Sentences with phrase «use of turpentine»

Instead of trying to depict his inner thoughts and feelings, he developed a painstaking process of applying paint to his prepared surfaces, before removing areas of that paint by the use of turpentine.

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The new odor, a commingling of the vapors of turpentine, rotten eggs and old oysters, comes from dimethyl sulfoxide, better known as DMSO, the controversial and often illegally used drug hailed by a growing legion of amateur and professional athletes who view it as a panacea for many ills ranging from sprained ankles to tendinitis and ripped muscles.

I used a solution of 1 pea of magenta, 1/2 a pea of phthalo blue, and about 2 egg cups of turpentine.

Before Arshile Gorky used paints thinned with turpentine for Abstract Expressionism's most fluid creations, he boasted of his thick surfaces.

Innes then uses turpentine to remove the layers from sections of the painting, revealing the luminous color that lies underneath.

Ms. Steir's use of runny paint — a mixture that is probably nine parts turpentine to one part pigment — helps us link the work with waterfalls or rainstorms or vistas consumed by mist.

In this bilaterally divided canvas, Innes demonstrates a signature technique of building layers of oil paint, before stripping away sections using a turpentine wash.

Defacement again came into productive play with Wool's Untitled (2007), spray - painted on linen and rubbed raw with turpentine, and Guston's North (1961 — 2), which used a similar method of scribbles of black paint bleeding into a white ground to produce dense passages of grey.

The haloing effect seen around each stain results from the turpentine that is used to thin out the paint, a step necessary for oil paints and the Magna brand of acrylic paint.

Subtracting paint by rubbing out areas using a turpentine - laden cloth and then adding back paint became an important technical element, creating cloud - like areas and voluminous forms, like the orange area in the bottom left corner of «Luminous Undercurrent.»

Rather than using paint thickly and opaquely so that it sits upon the surface of the canvas, Frankenthaler thinned her oil paint with turpentine to the consistency of watercolor.

Using matte pigments mixed with turpentine rather than linseed oil, Avery applied his colours in thin layers with a stiff brush, creating chromatic effects of astounding subtlety, delicacy and invention.

Her technique of using oils diluted with turpentine directly on very large, unprepared canvas, created a field of transparent color.

Using turpentine in conjunction with oil paints Innes thins and removes layers, revealing underlying colours and leaving the evidence of his process on the canvas.

The artist then removes a section of this layer using turpentine to reveal the constituent colours beneath, and the residue of this process stains the canvas with veils of pigment.

Using a restricted palette, Yun applied layers of pigment to raw canvas in vertical or horizontal bands interspersed with blank space; working on his studio floor, he diluted the paint with turpentine so that it would gradually bleed into the support.

In these, as in most of his paintings, the artist removes paint from the canvas using turpentine, as a poignant way of suggesting human existence.

Hi Balbinot, yes, you could easily create the style of Mallory Page paintings with oils, using pure turpentine with the oils will get that lovely drippy effect.

Gently chip off the plaster, use a metal wire brush and water to scrub off any leftovers, then seal with a 50:50 mixture of linseed oil and turpentine.

It worked great and was fast and easy (until I had to clean the sprayer with turpentine; — RRB - The finish has withheld the use and test of time.

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