He used black enamel because it was the cheapest paint.
I used black enamel on raw canvas because I liked the way the paint was absorbed by the cotton duck — and it was cheap!
His winning gambit was to
use black enamel and acrylic paints, unusual media that have the feel more of viscous printing ink than of paint.
Not exact matches
The remaining
enamel traces were
black, a sign that she had taken mercury, which was then
used — ineffectively — to treat syphilis.
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The only tells, visually, are the GT V8's revised rear lower valance and exhaust; the
blacked - out mesh in the front grille; and the
use of red
enamel instead of green on the background of the Bentley badges.
Pensato: I'm probably brain dead by now from
using black and white
enamel.
When he moved to New York, Stella was still painting houses to pay rent, and continued to
use the house painter's brush and
enamel when making his
Black Paintings (1958 - 60).
In his more recent works, including those in this show, he
uses enamel on linen, spray painting looping
black lines, then erasing or blurring them with rags, engaging in a complex play of presence and absence, gesture and cancellation.
The rough means of production (
black enamel rubbed over canvas
using ropes and chains) adds depth to the simplicity of the designs.
West
used thick,
black brushstrokes, similar to Franz Kline's style, in works such as «Totem,» an
enamel on paper from the 1960s, and an untitled
enamel work from the 1960s.
But in the early 1950s, in the years just before his tragic death at age 44 in an alcohol - fueled car crash, Pollock was experimenting with a new way of confronting his surface, spilling
black enamel paint — the kind you might
use on outdoor ironwork — onto raw cotton duck canvas, a clashing, angry union of synthetic industrial chemical and unprimed organic substrate.
Karam has
used his signature elephant motif to create a gold and
black Rhodium pendant; and the colourful figures in Saint Phalle's sculptures, one of which is exhibited in the show, appear as an assemblage of
enamelled eyes, lips, hands, feet and hearts on a gold necklace.
It was after this, that Wool took up painting professionally, achieving a breakthrough around 1986 - 7 with his «Pattern Paintings», made by
using paint rollers incised with abstract designs so as to transfer patterns in
black enamel to a white canvas.
Too poor to buy proper artist paints for his oil painting, he
used black and white
enamels.
I mean you
use matte, semi-gloss, and all sorts of glossy
black enamel paint as well as various
black oil paint.
The media presented in the exhibition are diverse —
black soap, wax, ceramic tile, spray
enamel, books, vinyl records, oyster shells, shea butter, live plants with grow lights — but are all familiar from the artist's multivalent practice, and through their repeated
use many have become Johnson's signature materials, offering a gateway to the artist's world: sculpture, painting, installation and video.
Using a housepainter's brush, he applied
black enamel paint to the canvas, dividing the surface of the canvas in half and painting stripes of
black with a single, unpainted vertical line in the center.
He made a defining breakthrough between 1986 and ’87 when he began to
use paint rollers incised with floral and geometric designs to transfer patterns in severe
black enamel to a white ground.
By
using a little
black enamel paint laying around and some espresso metallic paint I already had I was able to get some great variations in the paint color
I spray painted the lids with
black satin valspar premium
enamel spray paint and
used the stickers that the carton came with and attached them to the top of the lids.
In the kitchen, I'm
using more fresh greenery and adding white and
black accents like these
enamel look mugs and antler print.