Sentences with phrase «pigments with turpentine»

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Ms. Steir's use of runny paint — a mixture that is probably nine parts turpentine to one part pigment — helps us link the work with waterfalls or rainstorms or vistas consumed by mist.

He also arranged for Noland and Louis to visit Helen Frankenthaler's New York studio in 1953, where they were introduced to her method of soaking turpentine - thinned oil pigment into unsized, unprimed canvas (a technique Frankenthaler herself had learned from Pollack's 1951 black - and - while stain paintings made with thinned black enamel paint).

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.

The artist then removes a section of this layer using turpentine to reveal the constituent colours beneath, and the residue of this process stains the canvas with veils of pigment.

Using a restricted palette, Yun applied layers of pigment to raw canvas in vertical or horizontal bands interspersed with blank space; working on his studio floor, he diluted the paint with turpentine so that it would gradually bleed into the support.