It's all topped off with
some palette knife work on thickly laid greens in quinacridone gold and phthalo blue that causes the stalks to layer interestingly.
I create contemporary original oil paintings, thick with texture from impasto and
palette knife work.
In her early works on paper, the Spachtelarbeit series (
palette knife works), Posenenske questions the idea of authorship, playing with ways to eliminate the subjectivity of her hand.
Not exact matches
She prefers to
work with
palette knives over brushes; likes texture and mixing mediums; loves
working spontaneously while listening to music that stirs her, and to her inner self.
«Using only
palette knives, acrylic paint and canvas, I started on a journey of creating 10 large - scale portraits using the authorized
work of National Geographic photographers Cristina Mittermeier and Martin Schoeller, along with renowned environmental photographer Art Wolfe.»
Painted with a
palette knife during a single session in the studio, the paintings juxtapose a single, highly finessed field of color against a solid, white band commonly along the bottom or outside edges of the
work.
In that period I was beginning to consider painting with oil and both Jensen's scraped,
palette knifed surfaces and the surfaces of Hartley's late
works, painterly and sculptural also, even when relatively thin, were both helpful mentors in my transition to this difficult rich medium.
His paintings employ a traditional technique used in the Chosun Dynasty (1392 — 1897) in which the pigments — in Ha's
work, the ochres and dark umbers — are pushed through the weave of the burlap and eventually linen from the opposite side, and then trowelled with a
palette knife on the frontal surface.
Painting usually on Masonite, he used a
palette knife with oil colors and often recorded colors used on the back of his
works.»
Artists
working in this style do not try to hide what was used to create the painting by smoothing out any texture or marks left in the paint by a brush or other tool such as a
palette knife.
Indeed her
works, which would be characterized abstract art rather than abstract painting, share some common ground, such as the spectacular use of colors, contrasts and shadows, the playful use of diagonals that creates a solid sense of perspective while different levels construct both volume and composition, but also the smooth way she moves from one texture to another, giving her paintings a rough surface by using colors impasto or with a
palette knife or simply by incorporating different materials.
In a significant departure from her earlier technique of gradually layering sheer washes to develop a delicate skin of color, in the
works from 1988 and 1989 Martin employed a
palette knife to spread and build a more physically tactile surface of undiluted pigment.
Building up multiple layers of oil paint as he
works, Richter mobilizes paintbrush, squeegee, scraper and
palette knife in his signature process, his wealth of experience meeting his careful deployment of chance in highly detailed and extremely complex pictures.
From large expanses of high - peaked impasto to swaths of paint which appear to have been applied with a
palette knife and delicate streams of pure liquid chroma, the incredible dexterity with which Mitchell applies paint to the surface of this
work is without parallel.
He began to use a
palette knife and polyfilla along with the paint, a
working method he employed only as long as it suited him.
After the initial grayness covers the canvas, the artist goes to
work with black and blue paint and a
palette knife, scraping away secrets.
An individual piece consists of a single thick layer of oil paint that Yossifor manipulates with a
palette knife; the
work is produced over a three - day period, while the surface is still wet.
[14] Writer B. H. Friedman recalled that his
work, now painted with brushes rather than
palette knives, «contained a luminosity and a glow of radiant light not found previously.»
This
work of art is created by applying paint with a
palette knife onto thin wooden...
Furthermore, he began
working exclusively with colors straight from the tube — smoothed out with a
palette knife to the rough side of Masonite, sometimes exploiting the effects of the white gesso ground and canvas - like texture.
All painters make a thousand decisions, step by step, as they move through their process from inspiration to the final sweep of their brush or
palette knife, but those
working representationally make those decision by responding to something in front of them, to reference materials, or to a concrete vision.
Working in diluted oils, she stains linen or paper in thin veils using a
palette knife or brushes.
Most painters
working with this method apply the color either directly from the tube, or with a
palette knife.
This
work of art is created by applying paint with a
palette knife onto thin wooden bo...
I
work with a
palette knife as I layer acrylic paints.
I was going at it with a very expressionistic
palette - to - canvas method of
working — although [I was using] a
knife and not a brush — and layering transparent materials to create other colors.
Talking about his
work, Richard said: «I always strive to create an atmosphere in whatever I produce, at the highest possible quality and using a
knife, brush, canvas and a very limited colour
palette of oil paint or pastels, usually alla prima, mixing only on the canvas.»
A single sketch would take him approximately two hours (as we are informed by notes on the back of one of the
works), and would be made on paper pinned into the lid of his painting box — also on show in the gallery — which contained bladders of pigments, brushes, rags, a
palette knife and a variety of strengthened laminated papers, prepared with a range of coloured backgrounds.»
Forsaking paintbrushes and
palette knives, Scott captures immense detail and a charming vibrancy by
working with her hands directly on to the canvas.
Where many modern artists who
worked with thick paint, tended to scrape back the paint to the bare canvas, Stael just continued adding layers with a brush or
palette knife.
Ferris uses several main techniques in her
work, including spray guns, chunky paint applied with
palette knives, and most recently the application of oil and pigments to the canvas using her own body.
I have drawn the figure from life and the plein air landscape for many years,
working in multiple media (graphite, charcoal, reed pen, silverpoint, watercolor, pastel, oil
palette knife on shingles) and monotypes, usually creating
work in a series.
Included in one of Gaitonde's earliest New York exhibitions in the 1960s, this
work captures a pivotal moment in the artist's career when he turned away from his earlier geometric
works and began to experiment with using a paint roller and
palette knife.
While she has made colourful abstract
works using the traditional medium of watercolour on paper, she has also applied her distinctive
palette of muted greens, ochre tones and bright sherbets to a wide array of everyday, found objects such as hammers, bottles,
knives, chairs, twigs, mobile phones and fragments of clothing.
In it one saw the artist
working on a large canvas — splashing, swabbing, attacking it with a
palette knife.
Seeking to express the full energy of life and harness in her powerful gestures an intense spiritual force, Letendre
worked with various materials including oils, pastels, and acrylics, using her hands,
palette knife, brushes and uniquely the airbrush, which she began using in 1971.
Working from these images, with brush and
palette knife, she
works wet - on - wet creating a kind of sculptural space where paint sits upon paint in one uniform layer.
Ms. Gechtoff started
working with the
palette knife.
Ms. Gechtoff
working on a painting with a
palette knife in her Canal Street studio in Manhattan in the early 1960s.
In addition to her choice of color, the deliberate quality of Rodriquez» brushstroke and
palette knife is an important gestural aspect of her
work.
(1) In his student
works from these years, Stella often imitated Morgan's technique of laying on paint with a
palette knife, scraping the pigments over boards that had been shellacked.
When she returned to painting after a five - year break, Fishman used a
palette knife to create highly tactile
works.
The early Spachtelarbeiten (
palette -
knife works) and Rasterbilder (Grids), executed in oil or casein paint on fibreboard and paper, were created between 1956 and 1960.
This encaustic medium, once manipulated by the deft touches of Marden's
palette knife, yielded a sculptural nuance to the surface of the
work.
Some masterfully painted gestural drawings and
palette -
knife works followed, partly painted plein - air in her native Taunus mountains.
First he gave up
working with the brush, applying paint with only a
palette knife.
Charlotte Posenenske, Spachtelarbeit [
Palette -
knife work], 1959/1960 acrylic on hard fiber mounted on masonite (21 5/8 x 25 5/9 inches)(image www.peterfreemaninc.com)
Whilst Tompkins makes colourful abstract
works using the traditional medium of watercolour on paper, she also applies her distinctive
palette of muted greens, ochre tones and bright sherbets to a wide array of everyday, found objects such as hammers, bottles,
knives, chairs, twigs, mobile phones and fragments of clothing.
Usually painting on Masonite, he used a
palette knife with oil colors and often recorded the colors he used on the back of his
works.
That is evident in her «Spachtelarbeit» [
Palette -
knife Works] in which she used that tool to avoid the hand - drawn, subjective traces of a brush stroke, and in her «Rasterbild» [Grids], in which various types of marks were rapidly repeated, laid out in skewed lines.