Ruth Pastine uses
tiny brush strokes with oil paint to build up the layers of the painting in an almost meditative, obsessive way to achieve a glowing luminosity.
When artists in the early Italian Renaissance began applying egg tempera to large wooden panels instead of manuscript pages, they had to build up their images from
tiny brush strokes.
[Makes single,
tiny brush stroke] It gets very old very quickly, and while a handful of people have done it pretty well, I just thought, No.
Not exact matches
I gripped the
tiny, built - in - to - compact
brush, swirled it around in the color like I assumed a real lady would do and gingerly applied a
stroke to my cheek.
With each
tiny chisel and
brush -
stroke, the mural comes back to life, the painter comes back to life, the soldier comes back to life.
Similarly, Jessica Labatte sets up elaborate arrangements of colored paper, but in the process of photographing she makes visible what is barely there between the lens and the subject, such as
tiny debris and dust particles that give the illusion of painted
brush strokes.
Significantly, the heroic gesture which those artists would have made with a large
brush and broad
strokes is here instead the product of innumerable
tiny strokes and a layered conceptual process.
:) He showed us this little water color
brush he used and the
tiny tiny strokes he took to put it on...