Sentences with phrase «making small oil paintings»

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Most of that space is a gravelled central courtyard with cute elephant statues painted as comic book characters, as well as seating for dining and relaxing and small tables made from empty oil drums painted with national flags.

The small planets are made with paint mixed with rapeseed oil.»

Within a few years the materiality of oil paint takes on a more central role in his work when he begins to make paintings by depositing small amounts of liquid paint onto his canvases and tilting them this way and that to direct the paint toward the edges of some feint pencil markings.

To make one of his large works, Katz paints a small oil sketch of a subject on a masonite board; the sitting might take an hour and a half.

From New York City, Liam Everett makes small and medium size paintings that explore the disparate imagery that appears to him as he's in the act of working the oil paint into the canvas.

«Within Dodge's large oil - on - canvas paintings, many smaller «paintings» seem to jostle together, making room for themselves within the greater composition.

In the crawlspace closest to the stairs, Messenger of the potato, a small sculpture made of wax, stick, and oil paint, strikes a pose with its legs casually crossed and one arm in the air to beckon the viewer forward.

One piece that especially stood out — a large work made up of twenty white paper squares divided by a thin wooden frame on which much smaller squares and rectangles painted in oil had been arbitrarily placed — is a visual testimony to the love of music and poetry that informs the creative work of this painter.

His nudes, on the other hand, reveal echoes of the past, as can be seen in the small series made in 1997 which comes back to life in the rectangular outlines of a canvas and in the change of technique to oil painting.

I also made a lot of very small square oil - on - wood paintings, and again, the markmaking went from loose grids to the point where I started leaving the verticals out.

In contact with nature he made several small oil paintings that he turned into large - format works in his studio back in New York.

Made from a thick aluminum slab, the small rectangular piece depicts a satellite in oil paint on the front, while the back holds a transparent reliquary specifically designed to display his grandfather's wedding ring.

Young São Paulo - based painter Lucas Arruda has made quite an impact with his small and systematic oil paintings which conjure atmospheric — indeed, romantic and panoramic — landscapes from the very verge of abstraction.

Particularly notable: a small sketch made with oil crayon in 1953 (Sand, Sea & Sky), revealed as inspiration for two 1958 paintings that also picture three - part seascapes depicting the horizon, ocean, and shore.

Amy Sillman «s newest work includes high and low, fast and slow, large and small, and ranges across mediums, from large - scale oil paintings to a 7 - minute digital animation and several hundred inkjet prints made from stills of the animation.

These spiky constructions — which are like abstract root systems — were inspired by nature, as were the artworks Asawa made while a student at Black Mountain: small oil paintings on paper, a potato print, a work in ink on paper made with a BMC (Black Mountain College) laundry stamp.

Brandon Opalka will show a series of small abstract paintings made with oil and spray paint.

Like the title, the five large paintings and several smaller pieces, made with oil paint on linen, play with perception through form and color.

Organized by Barbara O'Brien, chief curator at the Kemper Museum for Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Mo., where it was first shown last year, this exhibition covers 55 years with 46 paintings, supplemented by a dozen of the small, deft oil studies that Ms. Dodd began making on thin sheets of aluminum in 1990.

Working in oil on small pieces of canvas board near the waters and harbors of Manhattan, John Marin (1870 - 1953) was possibly the first American artist to make abstract paintings.

Alex Katz Seeing Drawing, Making, [34] published in 2008, describes Katz's multiple - stage process of first producing charcoal drawings, small oil studies, and large cartoons for placing the image on the canvas and the final painting of the canvas.

A solo show by Gianni Politi organised by Galleria Lorcan O'Neill (Rome), a re-presentation of the works the artist produced for his first solo show at the gallery, which included three types of work: abstract paintings made using scraps of canvas with acrylic, oil and household paint; small portraits on canvas; and bronze stretchers of varying sizes realized with multi-coloured patinas, marble and painted wood inserts.

Politi will show abstract paintings made using scraps of canvas with acrylic, oil and household paint and small portraits on canvas, freely interpreting and transfiguring Modern Italian art.

Thomas Nozkowski at PaceWildenstein (25th Street) 534 West 25th Street April 4 — May 3, 2008 Thomas Nozkowski (one of my favorite painters) makes solely small scale paintings in oil,...

The jewel - like small paintings in oil on aluminum make up a 1999 series designated «858» in the artist's cataloging system.

Here, natural light makes the six small oil on cotton canvas paintings (2010 -» 11) in the gallery's front room incandescent

I'm working on two main bodies of work — smaller oil paintings on linen and three - dimensional constructions made from the remnants of the painting process and other debris.

Here, natural light makes the six small oil on cotton canvas paintings (2010 -» 11) in the gallery's front room incandescent and entirely immersive.

She picked up this other smaller companion oil painting for the little nook going into their bedroom and they both make a nice statement.