Sentences with phrase «of turpentine»

The pigment is applied to the paper in thick layers, mixed with small amounts of turpentine, and varnish is finally added, a little at a time.

Oil cons: The smell of turpentine If your start painting with oils in a confined space the fumes from the thinners can overwhelm you, turpentine and white spirit can be really strong.

I used a solution of 1 pea of magenta, 1/2 a pea of phthalo blue, and about 2 egg cups of turpentine.

Jelly jars of turpentine with brushes soaking in them on the coffee table.

His paintings emerge not only from the application of paint but from its removal with washes of turpentine which results in meditative, highly atmospheric abstract works.

Be careful of any wet oil paint; it is fine to go over onto the blue background as the dark bleeding of the turpentine will disappear once it has evaporated.

The new odor, a commingling of the vapors of turpentine, rotten eggs and old oysters, comes from dimethyl sulfoxide, better known as DMSO, the controversial and often illegally used drug hailed by a growing legion of amateur and professional athletes who view it as a panacea for many ills ranging from sprained ankles to tendinitis and ripped muscles.

Commercial vapor rubs are typically petroleum based and add camphor which has been synthetically derived from the oil of turpentine and menthol, which is typically synthetically made.

Mix to taste, and then add an eggcup of turpentine.

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.

At MASS MoCA — in her first solo museum exhibition — Hamilton presents an ensemble of old and new works, including a new installation that looks to the legacy of the turpentine industry.

Their yurts reeked of turpentine and basil, and wood smoke too.

These have become the tools of his trade along with acrylics, oils, the fumes of turpentine, stretched canvases and collage.

(The American painter Morris Louis had died of lung cancer in 1962; his friend, Kenneth Noland, described his studio as «a furnace of turpentine.»)

The acute inferiority engendered by the achievements of European modernism elicited an overweening, chip - on - the - shoulder mien to Ab - Ex pronunciamentos — as if the cosmos shifted every time Mark Rothko went to the hardware store to buy a gallon of turpentine.

Black and white, enamel on linen, a bit of turpentine or solvent, and no recognizable imagery allowed.

Between heavily painted eyelashes and raven - black oil paint, between trickles of turpentine and tears of despair.

The artist occupies Pivô's ground floor with a series of sculptures made of brass, lead and rosin — the residual vegetable resin obtained after the distillation of turpentine.

He spritzes a mixture of turpentine and oil on the plate to create dazzling light effects.

Instead of trying to depict his inner thoughts and feelings, he developed a painstaking process of applying paint to his prepared surfaces, before removing areas of that paint by the use of turpentine.

In her Waterfall paintings, Steir limits herself to controlling a few key variables: colour, pressure, the length of her lines, and the viscosity of the turpentine and oil paint mix.

He also backs provocative theater; recently, playwright Ray Owen's «Bleeding Pines of Turpentine.»

She had to add a large amount of turpentine to oil paint in order to give it the viscosity she wanted.

Many of the gallery's artists are influenced by Asian art which so often employs pine tree imagery, and then there is old fashioned fragrance of art, the smell of Turpentine.

In matters of personal taste, there is no right or wrong, so if erasing brain cells is your idea of a good time, That's My Boy could be your cup of turpentine.

Innes has probably become best known for his Exposed Paintings series — made by layering pigments onto the canvas and then removing the oil paint with washes of turpentine — though this concern for the processes of painting, and un — painting, is shared by his Agitated Verticals, Resonance, Isolated Forms, and Monologue works.

The pigment is not painted within the outlines of the shape; instead it is layered thickly on to the paper, mixing in small amounts of turpentine, and then adding varnish little by little in a laborious process which lends physicality and depth to the two - dimensional works.

Louis thinned the Magna paint with large amounts of turpentine, allowing it to flow effortlessly over the surface of the canvas; with each layer the pigments can be seen in their purest form.

I have been painting with oils since I was a child and now I'm considering to switch to acrylics due to the smell of turpentine... it gives me such headaches!