Sentences with phrase «few brushstrokes»

Portrait paintings found in flea markets are given a new lease of life as the artist transforms the sitters» eyes with a few brushstrokes, producing humorous cross-eyed portraits.

With a few brushstrokes, Varga Weisz evokes the most prominent facial features, capturing eyes and expressive mouths within the void of the paper.

Often, only a few brushstrokes or simplified shapes appear on the surfaces.»

Art is more than just a few brushstrokes.

Remember to keep this fairly thin, so we can carry on working over this layer, and use as few brushstrokes as possible.

It's running BlackBerry OS 5.0 which isn't tons different than the OS that shipped on the original Bold or Curve 8900, but it's definitely springier and it has a few brushstrokes of added polish here and there.

Its smooth brushability ensures fewer brushstrokes and minimal grain raising on wood.

Its smooth brushability ensures fewer brushstrokes and minimal grain raising on wood.

Not exact matches

I actually first tried dip dying pumpkins (craft fail) and painting them with a brushstrokes patter (somewhat craft fail) as well as a few other ideas before I tried this one.

I've given you the broad brushstrokes of immediate and longevity annuities, but before you commit you'll want be sure you understand their downsides — the biggest being that if you die soon after investing you may receive few (or in the case of a longevity annuity, no) payments — plus you'll want to do some comparison shopping to make sure you're getting a good deal.

It is incredible that someone could convey so much humanity, simply through a few clever brushstrokes.

I also admire Geoff's ability at being able to suggest a huge mass of detail in foliage by using a limited palette and only a few carefully placed brushstrokes — I just couldn't wait to get started on this one and learn a new list of watercolor techniques!

I admire Geoff's ability at being able to suggest a huge mass of detail in foliage with a few carefully placed brushstrokes, and even though there are 11 colours in the palette for this particular exercise — This was yet another painting where I just couldn't wait to get started on this one and learn more of Geoff's watercolor techniques!

She has the largest, with only a few broad brushstrokes against a slightly lighter field, like calligraphic Chinese art, but in monochrome.

Almost every one of David Bellamy Paintings appears to positively glow with Turneresque warmth, and he paints with a brevity that defies belief, being able to suggest a huge mass of detail with only a few carefully placed brushstrokes, and this book really is one of the best lessons you can buy on how to paint using these techniques in watercolour.

We can detect Corot in the umber - and - olive coloration and sketchy brushstrokes, but there are also reflections of Gustav Moreau, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca and Balthus, to name but a few.

Like a few other painters, Reed sought to do something similar with paint, reducing colors and composition in favor of blunt, individual brushstrokes.

For the past few years, Chantal Joffe RA has been creating warm, intimate portraits of those closest to her, capturing their distinctive features and personalities in her trademark broad, creamy brushstrokes.

Kerlidou writes: «Bonnefoi's strategies seem to condense a few aspects of the work of his American contemporaries: the objectification and theatricalization of a gesture devoid of pathos of David Reed; the deconstructing strategies of Jonathan Lasker — even if Lasker's use of exaggeratedly thick brushstrokes seems closer to Dunoyer; the collaged elements in Philip Taaffe's paintings; and the interplay between the front and back in the work of Craig Fisher.

Look without prejudice at the acrylic Mother (2017), in which a body both uncertain and powerful — the matter of a few, half - submerged brushstrokes — nestles on a wet slap of crimson, or the striding figure in You Protected Me (2016), its upper body rendered with economy, its head a blob of red, set against a spectral landscape.

One of the few modern art movements to come out of Northern Europe, its painting is best known for its child - like imagery, strong primary colours and expressive brushstrokes.

Rubin's characteristic manner of painting — with his subjects reduced to a few adept brushstrokes in a minimal color palette — renders his imagery simultaneously straightforward and ambiguous.

The exhibition ties these pieces quite well to the few large - scale, later canvases on view, showing the artist's continued interest in the compositional considerations of vastly different subject matter, increasingly represented through realistic brushstrokes and the language of mass - market advertising.

One of the few modern art movements to come out of Northern Europe, COBRA paintings are best known for their expressive brushstrokes, child - like imagery and strong primary colours.

While a depiction of a mound of rice or a chopped leek might be intricately detailed and uncannily illusionistic, a sheet of transparent plastic is convincingly communicated in a few decisive brushstrokes.

Bonnefoi's strategies seem to condense a few aspects of the work of his American contemporaries: the objectification and theatricalization of a gesture devoid of pathos of David Reed; the deconstructing strategies of Jonathan Lasker — even if Lasker's use of exaggeratedly thick brushstrokes seems closer to Dunoyer; the collaged elements in Philip Taaffe's paintings; and the interplay between the front and back in the work of Craig Fisher.

Note: the subtle blue «brushstroke» was delayed by few years, which could wrongly imply the artists predictive power.