The direction in which the threads are sewn mimic
the way brush marks are layered within a painting which, in turn, gives the allusion of depth, volume, and form.
Not exact matches
The sauce will set with the
brush marks, and it glistens in a very appealing
way.
It probably wouldn't hurt
brushing up on the events of the series before jumping into Red Red Dead Redemption 2 and
marking this day with a new playthrough is a great
way to honor John Marston's journey.
He'd discussed it with
Mark while having lunch in the Students Union Building; and
Mark, in the incredibly tolerant
way of one who's
brushed aside death (he was a cancer survivor; his lower left leg was amputated), and who saw his friend's madness for what it was, said with self - deprecating reasonableness: «I think any kind of effort that brings relief to Africa is all right.»
Either
way, I was slowly devoting myself to him, adopting his speech patterns, dropping the g's off all my gerunds, devising
ways in which
Mark might have to touch me even though every time he
brushed against me, I felt my whole body empty, all of the heat leaving my body for his.
I especially like the
way he often seems in no hurry to dip his
brush back into the ink again, allowing successive
marks to grow lighter — an «imperfection'that adds immeasurably to the power of his work.
The tension between subject and content, the
way the one reveals and conceals the other, is played out in the «Women» paintings (Woman as Landscape, 1965 - 66, pictured); the subject appears to be a woman composed of gestural
brush marks, the content is ineffable and elusive.
This bouncing between the fabricated and the natural resonates strangely in the
way that the reflected light shimmering on the foil already has the look of the
brush mark that is bound to mimic it.
This month explore
brush strokes, blots, and dots to learn how artists make their
mark in different
ways in the exhibitions Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s and Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection.
We follow the
brush marks to try to trace back the making process, to analyse the sequence of colours and lines, but it is when we move away from this analytic
way of looking to one that is more intuitive and start to enjoy the play of light and colour, transparency and opacity that we become conscious of where the power of Frize's painting lies.
Situated part
way between abstraction and representation, her figures are reduced to concisely defined fields of shiny colour, on which small
brush marks remain just visible.
Quick, confident
brush strokes appear to rest lightly on the surface of the canvas, operating as pure
mark making until the slow burn of an image makes its
way to the eye.
It probably wouldn't hurt
brushing up on the events of the series before jumping into Red Red Dead Redemption 2 and
marking this day with a new playthrough is a great
way to honor John Marston's journey.
This coat is put on a bit thicker, moving the
brush every which
way and leaving some pleasing
brush marks, and then left to dry.