Sentences with phrase «thin paint washes»

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She builds up her paintings with thin washes and layers.

In other works, the paint is sheer and thin, like a wash.

For opaque colours this can be painted as thickly as you like, but for the purple freesias a very thin wash is needed.

Acrylic artist paints can be thinned with water and used as washes in the manner of watercolor paints, although the washes are fast and permanent once dry.

Where Pollock had used enamel that rested on raw canvas like skin, Ms. Frankenthaler poured turpentine - thinned paint in watery washes onto the raw canvas so that it soaked into the fabric weave, becoming one with it.

Back in the sixties, Morris Louis developed an innovative method of painting by «staining» his unprimed canvases with thinned washes of acrylic pigments, and was one of the... read more... «Morris Louis unveiled»

Rather, the space is lit by diffused natural light, which intensifies the intimacy of looking at Martin's painting: the subtle variations of the pencil lines, the thin washes and layers of paint that seem to sit on the surfaces of stretched canvas.

He painted in thin, layered washes of color that seemed to glow from within, and his large - scale canvases were intended to be seen at close range, to that the viewer would feel engulfed by them.

In her paintings colour is poured, sprayed and painted with brushes on the surface in very thin washes.

Based loosely on photographs of women sourced from fashion magazines, photo albums, pornography, and elsewhere, Joffe's paintings — juxtaposing thin, dripping washes with thicker oily passages — explore the notion that all appearances and images, regardless of how off - hand they may seem, are carefully planned and constructed.

Instead of Dingle's typical palette of blue, sepia and grey, these compositions are rendered in a sugar sweet mélange of pastel yellows, ochres, greens and blues in a fanciful layering of both thin washes and sweeping, buttery strokes of oil paint à la Wayne Thiebaud.

The «Wood Grain» and «Carpet» paintings have more muted though still very textured surfaces: The former are painted with thin washes of acrylic paint to create trompe l'oeil effects, while the latter are pieces of real plush carpet

The multicolored stripes across the bottom are present, while the upper two - thirds is cluttered with newspaper, scraps of fabric, and thin washes and patches of paint.

It was from Avery that Rothko and Newman learned the technique of washing thin paint onto large areas of single color.

She has never stopped painting, always abstracting from fruit stands or saints or museum masterpieces, trying out thin washes, sweeping brushstrokes, expressive drawing masked by repetitive drips.

Back in her studio, she experimented with thinning and pouring different hues, using oil paint to create watercolor - like washes.

Their vibrant palette greens, blues, pinks, yellows and reds applied with alternating heavy impasto brushstrokes and thin washes of oil paint — create canvases bursting with visual excitement.

Something about aluminum as a painting surface is suited to the kind of abstract painting Solomon does: energetic, hastily applied brushwork that is thick in some places and as thin as a wash in others.

Very little of the slender lines of collage, delicate papers built up in thin layers or washes of paint almost completely sanded away is apparent in reproduction.

My favorite piece was Chrystie 31, a more challenging oil on paper that returns to Johns and Motherwell, with a substantial corner of a blue rectangle balancing a sweeping light figure in thin paint, wash upon wash that takes the tone down to near the paper's white.

The painting process reveals itself as images and elements are layered with thin washes of oil and acrylic paint on wood panels.

Rather, he applies multiple thin washes of paint in each cell of the grid, layering red, yellow and blue until they accumulate into extravagant full - color images.»

Using a mix of bright colors and more muted tones, as well as thin washes and thick layers of paint, Youngblood builds up complex, spatially ambiguous surfaces that in her words «mimic objects, materials, and things from the real world.»

The ever - present coarse weave of the canvas absorbed Chase's thin washes of paint, resulting in a blurred image.

Turpentine not only thins the oil, but speeds up the drying time, which is great when we're color - washing immediately before painting.

But his images, while legible, relied on a highly abstract repertory of quick dabs, thick swaths and thin washes of paint.

That year, they visited New York and saw Helen Frankenthaler's «Mountains and Sea,» in which she had poured thin washes of paint over an untreated canvas.

Then brushes on a thin wash of transparent white, which partially obscures this under - painting.

His dark and ephemeral compositions, realized through thin layers of imprimatura washes, call to mind the eloquent empty spaces of the Hasegawa school of painting.

In the painting, «Untitled» (c. 1995), which is unlike anything else in the show, Clark mostly uses thin washes of paint.

Flat geometric bars or grids, often drawn in pencil on 6 - foot square canvases, are washed in thin oil paint.

Using black ink, anthracite charcoals and thin washes of fresh, dancing colour, François Pont's engravings / paintings offer a sense of space and rhythm in the landscape — valleys, mountains, lagoons, crossings, openings, passages and regeneration.

His mature style is narrow but intense: water and dirt are invoked through washes of ultramarine blue and burnt umber which combine to form a glowering near - black and bleed out at the edge of geometric forms, generating a trembling beauty due to the differential absorption of the various layers of thinned paint.

She gained fame with her invention of the color - stain technique — applying thin washes of paint to unprimed canvas — in her iconic Mountains and Sea (1952), a motivating work for Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and other Color Field painters who emerged in the»60s.

But we soon find ourselves seduced by paint applications, from bold swipes to thin washes; by rich color, coiling lines, rhythmically stabbed pat - terns, drips and much, much more, all in the service of unpredictable shapes.

Even her grid paintings, layered with thin washes of paint, never thirst for more.

Using industrial paint on perforated steel panels, Boyce applies a standardised RAL colour on each and builds the paint up in thin washes.

Agnes Martin is primarily known for her minimalist grid paintings that turn hand - drawn pencil lines and thin washes of paint into luminous moments of transcendence.

Whether soft, thick grids of viscous paint lines or bare scratches in thin washes, Whitten's work is defiantly crisp.

This began around 1939, when World War II drove Surrealist artists to New York, among the first to arrive being Matta, from whom Gorky learned to thin his paint to a wash and to loosen up his hand.

The haunting and distorted faces and bodies of her figures are a product of her use of thinned down paint, wiping the pigment away from the canvas to create the washed out, smudged figures that are characteristic of her work.

His watercolours have a delicate soft and smooth surface and are often painted onto Chinese papers, in thin washes that build up a subtle muted palette.

In contrast to Frecon and Dickinson, Zurier applies his paint in the consistency of a thin wash that registers every stroke and pat of the brush.

In the 1970s and 80s, painters liked revealing their process by leaving earlier stages of the paintings visible through the thin washes of paint.

Almost monochromatic, his paintings have highly finished surfaces achieved through meticulously applied thin washes of paint.

During the mid 1960s Hoyland developed a method of applying thin washes of paint to the canvas which resulted in some areas appearing watery and translucent.

Once the gesso has dried, he uses a palette knife to apply a thin layer of oil paint, building up the layers in certain places, and leaving other places with only a thin wash of color.

These paintings while still fully within the style of Close, represent a new direction in the artist's practice as «he applies multiple thin washes of paint in each cell of the grid, layering red, yellow and blue until they accumulate into extravagant full - color images.»

For Louis, the Veil paintings represented a complete artistic breakthrough; fluid waves of pigment wash over the canvas surface, as Greenberg describes how, «Louis spills his paint on unsized and unprimed cotton duck canvas, leaving the pigment almost everywhere thin enough, no matter how many different veils of it are superimposed, for the eye to sense the threadedness and wovenness of the fabric underneath.

She thinned her paints with turpentine and applied washes of color onto unprimed canvas.