From the ground of the canvas to
the final layer of paint I work at maintaining a life of stroke and color... to make a live painting.»
From the ground of the canvas to
the final layer of paint I work at maintaining a life of stroke and color — to make a live painting.
They are reined in by architectonic structures, broad fields of color are interrupted by smaller gestures and idiosyncratic forms... his work has a palimpsest effect, where layers of previous activity bleed through
the final layers of paint.»
Not exact matches
Or — yes — it is the
final layer on top
of years and years
of paint jobs.
Important
paintings on view from this period include Blue Cradle (1956) and Thursday (1960), which feature strong colors and gestures, as well as Crossfield I (1968), which hints at the
final phase
of Tworkov's career in its grid - like structure and
layered lines.
His
paintings, stemming from this dual interest in the forces
of nature and abstraction, have strong gestural and textural qualities, intricate
layering (with the strongest elements
of each
layer coming through into the
final work), and an evocative sense
of color and light that aim to distill something essential from the natural world.
Finally, he applies as many as 40
layers of acrylic
paints to create the
final work.
During the
final two and a half decades
of his
painting career Resnick's
paintings became monochromatic, albeit with thickly brushed and
layered surfaces.
She begins a work by covering the canvas with gradated colour, and in works like Menso, 2016, and Lya, 2016, these first
paint layers are revealed in the
final design, taking on a primacy, and in the case
of Lüür, 2015, a three - dimensionality through
painted shadows that lift the squirming form off the flat
of the canvas and in to space.
There are no preparatory drawings for a
painting, instead the composition is achieved over time, and in the finished
paintings earlier devices are clearly visible in relief, under the
final paint layer, but fully part
of the
final work.
Paint application: did the student leave any lumps
of paint on the surface that interfered with the
final print
layer?
The
final layer is a confection
of contrastingly coloured whorls and peaks
of paint, tempting to the touch.
After the
painting has been completed and signed, two
final layers of satin varnish are applied to protect the
painting from the accumulation
of dust and dirt.
JBB I would say that I start
paintings with a vague idea
of what I want - whether it's based on previous
paintings I've made or something I've just seen in a museum, in the subway, or on the street - but this idea, this first
layer, is almost never present in the
final work.
In Forms 1, irregular, roughly geometric forms in four loose columns situate themselves on a grey ground, which looks as though it may be comprised
of many
layers of other colours in order to arrive at the richness
of the
final colour... Here, Parsons does not take some real world starting point and abstract from it in the process
of representation, rather she invents by pushing the
paint about on the canvas until forms suggest themselves.
The
painting presented in the exhibition, Reverse Quadchrome (RGB) is the result
of an almost blind protocol: after
painting the canvas on the floor with three successive
layers of paint, red, green, blue, the three colors were mixed then applied in a
final layer of black color, producing a subtractive addition.
Neil Gall (born 1967, UK): Neil Gall's
paintings are the
final stages
of a
layered working process: from modelling to assemblage, photography and
painting.
Next, he applied size (weak glue used in the middle ages to stiffen the pages
of illuminated manuscripts) and
painted the
final layer with tiny brushes dipped in gold leaf.
Next, he went over the drawing with size (weak glue used in the Middle Ages to stiffen the pages
of illuminated manuscripts) and
painted the
final layer with tiny brushes dipped in gold leaf.
The
final layer is often
painted rice paper, allowing her to carefully control the color and texture
of the piece.
He may then add between 20 to 30
layers of transparent color to achieve the radiant
final palette
of each
painting.
«Although all the
paintings are built out
of many
layers, ranging from juicy amalgamated color fields to loose geometric spacial divisions, the
final stage or end product varies greatly from one piece to the next.
Pouring a
layer of resin, letting it dry, then
painting a small portion
of the fish, letting it dry, then pouring another
layer of resin»» patiently repeating these steps until the
final product is a three - dimensional representation
of a goldfish.
Because the droplets are distinct and quite widely spaced they obliterate some but not all
of the previous
layers so that the
final effect is determined not only by the colour and quantity
of the spots
of paint but by the order in which they were applied.
«They consist
of multiple
layers of translucent enamel, and the
final layer is built up through a process
of dabbing on
paint with the index finger.
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.
The gesso also
paints the head white which will ensure that none
of the newspaper print will show through the
final decorative paper
layer.