Sentences with phrase «even layering of paint»

The exposed strata of sites such as Downpatrick Head echo the layers of the Grand Canyon, a heterogeneous stack of books or even layers of paint on a studio floor all of which are represented in the exhibition.

Apply an even layer of paint to the wood using a paintbrush in the direction of the wood grain, then use a clean rag to wipe away the excess paint.

Not exact matches

Industrial emissions of a chemical commonly used in solvents, paint removers, and the production of pharmaceuticals have doubled in the past few years, researchers have found, which could slow the healing of the ozone layer over Antarctica anywhere between 5 and 30 years — or even longer if levels continue to rise.

Wood scans can also be used to model sap - flow simulations, to study fungus development, and even to model the penetration of paint layers.

I want to try this method, I've been making my own chalk paint, and painted my china cabinet, and used the Minwax dark wax to antique it, it's not for everyone, but the look is just what I want, old world look, not even put it has character, I am doing my coffee table as well, I find very ornate pieces cheap and paint a base cream chalk paint and then go over it with the Minwax dark, let it sit for 15 min and buff, then add another layer of wax, its so much fun, but the problem I'm having is I'm ADD and I have 5 projects going at once!

The technical features are matched by a new, even more extensive choice of colours developed by the Ferrari Styling Centre, including two - tone finishes, three - layer paint technology and modern re-interpretations of classic colour schemes which increase the exclusive personalisation possibilities even further.

So Saturday evening I did a little bit of spray painting in my back yard and she was out there for one layer of paint and was anywhere from 2 yards to 20 yards away from me.

Later, many of his paintings would be on plastic — whether thick or thin, ridged or smooth — which contributed to the eerie clarity of their layering and made them seem two - sided, even when hanging on the wall.

This has partially been attributed to his complete uniqueness and, of late, an awe of his tireless reworking of each painting, even at the expense of obliterating entire layers.

An intriguing exception, at Context, was a 10 - gallery showcase of South Korean artists, all individually compelling and working in mediums ranging from textured painting to layered glass, though so similar in their subtle sensibility that they struck me as a collective, or even, a genre.

The variety with which paint is brushed, scraped, layered, piled up and dug into fills these works with markedly distinct passages of paint - handling, in the old - fashioned sense, even while they seem to push paint to new physical limits.

In these paintings the palette is earthy, the black layered on brown and ochre shades, but even in a work like Black Moves (1964), the dark tones are animated by contrast with a small triangle of red, and some delicate small dotting of yellow.

«Through an innovative process of layering, embellishing and eroding materials, Bradford's paintings are a kind of an archeology of the present, even as they explore the limits and possibilities of abstraction.»

Thea Ballard with a short review on Bracha L. Ettinger's latest exhibition at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York: «Though small and even unassuming, her striated oil paintings (in deep bodily reds and purples) are rewarding and dense - both in theoretical weight and in composition, her method involving a years - long process of layering.»

With highly textured surfaces, the result of layers upon layers of oil paint, Auerbach's oil on canvases are rather more obscure, even, you could say, undecipherable.

, New York: «Though small and even unassuming, her striated oil paintings (in deep bodily reds and purples) are rewarding and dense - both in theoretical weight and in composition, her method involving a years - long process of layering.»

As students we were doing lots of things around our paintings while we were making miniatures: checking our colour palette and tools at the edge of the paper, trying out different kinds of lines while making the borders, even tracing figures then hiding them behind a thick layer of paint.

Yet even here the depth extends only to two and a half dimensions, like a diagrammatic expansion of each painting's layers or a column of shifting screens.

Layers of previous activity can be seen, for instance, beneath the surface of The Dark Lady, 1947/85, that are visible yet not convincingly appropriated into the painting's completion — not even in the very late revision as reflected in the double date.

Even though artists use the «white painting» for different objectives, the play of light and shadow, using the canvas to inspire a unique meditational experience absent of all outside references, and the inevitable comparison with notions of the «white - cube» gallery all play into the layers of meaning hidden under all that white paint.

Some sculpted heads, and even a few paintings, wear squares of knitted wire that could be a veil or armor befitting Joan of Arc, while others are often exquisitely blushed with layers of pastel, paint and paraffin.

We see areas of detail and focus: a perfectly rendered water tower, windows, and even more appropriately scaffolding emerge through the layers of paint.

«Even though her entire oeuvre can be seen as an extended exploration of the formal principles of art, in her work — and its presentation — she takes very seriously the affective possibilities of painting, cuing color to emotion and layering onto the nonverbal realm the visual jokes and humor inherent to cartoons and comics,» writes Molesworth.

The recent paintings, even more than earlier work, are about a saturation and layering of sense memory.

This sexualised interpretation joins other misconceptions about Pollock's work, including his wife's own suggestion that Mural was painted in a single night, when restorers have since found layers of paint worked on over weeks or even months.

It seems (at the risk of making a simplistic checklist) there could be some criteria for abstract painting such as; non literal, integration of the picture plane, even optical pressure (Richard Ward's term in a Brancaster discussion), no false structures, no layering, relationality.

Like the fluctuating, expansive space suggested by her elegantly varied paint handling, surface inflections, and color relationships, this conceptual contradiction keeps us a little off balance, suggesting yet another layer of allusion even as the specificity of that allusion escapes us, like an imperfect memory or a rapidly disappearing dream image.»

Even though the vivid colors he once started working with have been covered by layers of white paint, the effort of their participation was not a waste, they always enriched the canvas.He frequented the American Museum of Natural History to gain further knowledge of the spiritual aspects of African, Native American, & Oceanic art.

He began by pouring bold, sometimes even fluorescent colors of paint directly onto unprimed, unstretched canvases, which he would then fold and crumple while still wet to create luminous washes of color layered with glowing striations, drips, and pools of pigment.

Painted at heroic scale in her layered, quick - flick manner, they made economical use of her Bacchanalian nudes and offered copious amounts of falling leaves in every color of the harvest and the planting season, even in I Will Not Paint Any More Boring Leaves (2)(2?).

Even her grid paintings, layered with thin washes of paint, never thirst for more.

The first features the work of painter Jack Davidson: bright collaged pieces that layer materials such as paint, ink, digital elements and even gold leaf and record his journeys around Barcelona, Spain.

Even Van Gogh's two famous paintings of empty chairs are personalized and profoundly layered symbols.

In his Torn Sky series of the early - to - mid 1970s Goode literally slashed layers of serene cloudscapes with razors and knives revealing other painted canvases below the surface, or even the structure of the canvas itself.

Schutz layers and builds paint in such a way that it appears economical even though she's literally built a swollen lip out of paint.

These encaustic paintings are the results of a repetitive process of adding and removing layers until imagery reveals itself, creating a space for the viewer to enter into a calming or meditative state if even for a moments time, revealing the transformative power of art.

Blood for oil and fear of blackness are two layers of the painting, and even deeper yet is Robinson's interest in reinscribing minimalism with political meaning.

Even the very thickness of the white paint, whether a thin film or layered deep, demands his attention.

Parsons creates these lyrical surfaces with thin layers of paint, pushing the paradigm of flatness in Abstract Expressionism even further than her contemporaries.

The carved grids destroy and remove paint on basswood, revealing layers of color or even the wooden base below.

Layers of paint, ink, paper, fabric, and even glitter, make this a truly unique piece.

They look like the paint was applied quickly, perhaps in an attempt to prevent the conscious mind from interfering too much in the process, yet with time gaps between painting sessions, creating for the artist opportunities to study them, to reflect and even to forget, whilst for the eventual viewer, layers of underpainting slow down the resulting image.

How do you keep the painted relationships in an abstract painting JUST spatial / pictorial — neither depictive, descriptive, suggestive of illusionistic, figurative, atmospheric space; nor literal, one layer on top of another (even though they are), or flatly adjacent?

Fast drying, the medium does not accommodate multiple layers or revisions - paint is applied quickly and confidently, resulting in canvases which emphasize surface even while presenting scenes of mysterious depth.

Even if you stick to the most simple decorating formula (neutrals with a pop of color), you can add more textures and layers with affordable pieces and paint to give your room more interest — and a much richer look without the fat bank account.

Even though Kevin photographed the post, Layla did all of the staging for the photographs and while the cake layers were cooling they both worked on spray painting the patio furniture.

The reason for this is, as additional layers of paint are added, the final paint finish will still have lots of pigment to the overall appearance even though additional dark glazes were added on top of the original color.

You can create dimensional layers with this plaster, using a scraper as it dries... you can scrape or roll in more plaster, or mix in a couple drops of a paint color or two, to add even more depth...