Combining oil and
turpentine washes with water - based casein, Bearden renders a rich surface of earthy color, mottled with crater - like ellipses that are apparently the result of the oil's resistance to water.
With a palette of primary colors, he brushed and pooled
turpentine washes across the 74 - by -92-inch canvas.
In this bilaterally divided canvas, Innes demonstrates a signature technique of building layers of oil paint, before stripping away sections using
a turpentine wash.
Not exact matches
Unless you're pouring
turpentine in your baby's diapers, I just don't think the way you choose to
wash your fluff is any reflection on your parenting skills.
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.
Turpentine is then repeatedly applied by brush to remove the paint before it dries,
washing away or, as Innes has described it, «unpainting» the surface, leaving all but the faintest vestigial traces of color.
While Newman's work reeled viewers into a color field, Swavely's paintings resist close inspection, for as one approaches, the brushstrokes that once felt voluminous fall flat, having been
washed away by
turpentine - soaked rags scrubbed across canvas heavy with oil.
Callum Innes paints large rectangles in Scheveningen black, then all but
washes out the black with
turpentine until one sees shades of green and blue.
Turpentine not only thins the oil, but speeds up the drying time, which is great when we're color -
washing immediately before painting.
She thinned her paints with
turpentine and applied
washes of color onto unprimed canvas.
Inspired by the enamel stains of Jackson Pollock and the thin
washes of Helen Frankenthaler, Louis created his Veils by pouring Magna acrylic paint thinned with
turpentine onto unprimed, unstretched canvases.
Mixing mostly
turpentine with my color, I
wash in the rest of the image.