And lastly,
what painting methods and finishing touches will create final pieces that have strong visual impact?
Not exact matches
In other words, the three
methods complement each other and
paint a congruous picture of
what the tree of life should look like.
With all but the eye treatment, I use
what I call the war
paint method.
I want to try this
method, I've been making my own chalk
paint, and
painted my china cabinet, and used the Minwax dark wax to antique it, it's not for everyone, but the look is just
what I want, old world look, not even put it has character, I am doing my coffee table as well, I find very ornate pieces cheap and
paint a base cream chalk
paint and then go over it with the Minwax dark, let it sit for 15 min and buff, then add another layer of wax, its so much fun, but the problem I'm having is I'm ADD and I have 5 projects going at once!
I agonized for months over exactly
what to do with the cabinets (Chalk
Paint, Alkyd
Paint, Re-staining, Gel Stain, Refacing, Waiting until my husband was out of the house then smashing them to pieces so we'd be forced to get new cabinets... etc.) and finally landed on the no - sanding, prime and
paint method.
The Sculptural
Method is where we treat our
painting or drawing as a clump of clay and gradually form it into
what we want it to look like.
Painting became almost radical and came to represent a new intersection merging fresh ways of seeing and traditional methods of art making to rediscover, and reinvent, a medium rift with possibility and enlivened with artists actively re-imagining what painting c
Painting became almost radical and came to represent a new intersection merging fresh ways of seeing and traditional
methods of art making to rediscover, and reinvent, a medium rift with possibility and enlivened with artists actively re-imagining
what painting c
painting could be.
In
what has been called a «post-medium» (and even «post-feminism») era, how can we look critically at the specific tools,
methods, and means of
painting, particularly abstraction, from within a feminist rubric?
I find it amazing to look at a
painting in Photoshop and change the colour, or else figure out how an artist worked —
what was their
method, for example.
What was your path towards art - making and what led you to working with mixed media, including sculpture, collage, painting, installation, and printmaking methods such as silkscreen, lithography, and woodbl
What was your path towards art - making and
what led you to working with mixed media, including sculpture, collage, painting, installation, and printmaking methods such as silkscreen, lithography, and woodbl
what led you to working with mixed media, including sculpture, collage,
painting, installation, and printmaking
methods such as silkscreen, lithography, and woodblock?
We had
paintings from his Urbana and Berkeley series, and
what I love about Diebenkorn is that his
method is always on the surface: you can really see it all right there.
Throughout the years, Niele Toroni has remained steadfast in his practice of «Travail - Peinture,» in which the working
method of applying
paint in imprints of regular intervals delineates
what is put on view.
Done with oil sticks pressed directly against the canvas, a
method Mr. Goldberg chose some years ago over brushing with
paint, they are energetic productions based on
what he called a «quasi grid,» with patchy squares of color intersected at random by strong diagonals.
His
method hinges on a kind of information processing that often starts with a photograph, he says, because
painting from photographs distances him from
what is real or true.
«The process of making these is so slow and organic — like creating an aftermath or a debris field where you intuit, and sometimes actually make out, the lives of many generations of humans, alongside nonhuman traces, and objects, all laid down under pressure — which take time to make and are filled with that time, pieces of
what might have been a larger canvas of handiworks that reference entire lives, whole communities that are brought into the field of the
painting, where the
painting itself becomes another community,» described Sacks his
painting method in a 2014 interview with Natasha Kurchanova published on Studio International.
In the confined space of his East Hamptons studio in Long Island, Pollock used the drip
painting method as a way of touching base with his subconscious in the spirit of
what became known as abstract expressionism.
Join professional art instructor Andrew Geeson as he shows you his fast and achievable
method for
painting watercolours that showcase
what sets this medium apart from others.
However, it wasn't long after the LIFE article came out that Pollock abandoned this
method of
painting, whether due to the pressure of fame, or his own demons, beginning
what are called his «black pourings.»
No longer wholly reliant on
what Kenneth Noland described as a «one - shot» process of pre-conceived design, these
paintings show Gilliam developing a freer
method of composition.
Jones, a member of the East Coast Art Collective, Paper Rad, has received recognition with an impressive exhibition, performance, and publication record for
what is described in the press release for his solo exhibition The New Dark Age at Deitch Projects in New York as, «between - media video sculpture, light
painting, and «drawing in the digital age»» that «explores new
methods of pictorial storytelling...»
Supported by a catalogue essay in which the curator Catherine Lampert discusses their habits and
methods and introduces previously unseen writing by the artists, the exhibition will look at the way their conversations impacted on the development of their work, demonstrating that despite their wide - ranging styles they are each linked by a desire to catch
what Bacon describes as «the mystery of appearance within the mystery of making», and in doing so broke new ground in contemporary
painting The exhibition includes major works by each artist, several borrowed from public collections, among them Francis Bacon's Pope I 1951 from Aberdeen Art Gallery, David Hockney's Man in a Museum 1962 from the British Council and others like Frank Auerbach's Primrose Hill, Winter Sunshine 1962 - 64 and Euan Uglow's Nude, Lady C 1959 - 60 which have not been seen in public for many years.
His solo November 1985 exhibition at
what is now the National Art Museum of China in Beijing exposed Chinese artists to non-traditional
methods of art - making for the first time, inspiring them to experiment and work beyond the academic
painting and sculpture techniques taught in China's state art academies.
The
method wasn't very different from Pollock's own «drip» technique - he, too, had poured
paint onto raw canvas - but
what made it so radical in Frankenthaler's hands was that she managed to wrest from it a dazzling sense of color and light.
If abstract expressionism was defined by a reaction against Europe, an assertion of nationalist values, a way of decentring the way in which one worked by putting the
painting on the floor, and minimalism is defined by the understanding of the three dimensional object, and fabrication and industrial
methods,
what happens when a
painting comes after abstract expressionism but before minimalism?
In the many interviews on this site we often ask painters variations of similar questions such as; «Where did you come from», «Who has been most influential to your work» «How did you make this», «
What's important to you»... to peek into painter's working
methods, observations and ideas about art that may help other painters and to pass on the continuum of knowledge about
painting practise as well as the visual poetics of art.
What is still not sufficiently appreciated is that the twist Frankenthaler gave to Pollock's drip
method removed the heavy breathing from abstract expressionism while retaining the closeness to the physical act of
painting.
What you will learn: properties of furniture
painting, best practices & preparation, distressing
methods, creating buttery finishes, waxing, as well as tools such as brushes, sandpaper, waxing, and distressing.
What are the best
painting methods to use?
I too would love to know
what finish you used (ie eggshell, semi gloss or gloss) as well as
what method was used to
paint the cabinets.
Can you tell me
what method you use to get a smooth finish with the
paint, i.e., brush, roller (if so,
what nap), sprayer, etc.?
If you think I could have them
painted or do it myself
what method would be best?»
What you will learn: properties of furniture
painting; best practices & surface preparation, distressing
methods (dry & wet), creating finishes (waxing & clear coat).