Sentences with phrase «successive layers of paint»

Approaches to oil painting techniques include indirect painting, whereby successive layers of paint are added to build up a painting's surface, as well as «wet into wet,» which involves blending wet paint directly on the canvas and is closely associated with alla prima painting.

Successive layers of paint define a shallow but active space.

Successive layers of paint on my large paintings become infinite points of textural highlights and are the unintentional result of the process of untold marks.

Having gotten rid of some of the distractions that usually appear at the beginning of every young artist's career (as he called it «the mystique of action painting, the pathos»), every one of his paintings records the history of its production, visible through the thickness of the successive layers of paint.

The painting presented in the exhibition, Reverse Quadchrome (RGB) is the result of an almost blind protocol: after painting the canvas on the floor with three successive layers of paint, red, green, blue, the three colors were mixed then applied in a final layer of black color, producing a subtractive addition.

His paintings commonly featured layered surfaces sometimes involving up to thirty successive layers of paint, which according to the artist, «frees the paint from its support enabling it to become an independent surface».