then Frankenthaler, though she never departed from what was soon to become her trademark staining technique, in which she poured thinned paint, initially oils, then acrylic, onto raw canvas, leaving the paint, blooming and thinning at the edges, to sink into the weave but remain luminous, wasn't an artist who often repeated herself.

Marian uses unique techniques mixing paint and glue in order to create semi transparent, sharp edged drippings.

Mullican developed a meditative painting technique that he called «striation,» which involved the application of textured lines of paint to the canvas using the thin edge of a printer's knife.

Lacing Action painting and Color Field painting with a postmodern twist, Zimmermann's abstract motifs seem to spring from more figurative representations: he uses computer graphics and «dithering» (a technique that displays images without firm edges so as to give a more colorful appearance) to deform images, texts and signs from his own massive archive of images, evoking the atlases of Gerhard Richter and Aby Warburg.

From a technique point of view, two trends emerge from this group of work: one; an emphasis on ground - using thin watercolor-esque applications of paint (staining) on to thickly combed grounds of gesso, and two; the use of hard, taped edges and the blending of wet paint on wet paint.

Another technique nuttily reaffirms the «artiness» of many of these abstract paintings: a neatly painted outer edge that boldly encases / frames Strobert's messy paint marks.

This accompanying material sheds light on the processes that influence the appearance of the works: the role of supports, hanging devices, methods of paint application, and techniques of painting straight edges and lines.

But this is more than offset by the advanced painting techniques shown by Altamira's artists which, in the opinion of many experts, gives them the edge over their prehistoric counterparts in France.

Turning from the hard edges of his representational and geometric abstraction, Demarchelier uses curvilinear paint strokes in bold colors to show indeterminate puzzle pieces of reactive shapes moving in the dynamism of shifting systems, a technique that points to the role emotion plays in determining perception.

By 1965 Olitski had evolved a radically innovative technique of laying down atmospheric blankets of colored spray on the canvas, marked at first by barely discernible straight - edged value changes near the edge of the picture and later by acrylic paint dragged along portions of the edge.

His brightly coloured painting - with its flat, razor - edged imagery, influenced by contemporary techniques of Post Painterly Abstraction and the decor of pinball machines - typically uses single words, or commands, billboard - style - to highlight different aspects of American culture, including the illusion and disillusion of love.

Opening with Picabia's solid early Cubist paintings which quickly diffused various critics» claims of painterly illiteracy, the show plows ahead through Picabia's scintillating obsession with Dada, examines his short - lived fascination with film, explores cutting edge experiments with Renaissance and Transparency painting techniques, shows his controversial war - time figurative paintings, and ends (rather deflatedly) with his return to Abstraction.

Fusing pop art's hard edges with the political ideals of social realism, and techniques of Tibetan painting with the graphic symbolism of West African sculpture and design, her practice occupies a unique space within the black arts movement of the 1960s and»70s.

Matisse's technique of exposing the painting process, marrying indoor and outdoor space and aligning the planes of the composition with the edges of the canvas itself raised formal issues that Diebenkorn did not forget.

We have made these by cutting the bottles, polishing the edges, and then decorating them using different techniques such as decoupage, painting, stone work and etching.»