Sentences with phrase «used encaustic wax»

Johns was interested in technique, and used encaustic wax to create his 1954 Flag painting.

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A friend handed down an old Pepsi crate which I use to store and display my encaustic wax bars.

The remainder come from a mix of private and public collections, with the Whitney Museum of American Art lending one highlight: the 1958 canvas «Three Flags» done in encaustic — a traditional, wax - based medium that Mr. Johns used to create an uneven, almost rippling texture, underscoring the handmade nature of his flags.

Using a «found» Korean action thriller by director Kim Jee Woon, entitled A Bittersweet Life (2005), Webster works with paint and encaustic wax on large and small - scale film stills (computer - generated screenshots), which have been printed onto synthetic and slippery digital canvas.

She used impasto and wax encaustic techniques, and at times would paint using her hands, as did early Native American artists.

Encaustic painting, also known as hot - wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added.

Tres Memoria, which you see here, represents one of Lynda Benglis's smooth - surfaced encaustic paintings executed on narrow, vertical supports using multicoloured liquid wax in even brush strokes, which she then manipulated with a blow torch to obtain a marbleized color effect.

The main gallery showcases Rose's encaustic paintings, which mix pigment and wax in undulating or crosshatched patterns that somewhat resemble those used to produce both sound and line in Scriptronics.

Royal Academician Terry Setch has been painting in encaustic for 40 years, and here he demonstrates some of the wax - wrangling techniques he uses to create his multi-layered and richly textured paintings.