"Linen canvas" refers to a strong and durable fabric made from flax plant fibers, which is commonly used as a surface for painting or creating art.
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thick linen canvas, a mix of pigment, wood pulp and natural fibers creates a three - dimensional work that appears to explode from its support.
«New Day» is a large scale lyrical abstract expressionist painting on
linen canvas by top - selling Chairish artist, Trixie Pitts.
oil paint and vinyl on stretched
raw linen canvas, 62-3/4 x 62-5/8» (159.4 x 159 cm) © 2018 Robert Ryman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Lisa Anne Auerbach, Resolution Revolution, 2011, Merino wool stitched
onto linen canvas, 63 x 80 inches; Courtesy the artist and Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach.
The fabrics from top to bottom were: Ralph Lauren Emil Stripe in Shirting Blue, Robert Allen
Linen Canvas in Dove Grey and Ice, Ralph Lauren Birchwood Stripe in Natural, and Robert Allen Inman Square in Navy.
«Little Gardener» is a fun upbeat abstract oil painting on
Belgian linen canvas by one of Chairish's top - selling artists, Trixie Pitts.
Untitled (Winsor), 1966, Winsor White oil paint on stretched
sized linen canvas, 193 x 193 x 8.4 cm, Private Collection, Courtesy Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zürich, © Robert Ryman
Peplum III (Tweed), 2014, MDF, oil stain, spunbond polyester,
gessoed linen canvas, coloured pencil, crayon, 106 x 48 x 28 cm.
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Botanical linen canvas Cherry and Sunflower PRINTS (mounted on wooden dowels), The Evolution Store, $ 219 US each.
HIGH: Botanical
linen canvas Cherry and Sunflower PRINTS (mounted on wooden dowels), The Evolution Store, $ 219 US each.
Benny Andrews (1930 - 2006) Circle (The Bicentennial Series), 1973 oil on twelve
linen canvases with painted fabric and mixed media collage 120» x 288»
And the paintings I've been making lately are on
woven linen canvas, smearing and mixing pigment with my hands on the front and on the back, then puncturing the surface with a serrated, edged tool and pushing it through to reveal the fraying, the broken threads, which are beautiful.
Ten unframed, two - metre - tall
linen canvases hanging irregularly around the space break with the set's scale and landscape.
Gracie & Sam: a Half Buckle Cotton Mei Tai with Harry Potter Spells Cotton -
Linen Canvas print, $ 102 value
This collaboration with Los Angeles artist Mary Matson adds some serious cool factor to your go - to
linen canvas shoes with this too - cute - for - words fish motif.
Though this particular painting is on wood panel, it could just as well have been on cotton or
linen canvas thus showing that the truth of the matter is that no matter the slightness or grandness of a picture, it is enacted on a mere piece of humble cloth.
Employing oil paints on mostly raw, large -
scaled linen canvases, Pan deftly punctuates the canvas with splotches of thick, textured brushstrokes of varying shapes and colors, layering paint over paint.
Sometimes knitted string is imbedded in the paintings as a way of creating webs that suggest the weave of a
traditional linen canvas or a glitch in a regular grid.
Ruth Laskey
produces linen canvases that she dyes and weaves herself, thread by thread: painting - like objects that take to the limit the early minimalist ambition to equate pattern and structure.
McKeown was born in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland and was originally trained in textiles before becoming an artist, a background that remained fundamental to his paintings, both in the visible presence of the
unprimed linen canvas in his paintings» surfaces, and in the slow and meticulous layering of washes of colour which lend them an astounding depth.
This work is painted on heavy weight Holncorp
Gallery linen canvas and has been sealed with varnish.
Nude is painted over a moderately thick off - white ground on a commercially
primed linen canvas.
Geometry, ridges, and breaks in monochromatic planes are the result of the artist repeatedly stretching, painting, un-stretching, and
re-stretching linen canvas on differently - scaled bars.
«In The Rockies» is a large minimalist abstract landscape oil painting on
fine linen canvas by one of Chairish's top - selling artists, Trixie Pitts.
An original signed oil on
linen canvas by English artist Christopher Stone (1933 --RRB- titled «The Wyndham Sisters», 2017.
With the prevalent use
of linen canvases, the artist manually intervenes with absolute accuracy and an attentive visual slightness.
Video 55:20 If you have ever wondered how the old masters primed their
raw linen canvas, you'll enjoy watching Sherrie create the most amazing painting surface...
JK: Images always start on a computer screen, and then projected
onto linen canvas and drawn and painted, first with brushes and then an airbrush.
«Vineyard, Clos de Bez» is a large abstract landscape oil painting on fine
Belgian linen canvas by one of Chairish's top selling artists, Trixie Pitts.
Robert Ryman (b. 1930) Untitled signed «RYMAN» (lower right); signed again «RYMAN» (on the overlap) oil on stretched
sized linen canvas 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in.
Diane Simpson Peplum III (tweed) 2014 MDF, oil stain, spunbond polyester,
gessoed linen canvas, coloured pencil, crayon 106.6 x 48.2 x 27.9 cm / 42 x 19 x 11 in
When I use malachite and lapis pigments mixed in glue - size and scraped into a
coarse linen canvas, I can't help but see them as inert substances but also simultaneously as the dusk of Iceland and the atmosphere in the cloister of San Marco in Florence.
Bridge was begun directly on an
unstretched linen canvas 90 inches high by 80 inches wide, and stapled to her studio wall.
Finally, farthest back, there's a
stretched linen canvas of the same dimensions on which the outlines of the facade are delineated in pencil.
BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS (1945 - 2017), «Tuff Tony,» 1978 (oil and acrylic on
linen canvas,).
Lot 3: EDWARD M. BANNISTER (1828 — 1901), «Untitled (Cow Herd in Pastoral Landscape),» 1877 (oil on
linen canvas).
TOP IMAGE: BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS, «Slick (Self - Portrait),» 1977 (oil, acrylic, and magna on
linen canvas).