Here's the issue — underneath many, many
layers of paint there is original wood.
Not exact matches
Once I've printed the fabric, I embellish the prints further by using a mix
of techniques, such as hand or machine stitching, adding touches
of colour by hand
painting small areas here and
there, all
of which add an extra
layer of interest to the prints.»
I then
painted the box using primer just to make sure
there is no bleeding through the
paint, I used some grey
paint for the base
layer and for the top
layer I used some
of my home - made chalk
paint to
paint it.
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.
If StarCraft were to be released for XBLA, Blizzard should update the visuals here and
there and apply a slick new
layer of high - definition
paint.
When your car is waxed, then
there is an additional
layer of defense for your car's body panels aside from its
paint.
So Saturday evening I did a little bit
of spray
painting in my back yard and she was out
there for one
layer of paint and was anywhere from 2 yards to 20 yards away from me.
There's a superficial part to me as well, so I want to show that in the line drawings, but I also possess the sensibility that's expressed in the color
paintings through the
layers of paint.
There are schools that teach Tonal Value by having you
paint first in monochrome or Grisaille, and then
painting over this with
layers of color.
Abramowitz writes: «As is typical
of his
paintings, [Auerbach's] drawings often show many
layers of built - up re-workings until
there is a dense mangle
of lines, each mark thought through, erased and re-considered until he is satisfied... His working process results in portraits that are both an expression
of his reaction to the sitter, and his own idiosyncratic way
of working, creating, destroying, and creating anew.»
This
painting is very superficial with the perspective, with the illusion, to get you into the
layers of the image, to the conceptual part, to the idea
of the land and what has happened
there.
Going back to how you [Gooding] describe the earlier work,
there was in fact a self - conscious desire to block off or direct the viewer's process
of looking at it or looking into it, and this later evolved into a later stage in which
there was actually an invitation to «look in», but in which at all times the viewer was encouraged to be aware that the
painting was made out
of real things, real physical
layers, rather than illusions.»
There are a lot
of silver under -
layers in my
paintings that get covered up and they change how light magic happens.
The leaping colors and shapes
layered in Cecily Brown's
paintings are energized by the influence
of artists including de Kooning and Rubens, so it's not surprising that
there are some intense sketches behind them.
Ferris: Spray
painting is a very thin way
of painting, and
there are many
layers of thin
paint.
There's something about the quality
of the brushstrokes, the
layers of paint and glaze creating depth, and the use
of forms that can conjure dreams
of a cityscape that feels like his work belongs to both contemporary abstraction and the heyday
of Abstract Expressionism.
It was
there that he spent the majority
of his life, becoming a French national in 1962, but it was only after enrolling at the Slade School
of Art in London that Poliakoff discovered abstract
painting and the importance
of layering.
The process
of Wolniak's recent
paintings is harder to trace by eye, given the visual complexity
of their
layered surfaces, but the evidence is
there.
When I'm making a physical
painting, in order to make the next
layer of a composition, I have to change what's
there and wreck it and overrule it, so it's much more pleasant and kind
of liberating to suddenly have the past available.
There is no need to pre-define their characteristics because these reveal themselves innately.The
layering of painterly thought is an art form that attracts artists who start with an idea and accept that it will not be carried out as planned because unforeseen changes — some radical, some subtle — will smuggle themselves into the making.Overall, Kahn's
paintings became much more complex.
And, like rogue drones, imagery and structural anomalies land in the composition and
there — anchored among
layers of hand drawn lines and surface embellishments — they become
paintings.
There is also a performative quality in his works, which becomes clear not only when Linnenbrink pours the resin with its added pigments onto the image carrier, or drills holes in the hardened
paint layers of some
paintings.
There will be demonstrations
of layering and intermixing media, techniques and substrates — ink, pastels, acrylic, oil
paint, collage, and monoprinting.
There's a
layer of time in the way Twombly's Bacchus
paintings seem both to go back to earlier works, like the blackboard
paintings that are in some ways so austere and cerebral.
One can almost see your strokes as a kind
of allover calligraphy, and
there is something about the space in some
of your
paintings that seems to build into a space like, for example de Kooning's ribbons
of color that are
layered and overlapping, and working with and against gravity.
Sometimes
there are elements
of collage; on occasions the aluminium plate sits behind a pair
of acrylic
layers, themselves
painted on to create a three - dimensional effect.
There is duplicity in each
painting that traces the relationship between violence and defeat, and he successfully represents the process
of decision - making in his
layered canvases.
Indeed
there is an unresolvable tension between the vividness
of the
paintings» enlarged content, and the accumulated
layers of mediation or reproduction that separate that content from the here - and - now.
Since the «Skinny Jeans»
paintings have multicolored
layers underneath, the performance
of the
paintings is very much about revealing the surface as incidents
of light, brushstroke and touch and (sometimes symbols or graphic images) so
there is always a double text
of «
painting the
paint» and revealing the image that states it's also an act, a performance
of text and subtext.
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.
It was a Futura 2000 style scrape, Because we had the «Celluloid» covers, The Phase2, The Futura,
there were those four records and it's Futura standing by one
of his
paintings with a scrape on it and we used to look at it and wonder how he'd done that, so I tried it... Just
layered the
paint down, scraped it and that was the first real abstract
painting that I had done.
I am sure Tracey Emin is here because
of her name, but
there is a great group
of watercolour and ink drawings by Lucia Nogueira — who understood how to use tentativeness as a positive quality, as well as full - on emphatic colour against the whiteness
of the paper — and a group
of Callum Innes works that are to do with veiling, and the way
layering of colour affects the luminosity
of watercolours, which all depend on how light passes through the
paint and is reflected back at us.
Morgan writes: «Eager to dispel any and all traces
of what he knew was «out
there,» Scully assiduously began to
paint in relation to
layering.
Liebman remarks: «Every decision I make I want
there to be a formal reason and another level
of meaning, so it works on multiple
layers... When I see the
paintings, I can't help but see them in reference to the original image, but the viewer doesn't necessarily have that.
There's no eraser or additional
layer of paint to disguise a mistake in this practice.
In her most recent works, abstraction takes precedence, yet
there is always a connection to the figure, however muted, under
layers of thinly applied
paint.
There is no mystery concerning the production
of the work as one might ponder
layers of paint in one
of Reinhardt's
paintings.
There is texture; the subtle dips and hills left by sanding away multiple
layers of paint make the panels visceral in a way completely unlike traditional
paintings.
It seems (at the risk
of making a simplistic checklist)
there could be some criteria for abstract
painting such as; non literal, integration
of the picture plane, even optical pressure (Richard Ward's term in a Brancaster discussion), no false structures, no
layering, relationality.
The video — the only work in Rose's first show at Pilar Corrias — runs for roughly eight minutes and is a feast for the eyes,
layering cut - out imagery from illustrated children's stories in a profusion
of media and textures:
there are clippings
of half - tone printing,
paintings, pencil sketches and digital pen drawings.
There could be no finer retort than the eloquent
paintings of McArthur Binion, which employ the artist's own private documents as the primary
layer of beautifully worked lattices.
While the drip
paintings were built up in energetic
layers of color that could veil errors, Mr. Delahunty argued,
there was nowhere to hide in the black
paintings.
There are also examples from the Lens
Paintings series which used semi-transparent
layers of materials to attempt to emulate holograms.
There is a distinctive methodology behind the making
of his
layered paintings, the assembly, preservation and transmission
of information are integral to his process.
The luscious greens mingling with vivid yellows, punctuated here and
there by traces
of blue, are vaguely suggestive
of landscape elements, while the evidence
of creation and destruction in the
paint layers also invites parallels with organic or natural processes.
At first it may seem like a totally blue
painting, but actually
there are many
layers of different g...
At first it may seem like a totally green
painting, but actually
there are many
layers of diff...
In order to better understand this,
there is a practice
of first
painting your image completely in grisaille and then
layering color over the top, like a glaze.
Yet
there are as many meanings to be found in a Johns
painting as there are layers of encaustic: Painting with Two Balls could also be interpreted as grappling with the macho enterprise of Abstract Expres
painting as
there are
layers of encaustic:
Painting with Two Balls could also be interpreted as grappling with the macho enterprise of Abstract Expres
Painting with Two Balls could also be interpreted as grappling with the macho enterprise
of Abstract Expressionism.
Why hasn't
there been a major New York show
of Philip Taaffe, whose
layered, richly colored
paintings are actually taking the medium
of painting in a direction it hasn't been before?