Sentences with phrase «troweling thick»

Sliding, pushing, wiping, scraping, troweling thick masses of paint against and across the canvas.

Not exact matches

On a thin board Elise trowels ten to fifteen thin layers of Venetian plaster to create a thick, but delicate, matte foundation.

Lasker's positioning of contradictory elements (thick / thin, brushed / troweled, gestural / flat, unconscious / conscious) through his use of three elementary essentials — figure, ground and line — challenge more traditional readings of nonrepresentational painting.

Using thick, black pigment he troweled a large canvas (105 x 92 1/2 inches) with a palette knife, then cut that textured black field with a deep red wound forming the outline of an almost organic shape.

The collection also belies the impression Still's painting has progressively «thinned out» during the past two decades; in fact, it shows that he has alternated between thick, richly troweled surfaces and more thinly applied pigments, surrounded by large expanses of bare canvas, throughout much of his career.

Valerie Brennan's thick, trowelled surfaces lap the edge of her painted panels, expanding the space of the painting beyond its support.

However when praise is troweled on thick and accompanies a proposal, it becomes an obsequious insult.

Wet the surface of the wall, and spread the mixture on — not too thick — with a trowel.

Trowel apply 2 - 3 coats — no more than 1/16» thick.