Covert's surfaces are a combination of rich, abstract underpaintings and grave rubbings
layered with oil sticks.
Not exact matches
Place vegetables and garlic in a single
layer on a baking sheet and drizzle
with oil; sprinkle cinnamon over and scatter cinnamon
sticks around.
Line two cookie sheets
with parchment paper and spread amaranth mixture into thin
layers, using the back of a spatula to even it out (I covered the back of my spatula
with olive
oil so it wouldn't
stick to the amaranth mixture).
Different mixed media painting techniques, using glue, string, card, wax, paper to manipulate and to create texture
with acrylic paint Looking at famous artists like Jackson Pollock, Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, John Hoyland and Howard Hodgkin Resources: Acrylic paint, Sponges,
sticks, large and small paintbrushes, credit card, string, glue, Punchinella, kebab
sticks batik wax, sand, tissue paper, scrap paper and glue guns, Creating a number of different textures
with acrylic paint and see what other mixed media
layering one can achieve
with chalk and
oil pastel as well to
layer over the acrylic paint.
The large vinyl panels are arranged in diamond formations of
layered and fragmented photographs daubed
with spray paint and melted black
oil stick.
Radiating lines drawn in
oil stick across the canvas both infuse the work
with a sense of dynamism and energy and incise
layers into the thick
oil paint.
These drawings, heavily
layered with red and white
oil stick on thick paper, range dramatically in scale from three - inch - high
stick figures to enormous multi-panel compositions.
Pre-cut forms of vegetation are
layered onto paper as he creates textural, black and white backgrounds
with oil stick.
The results are sumptuous abstract encaustic paintings that utilize a minimal color palette and repetitive imagery, thick
layers of translucent and opaque wax, paper prepared
with batik markings and hand rubbed
oil stick combined to create multi dimensional panels.
At the heart of this exhibition are three new such series: a line of five pastels, treated like a kind of reverse sculpture,
with fat
sticks of chalky pigment ground back to dust and worked into thick pages of handmade paper; a sequence of 18 watercolours in which pairs of pigments are dissolved into each other,
layer over
layer, into veils of translucent light; and a series of ten tall, vertical sheets of waxed butcher's paper, carrying
oil paint dissolved into skins of solid and liquid colour.
He started to cover his panels
with photocopies of three things: his Mississippi birth certificate, his passport ID, and his address book, each of which would form the basic structures under his new series of intricately
layered oil stick grids.