Sentences with phrase «surface with turpentine»

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.

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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.
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