Sentences with phrase «from layers of acrylic paint»

Mehretu creates large - scale paintings constructed from layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark - making using pencil, pen, ink and thick streams of paint.

The surfaces of her pictures are built from layers of acrylic paint, charcoal and coloured pencil in vintage, jewel - like colours: mahogany and maroon, peach and lime, ice - blue and old rose.

Not exact matches

Fabricated from wood and painted with monochromatic layers of acrylic, they often resemble sleek, rectangular columns or pillars.

Although she follows a fixed method in her painting, applying purely geometrical shapes to a classic 48 x 38 cm portrait format in layer after layer of oil and acrylic paint, her painting is far removed from serial production.

Half a dozen larger works will be on display as well as a number of pieces from the artists «Incising» series where acrylic paintings on clayboard are lightly carved to exposing the underlining color forms, continuation in the artists curiosity with layering, movement and linear connections.

Deriving from a traditional practice, Wang produces his Coffin paintings by working with his canvas resting flat on the studio floor, systematically applying layers of acrylic paint in alternating colors — at times monochromatic, at times colorful — resulting in a densely stratified surface.

However, the layering of images in my recent paintings, the layering of past histories intertwined with personal histories, becomes my own mythology» - Rita Ackermann, December 1997 New works by Rita Ackermann, ballpoint pen, acrylic and pastel paintings on canvas, will be on display from January 8 — February 7, 1998

They are composed with various techniques, graceful drawings of acrylic, repetitive overlaying of gesso or dye, patterns that come into appearance from masking, and the visual effect that embraces richness in layers arouse a curiosity to explore what is illustrated deep inside the paintings.

Fabricated from wood and painted with monochromatic layers of acrylic, these works resemble sleek, rectangular columns or pillars.

The Mnuchin show samples the most extensive of these, the «Veils,» which he painted between about 1954 and 1960: mostly large canvases that he tilted to soak with layered, broad runs of translucent acrylic, their downward course narrowing slightly from top to bottom.

More recently, this intricate detail has been replaced by bold, reductive statements of monochrome colours such as hazard orange and fluorescent yellow, the surface of which is built up from wedges of found material embedded between layers of acrylic paint and paper.