His artistic process entails using red clay to silkscreen
photographic portraits onto meticulously arranged salt - covered surfaces.
Using his now - familiar method of transposing
photographic portraits onto canvas with a polychromatic grid, Close's recent paintings have matured to the extent that each two - inch square is an independent abstract painting worthy
Not exact matches
Pile
onto John Chamberlain's couch and create ekphrastic poetry in response to Chamberlain's intuitive, colorful, and humorous
photographic series that Chamberlain once described as «self
portraits of the nervous system».
The self -
portraits are also based on
photographic images that have been screenprinted
onto canvas; in both groups of paintings, the varying tones of black, gray, and brown enamel are often overprinted several times, simultaneously accentuating and obliterating the contours of the source imagery.
Some of his celebrity
portraits were first «under - painted» by tracing simple outlines of the
photographic image
onto the canvas and painted in blocks of color.