His paintings are created through a process of addition and subtraction, sometimes removing sections of paint from the canvases
surface with turpentine to leave only the faintest traces of what was there before.
Not exact matches
When injected into the oil reservoir, it mixes
with the oil and mobilizes more of it — like
turpentine cleaning paint — and then allows it to be pumped to the
surface.
Ambiguous features can morph from immense beauty into utter despair,
with hints of the eyes breaking the
surface beneath layers of paint, charcoal,
turpentine, expressive brush strokes and often physical DNA from the artists» fingertips.
Before Arshile Gorky used paints thinned
with turpentine for Abstract Expressionism's most fluid creations, he boasted of his thick
surfaces.
In a recent interview
with the Wall Street Journal, Innes explained «I make a painting and work
with the
surface, then dissolve it, taking it off
with turpentine.
Combining oil and
turpentine washes
with water - based casein, Bearden renders a rich
surface of earthy color, mottled
with crater - like ellipses that are apparently the result of the oil's resistance to water.
Rather than using paint thickly and opaquely so that it sits upon the
surface of the canvas, Frankenthaler thinned her oil paint
with turpentine to the consistency of watercolor.