Drawn initially by the accidental beauty of
the layered painted surfaces that cover up graffiti, I recognized them as powerful remnants of development resulting from constant negotiations in an ever - changing urban environment.
Not exact matches
Use a pastry brush to
paint a thin
layer of melted butter or oil onto the
surface of the double
layer filo rectangle.
In solution form, their solar absorber
layer — the part made from the copper indium diselenide or CIGS materials and critical to the performance of the cell — can be easily
painted or coated onto a
surface.
For each
layer, the challenge was to find a way to mix the electrically conductive material with various polymers to create a
paint that could be sprayed onto
surfaces one coat at a time.
Essentially, the thin
layer of metallic
paint provides a consistent
surface for light to reflect from.
The iron - and chromium - based pigments of the
surface layer correlated with the
painting's current structure and its palette of mostly blues (
painted with the iron - based Prussian blue and with ultramarine, Picasso's Blue Period blue of choice) and yellow - greens (
painted with chromium - based yellows).
However, X-ray fluorescence scans can only be used to detect bone black on the
surface of a
painting and not in sub-
surface layers, such as is found in hidden sketches.
Every work
surface reveals
layers and
layers of colour — the result of countless
painting projects.
To cover your Easter eggs in a
layer of glitter, simply coat the entire
surface of
painted or unpainted eggs with all - purpose white glue.
Apply the first
layer of
paint onto the
surface.
If you prime first and then want to distress the edges to create an aged look, you will see the white
layer of primer show up on your
painted surface.
If there is bleed through of the tannins or stain in the wood after one coat of chalk
paint, you should use clear shellac over the
surface first, let dry, then apply another
layer of chalk
paint.
Approaches to oil
painting techniques include indirect
painting, whereby successive
layers of
paint are added to build up a
painting's
surface, as well as «wet into wet,» which involves blending wet
paint directly on the canvas and is closely associated with alla prima
painting.
As the viewer regards two separate
paintings by 16th century Dutch painter Pieter Aertsen, titled The Vegetable Seller (1576) and A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms (1551) respectively, each cut to a different fragment of the
paintings»
surfaces raises questions: what do the artworks depict; what is placed in their foregrounds; what is relegated to the background; and, ultimately, what meanings can be excavated from the artworks»
layers and represented objects?
The experimental techniques are: white
paint printing, collage, wax and scratch, distressing
surfaces, dripping
paint, scraping
paint, using sgrafitto, cardboard collaging and
layering and digital manipulations with collage to using fabric and sewing into
surfaces.
Simply tape off the edges of a table, prime the
surface, and apply a couple
layers of whiteboard
paint.
Preventing the weave protruding the
paint finish, Aston Martin employs a patented «
surface veil» technology applying a 200 micron thick
layer of epoxy glue to the carbon fibre, before the application of seven
layers of
paint producing a class A level of finish.
The «self - cleaning»
paint, called Ultra-Ever Dry, creates a protective
layer of air between the
paint and environment, effectively stopping standing water and road spray from creating dirty marks on the LEAF's
surface.
Approaches to oil
painting techniques include indirect
painting, whereby successive
layers of
paint are added to build up a
painting's
surface, as well as «wet into wet,» which involves blending wet
paint directly on the canvas and is closely associated with alla prima
painting.
Approaches to oil
painting techniques include indirect
painting, whereby successive
layers of
paint are added to build up a
painting's
surface, as well as «wet into wet,» which involves blending wet
paint directly on the canvas and is closely associated with alla prima
painting.
Ambiguous features can morph from immense beauty into utter despair, with hints of the eyes breaking the
surface beneath
layers of
paint, charcoal, turpentine, expressive brush strokes and often physical DNA from the artists» fingertips.
Ruth's fascination with
layering — of placing transparent glazes over the
surface of a
painting — has become a signature of her work.
Hunter writes: «In the show, twelve recent, mostly large - scale, conventionally stretched works share fast - looking brush strokes; few visible
layers of oil or acrylic; a graphic, flat appearance that emphasizes
surface; and the impression — confirmed in the curatorial statement — that these
paintings did not take long to make... The works in the exhibition raise the question, for me, of what it is that we value about
painting right now — where we locate meaning and value in
paintings made quickly.»
William Pettet (born in 1942), by 1967 in Los Angeles, was
painting minimal, square, monochromatic
paintings with meticulously
layered and sprayed, acrylic
surfaces.
The
paintings feature a heightened chromatic palette, complex figure / ground reversals, and interlocking forms, as well as a variety of
surface textures modified by successive
layers of resins, oils, and waxes.
Malevich said that a
painted surface is a real living form, here in sheer vitality Leonhardt activates her
paintings with numerous
layers of thick oil
paint.
She notes: «The black and white
paintings are purely about the
surface of momentary thought and the colour fields are about the depth and vault of emotion and memory
layered on top of each other.
Known for her vocabulary of schematic linear constructions evocative of fantastic structures, tight to loose linear coils, and flat, template - like shapes, Greenbaum has steadily moved from drawing in thin
paint on white grounds to
layering the
surface with different structures and gestures.
Rubin builds up the
surfaces of her work with undiluted, unglazed
layers of oil
paint applied with uncanny precision.
Those
layers harden with various thickness and viscosity, the pools of
paint, cracks, and coagulations creating enticing
surfaces that capture a delicate relationship between control and accident.
Jones then
paints numerous
layers, repeatedly sanding and reworking the
surface to attain a natural abraded texture.
Upon exploring the stained
surfaces of Krone's Screen
Paintings, one is made aware of the causality occurring between the artist's systematic
layering process and its entirely arbitrary result.
The densely
layered surface of built - up oil
paint in Tuxedo Junction is echoed decades later in the wrinkles of tissues pressed against the glass plate of the photocopier as DeFeo investigates texture in two and three dimensions.
Partly a reaction against Abstract Expressionism, best known in the thickly
layered paintings of American artists Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, Hard - Edge emphasized angular lines, reduced forms, precise
surfaces, and rich colors.
The
paintings by David Ainley are colour monochromes built up in
layers of thick
paint, forming a substantial
surface into which Ainley scores lines, revealing parts of the underpainting, in a process that is similar to excavation or mining.
Systems of marks traverse intensely
layered surfaces, coalescing into an image of the bust as passages of thick
paint are scraped,
layered, blocked out, and worked up into a complex viewing experience.
But when seen up close, what look like Impressionistic brushstrokes reveal themselves to be tiny but precise indentations, carved into
surfaces that have been built up with dozens of shimmering
layers of acrylic
paint.
In Still Life on a Red Tablecloth (1934),
painted and incised patterns provide
surface variation to the
layered fabrics on the table and heighten the color.
The
surfaces of these works are hyper - refined in some passages, offset by several visibly distinct
layers of
paint, and Reynolds manages to capture the awe - inspiring mountain sky and light with exceptional accuracy, nodding to the Light and Space artists» interest in tempered atmosphere.
Seliger was equally celebrated for his meticulously detailed abstractions as well as for the techniques he invented and used to cover the
surfaces of his Masonite panels — building up
layers of acrylic
paint, often sanding or scraping each
layer to create texture, and then delineating the forms embedded in the
layers of pigment with a fine brush or pen.
In each
painting, a thin, vertical line where the cleansed and
painted sections of the composition meet visually vibrates with the remnants of the
surface's original
layers of
paint and separates the two halves of the canvas.
[11] The
layers of
paint build up a
surface with tangible depth.
The
surfaces of the works are comprised of
layer after
layer of
paint — a skill he has been honing his whole career.
Sakaizawa's iterative process makes similar use of the canvas, as
layers of
paint, applied in dozens of identical gestures, build out beyond a two - dimensional
surface.
To prepare the ground, he covered the entire
surface in multiple
layers of a radiant lead white, which were then sanded down and
painted again, only to be sanded anew, «until the
surface became almost translucent» (M. Stevens and A. Swan, De Kooning: An American Master, New York, 2004, p. 562).
Richter drags, smears, and scrapes
layers of wet
paint, leaving tracks of his movements across the
surface and then covering them up.
Moving into the latter part of the 60s, the third and fourth rooms suggest a broadening of Hoyland's palette and a more overt crowding of the
surface with forms and, in the case of 17.1.69 (1969), a
layering of the
paint in so sophisticated and meticulous a manner that the canvas tends towards opalescence.
Bold brushstrokes tear through delicately
painted passages, producing intricately
layered tumultuous
surfaces.
But whereas the work of those artists achieves a meaningful dissonance through a sundry aggregation of disjunctive motifs, Picabia's
layered images serve to reinforce one another within each
painting, coalescing in their signification into a unified expression or theme: in one case it is the seductive menace of his Portrait of Kiki (ca. 1938 - 40), a demimonde figure
painted in lurid yellows and greens with a spider form imposed over her face; in another it is the cheesy eroticism of Reve (ca. 1935), an image of a sleeping woman about to be kissed imposed over a nude standing (like Botticelli's Venus, but with arms upraised) on the
surface of the waves.
She infused her art with these experiences through a labor intensive process — applying many
layers of
paint by hand to each piece and sanding the
surfaces to a fine finish — and the bands of rich color that cover her sculptures, liberated from the traditional two - dimensional plane of
painting, prompt viewers to make their own associations with her work.