She works in a combination of paper collage, text and
thin layers of acrylic paint.
Not exact matches
For the past few years, Farber has been making
paintings comprised
of multiple
thin layers of clear
acrylic pouring medium.
Relying on the
thinner quality
of acrylic paint compared to oil, Nara creates each
painting by adding and removing pigment until he reaches his desired effect: a canvas made up
of suspended hues that allows the figure to emerge through
layers of color, inviting the viewer to stand still and enter a moment
of contemplation.
The
painting process reveals itself as images and elements are
layered with
thin washes
of oil and
acrylic paint on wood panels.
Unlike the surfaces
of earlier
paintings, in which
thin layers of rolled
acrylic paint constituted the backgrounds onto which black pixelated images were silkscreened, the backgrounds
of the Shadows canvases were
painted with a sponge mop, whose streaks and trails add «gesture» to the picture plane.
Until the mid-1950s, her
paintings were almost wholly representational, but thereafter she turned to abstract art and within a decade had discovered her signature style - a square monochrome canvas, typically
layered with gesso, overlaid with hand - drawn pencil lines and
thin layers of oil or
acrylic paint.
Working in the glazing technique, the
paintings are developed through numerous translucent
layers of pigment suspended in
thin acrylic layers which creates an environment
of diffused light that remains minimal and abstract.
One
of Ireland's most respected exponents
of abstract art, his
paintings are carefully built up in
layers of thin colour with stone powder ground into the
acrylic.
The technicolor figures pop off the Belgian canvases - a combination
of a clear gesso base, sprayed
acrylic under
paint, and
thin layers of oil
paint on top.
Typically composed
of thin layers of acrylic and oil
paint on panel board, her
paintings employ a broad range
of techniques, deftly shifting between stark graphic lines to loose washes and thickly rendered brushstrokes.