Sentences with phrase «giant fountain pens»

He used sticks and basting syringes like giant fountain pens, according to his widow Lee Krasner.

They are now extremely fragile due to Pollock's unconventional use of enamel paint — essentially an industrial or household material (used to coat gutters, not canvases)-- and techniques, which included thinning down the consistency so that he could use a basting syringe, drawing with it «like a giant fountain pen,» as described by Pollock's wife, Lee Krasner.