Not exact matches
I set out a selection
of colours that could be mixed into rock
sort of colours, so browns, black, white and different greens, and then provided 1
paint brush.
I find chalk
paint difficult to get really smooth as it's
sort of meant to show the
brush strokes to look more rustic.
The former is incredibly varied and clever, featuring everything from standard guns, to buckets,
paint rollers,
brushes, sniper riffles, and more, each having a sub-weapon (different
sorts of bombs) and a special attack (including a team - wide shield and a jet - pack) which can be activated whenever a gauge is filled up.
17 In mid-century France, as in 17th - century Holland, there was a tendency for artists to attempt to achieve some
sort of security in a shaky market situation by specializing, by making a career out
of a specific subject: animal
painting was a very popular field, as the Whites point out, and Rosa Bonheur was no doubt its most accomplished and successful practitioner, followed in popularity only by the Barbizon painter Troyon (who at one time was so pressed for his
paintings of cows that he hired another artist to
brush in the backgrounds).
He uses knives, scissors, door hinges,
paint brushes, cork screws, zippers, and all
sorts of other household items to create little people and animals.
I associate this banded - brushstroke technique with Howard Hodgkin, who has for many years made occasional use
of a rougher
sort of proto - gradient, loading his
brushes with multiple colors and laying in blunt and / or sensuous strokes
of thick, multicolored
paint.
I wanted to
paint with a
brush and at the same time do something really fucked up and try to find some
sort of balance in terms
of making it not about a place but about a thing.
These works, although
painted with small
brushes using ink and gouache, mirror the aesthetic
of etchings and serve as a
sort of re-written history.
Much
of his work is gestural, evoking a
sort of performance art
of brush and
paint on paper without ever actually using a
brush.
These city
paintings, many
of them
of the city's main bridges, share commonalities with the funky return to representation and figuration via a meld
of loose abstract expressionist
brush strokes and
paint application — lots
of scumbling and blobs
of paint — and a
sort of ecstatic folk primitivism adopted by his contemporary and friends in New York in the mid to late 50s, such as Red Grooms, Robert Beauchamp, Gandy Brodie, Mimi Gross, Jan Müller, and Claes Oldenburg (with Eva Hesse picking up the tradition in the mid-60s).
Any idea if this is common, if it could be from spray -
paint gone bad, and what
sort of brushed - on
paint would be a cheap and better option for my tabletop?
For some
of you, those who are brave with
paint and
brushes and haphazardly throwing them together, this post may seem tedious... but for those who are rule followers,
paint - by - number
sorts of folks, I hope the following emboldens you to try your hand at some creative «antique» finishes.
Therefore, I ordered these in a
sort of brushed bronze finish and spray
painted them with Rustoleum flat white
paint.
To achieve this look, you must slightly dip the bristle ends
of your
brush into the
paint (use an old
brush), then dab the
brush onto the
paint can lid or some
sort of surface to remove any access
paint.
Once the
paint was dry I taped off the decorative applique (see below) and
sort of feather dusted on the gold (which is actually a gilding wax) with a small soft artists
brush.