Using white
pastel on black paper, the artist chooses to pick out the light in each composition, rather than beginning with white and working in the shade.
Not only is the ink smooth and bright but it's also so bold that you can even use some of the lighter colors to
write on black paper!
«It looked like you'd dumped a bunch of
salt on black paper,» she says, still in awe of the picture.
Matthew Barney KHU: Djed, 2011 Brush and ink, gold leaf, iron, and lapis lazuli
on black paper in polyethylene frame 12 3/4 x 10 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches (32.4 x 27.3 x 3.2 cm) Private collection Copyright Matthew Barney Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels
«Each unique part of the country would spark an idea for a different art lesson — anything from Native American weaving and designs, to chalk drawings of bright colored
lights on black paper (an idea from Carlsbad Caverns), to sculpture made completely out of corn,» reports Wallace.
Untitled [Comme des Garçons collage], 1980, collage of twelve [12], gelatin silver
prints on black paper fastened to handmade paper with t - pins
A larger piece from 1998,
created on black paper in pastel and colored pencil, appears from a distance to be a perfectly innocuous underwater garden.
Inverse Tonal Drawing: In this workshop we will invert the usual tonal relationship in drawing by using white
conte on black paper.
This 1973 pastel and colored
pencil on black paper drawing is by San Francisco artist Michael di Cosola (1929 - 2010).
These large paintings were
made on black paper through the use of a technique similar to transfer lithography, producing delicately branching pink and white negative spaces.
Estimate $ 1,000 - 2,000 crease to the upper right corner,
pasted on a black paper support, exhibition brochure available.
White
text on black paper: I almost feel like breaking out a headband and neon clothing to discuss this while listening to a Poison record.
Clarkson chooses to depict the contrasts of light and shade in the natural world using white
pastel on black paper.
That same year,
on black paper, Ossorio painted Couple and Progeny.
Compositions on white paper seem gently washed with faint shadows, while
those on black paper are inhabited by cloudlike presences made of traceries of white filigree lines.
Pastel
on black paper, 120» x 156», 2013.
Pastel
on black paper, 80 x 288 inches, 2015.
on black paper, also lovely small papers with nubby surfaces and fine line work, again perfect art for contemporary interiors.