He creates his paintings by
troweling oil paint onto the face of the canvas and then pulls a stiff bristle brush across its surface in one single stroke.
He creates this optical play by
troweling oil paint onto the face of the canvas and then pulling a stiff bristle brush across its surface in a single stroke achieved through muscle memory.
Leonhardt
trowels oil paint with the palette knife, adeptly plowing layers of colors upon each other, as farmers might do part to enrich the soil for the next crop.
With the decisiveness of a marksman,
she trowels oil paint to existence, defining forms that are at times stubby vertical trunks or limber acrobatic shapes, but always exuberant impasto.
Not exact matches
After 3 - 5 coats of gesso, two layers of
oil ground are applied with a
trowel.
Onto this base Kelly then lays down impasto
oil pigments with a
trowel style brush, fragmenting the assemblage further.