Both of these disadvantages are due to the very fast drying
time of acrylic paint.
Not exact matches
After
painting large - scale,
acrylic pieces for a couple
of decades, the inspiration,
time, and effort required to show up to this particular flavor
of creative expression has felt increasingly harder to access lately.
But this
time on one
of my Christmas orders, I used an
acrylic (really flat)
paint for my base and the oil for the lettering... then clear wax!
I gave the board two coats
of acrylic paint, with about 30 minutes
of drying
time in between.
-LCB- And if you're using
acrylic paint for your project, give the jars 24 hours dry
time between coats
of paint; otherwise when you apply the second coat it might peel off some
of the first coat
paint -RCB-
I have a wonderful wife, and plenty
of time on my hands, so I am back
painting, mostly in watercolour and some
acrylic, I have had a short 20 week course in watercolours but that is all, now I have sold a few pieces
of my work on EBAY under my name
of robertgasser55 but only really for a few pounds at a
time.
This came just in
time too, where I have invented an incredible 3D crinkled poppy out
of thick
acrylic paint and can use the technique email one totally, and being part
of a flower group's contest gave me incentive to make them.
Terry now spends much
of his
time travelling up and down the country demonstrating to Art societies and clubs as well as various Art Shows, and has also begun to hold watercolour
painting and
acrylic painting workshops in the US.
Color field, curiously enough or perhaps not, became a viable way
of painting at exactly the
time that
acrylic paint, the new plastic
paint, came into being.
For his third solo exhibition at CB1 Gallery, we are pleased to present
Of Our Time, Osvaldo Trujillo's exhibition of painted and laser cut acryli
Of Our
Time, Osvaldo Trujillo's exhibition
of painted and laser cut acryli
of painted and laser cut
acrylic.
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Painting, Gold Chain, 2014, 14 × 11 in.,
acrylic and screenprint on canvas Just in
time for the Fall auctions, greg.org is pleased to present more @TheRealHennessy Tweet
paintings, inspired by Donelle Woolford's Dick Joke series which debuted at John McWhinnie in the 1990s, and which continue to be a source
of brouhaha since Michelle Grabner's 2014 Whitney Biennial.
As you may already know, Helen Frankenthaler was a pioneer
of another technique called Color Fielding — a form
of non-objective
painting, that allowed for thinned - out oil or
acrylic pigment to be applied, often
times poured and spread, directly onto the unprimed canvas.
Kelly switched to
acrylic paint in the early 1970s, changing to a simplified geometric style comparable to some
of the minimalist works popular at that
time.
For her elegant exhibition «
Time Being,» abstract artist Sky Pape created expressive works on paper using a combination
of Sumi ink, water, gouache, and Flashe
acrylic paint, applied with homemade brushes and palm fronds.
Terry has been
painting for many years using watercolour and
acrylics and over that
time he has amassed a variety
of painting techniques and skills.
Since 2004 Muller has also poked fun at identity - definition and categorization in his
acrylic star
paintings of genre headings as they appear in magazines like The New Yorker,
Time Out, and New York
Times.
This application gave something
of the effect
of acrylic paint stained into raw canvas, a method
of application that was common at the
time.
His
painted photographic prints combine airbrushed
acrylic paint and abstract photographs while cleverly incorporating external elements such as variations
of light, space, and
time, with the intention to raise questions about perception and how we relate to various media.
In her wall works, many
of which play, sleight -
of - hand - style, with the shifts between two - to three - dimensionality — inviting the viewer to enter their world while at the same
time sealing themselves off from engagement — Rafferty prints photographic imagery on thin, clear film, often mixed with
paint and solvents, and attaches these to irregularly rectangular clear
acrylic sheets.
By layering varied imagery through drawing,
painting, and collaging sheets
of acrylic paint a sense
of fragmented
time emerges.
Deriving from a traditional practice, Wang produces his Coffin
paintings by working with his canvas resting flat on the studio floor, systematically applying layers
of acrylic paint in alternating colors — at
times monochromatic, at
times colorful — resulting in a densely stratified surface.
Her
paintings and her works on paper are thus transformed into sensitive witnesses
of a
time or a moment via
acrylic or watercolour
painted portraits or scenes bathed in monochromatic bluish gradations, characteristic
of the artist's work.
Jessica Wozny (b. 1978), a German - born artist who is a long -
time resident
of Oaxaca, realized a room - sized installation that combines over 15 individual mixed media sculptures with a group
of acrylic paintings on paper.
Charcoal, pastel,
acrylic & oils, clay, plaster, wall drawing, and plein air
painting have all been investigated over the years with the variety
of full
time and guest faculty that have participated.
Paris's Matthieu Haberard brings five new pieces — with a dark wood, epoxy,
acrylic painting titled «Screen, where the touch, is a real sensation» (2015), a can - and - water sculpture called «Combine
painting» (2015), a wood - and - electric cable piece called «Your
time is running out» (2015), as well as two sculptural installations made
of steel, plexiglas,
acrylic on canvas, titled «Marcel; Where the bulbs are?»
Acrylic paint comes in big bottles, which can make getting a lot
of colors expensive, but they'll last a long
time.
Working with
acrylics on un-stretched canvas, and limiting himself to the temporal constraints
of quick - to - dry
paint, the works function as archives
of the physical act
of painting, and as tools to record the passing
of time.
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome presents the third stage
of this major transcontinental tour, Sean Scully: Change and Horizontals, an intensely focused survey comprising
of acrylic, ink, graphite and masking - tape drawings from 1974 - 75 - presented together for the first
time in over 30 years - as well as two large - scale
paintings from the same period and the artist's personal notebooks.
This intensely focused survey is comprised
of acrylic, ink, graphite, and masking - tape drawings from 1974 — 75 — presented together for the first
time in over 30 years — as well as two large - scale
paintings from the same period and the artist's personal notebooks.
The Aged
Paintings are
painted with
acrylic and oil on burlap with almost photorealistic precision, and then aged and patinated, appearing almost as artefacts
of our
times to a future civilisation.
Even today as his
paintings fade with
time the
acrylic elements are decaying differently, adding new interpretive dimensions to the ethereal nature
of the works.
Popularised in 1950's America, a
time when
acrylic paint was also developed, viewing this series
of works via these methods results in a strange collision
of time and place, part 21st century, part historic.
He began by working in traditional landscape oils, dabbled for a short period
of time in modern abstracts, spent several years experimenting with
acrylics, and then returned to landscape
painting in oils.
«
Time of Trees,»
acrylic paintings by Patti Fox.
Each shape
of the image then gets stenciled and
painted individually with
acrylic, creating densely rich, saturated surfaces constructed one shape and color at a
time.
In the transfer
of the configuration to
painting, Moyer pours
acrylic paint in a
time - based procedure.
Gaines subsequently tested the limits
of representation by dropping the formulas to map tree growth, leaf accumulation, and kinetic motion with pencil - marked gridworks abstracted from portraits («Faces: Men and Women,» 1978) and photos
of household objects («Shadows,» 1980), trees («Walnut Tree Orchard,» 1975 — 2014; «Falling Leaves,» 1978 — 79; and the flourescent
acrylic paint and sheet series «Numbers and Trees,» 1986 — 89), even
timed three - second intervals tracking the graceful turns
of the iconic postmodernist choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown («Motion: Trisha Brown Dance,» 1980 — 81).
For this show, the Bristol - based artist created a whole new body
of work using oil for the first
time, along with
acrylic and spray
paint.
Although executed in New York, the work in the exhibition, which includes oil and
acrylic paintings as well as a series
of prints, addresses issues beyond the borders
of time and place, taking up the cultural eruptions
of the recent past.
Both turquois color
paintings are similar, same size, color, distribution
of brush strokes etc., but at the same
time they possess a completely different character due to different grounds: one the one hand a white primed cotton and on the other hand an uncolored
acrylic ground on canvas.
It surprised me that Helen had remained loyal to oil
paints as, by the
time I was in New York, safe water - based
acrylics were available (the new Magna
paints had been unsafe, causing the tragic death
of artist Morris Louis in 1962).
Working tirelessly for three short years, he was prolifically busy producing a vast and diverse amount
of work which included
time capsules, minimal sculpture and room constructions, kitch
acrylic paintings attributed to another artist (Es Que) to be shown at a Lord & Taylors department store gallery, enigmatic rainbow buttons, half dollars cast in his own blood and
acrylic medium, a lip stamp that he used in the subways to humorously deface ads for pantyhose, single - message bronze plaques that only become art when implanted in a sidewalk; graffiti stencils spray
painted in unconventional spaces and a series
of anonymous advertisements in Artforum magazine encouraging starting rumors, telling lies and perpetrating hoaxes, smoking, tripping and teaching art that collectively he referred to as «micro-manifestos».
Two
of the great surprises
of the day came in the form
of Edward Ruscha's bold Golden Words, 1985, which realized $ 334,600 against a $ 70,000 + pre-auction estimate — one
of the highest recent prices paid for a work on paper by the artist — while the bidding on Jack Goldstein's
acrylic on canvas Untitled, 1983 exploded much the same as the subject matter
of the
painting itself, finishing at almost seven
times the pre-auction estimate
of $ 30,000 + to realize $ 203,150, and establishing a new world record at auction for the painter.
At
times the work's imagery, created with oil and
acrylic paint with gold leaf, evokes Matisse's botanical cutouts, while their bright, vertical bands
of color uncannily call to mind the works
of Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly.
From wielding plywood, ink, screws and graphite to house,
acrylic and spray
paints, Brewer creates his vibrant pieces, this
time, incorporating wooden shapes, inspired by his extensive anthology
of public works.
Renowned for his bold use
of colour, inventive forms and, more latterly, the three - dimensional quality he achieved with thick layers
of acrylic paint, Hoyland was strongly influenced by his experience
of American Abstract Expressionism in the late 1950s and 1960s and was friends with many
of the acclaimed American artists
of the
time (including Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler).
Self Portrait (Freehand 2), 2007 was again produced in
acrylic on canvas but this
time the artist allowed himself the freedom to
paint the I by hand, in three strokes
of the brush.
Her recent
paintings are aptly described by the review below: New York
Times Nov 2, 2003: quoted from the review
of the Parrish Art Museum show; «Just plain good abstract
painting is represented by SueJin Jo's two
acrylic on canvas, which seem to have picked up one
of the promising threads dropped by the second - generation Abstract Expressionism.
At the
time of the exhibition, titled John Seery, the Garboushian Gallery was still fairly new and while most
of Seery's earlier works were done using
acrylic paint, the artist took to using oil
paint for his new works that featured at the 2010 exhibition.
Whitten's poetic and physically compelling compositions reinvent the medium
of painting time and again — from his series
of small «ghost»
paintings of the 1960s, his smeared test slabs and dragged canvases
of the 1970s, and his collaged
acrylic «skins»
of the 1980s to his more recent tessellated constructions
of paint tiles.