His abstract paintings realised in the late 1950s and early 1960s involved a fluid application of oil paint
mixed with turpentine, a technique that he had learnt from Victor Pasmore, and these works were reminiscent of the impressionist style.
... oil paint
mixed with turpentine to, roughly, the consistency of ink, I had a similar «outpouring», though I made less than a hundred works which I call the Drunk with Turpentine series, a title that no matter how evocative, is also literal.
Using matte pigments
mixed with turpentine rather than linseed oil, Avery applied his colours in thin layers with a stiff brush, creating chromatic effects of astounding subtlety, delicacy and invention.
Not exact matches
When injected into the oil reservoir, it
mixes with the oil and mobilizes more of it — like
turpentine cleaning paint — and then allows it to be pumped to the surface.
It's never poured, I prep a tin in which I
mix up a couple of tubes of oil paint
with a lot of
turpentine, a lot or a little less depending on what I want to do.
You can almost smell the struggle inside Lehmann Maupin this month — it's
mixed liberally
with turpentine, linseed oil, and the scent of fresh paint.
In due course, this invention was applied to paint by Bocour Artists Colors, Inc. who launched a narrow range of acrylic paints in a
turpentine solution which could be
mixed with oils.
If you've ever wanted to have a go
with oils but felt the mysterious
mix of Linseed Oil and
Turpentine put you off, then this simple still life study is for you.
Mixing mostly
turpentine with my color, I wash in the rest of the image.