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...In this Exposed series, a single colour is painted on to the canvas and then partially brushed away by turpentine to suggest buried veils of colour....
...Although Castelli painstakingly plots out each work with sketches and moodboards, he begins with a sort of chaos, by covering a canvas with what he calls “mud”: an unpredictable foundation of acrylic, turpentine...
...An emu herds four leggy chicks into the turpentine trees that poke out of a sea of buffel grass....
...He enjoyed thinning out his paint with turpentine, here using long-drawn-out, thin strokes combined with other richer, denser passages....
...He creates a sense of transparency and light in his tactile oil paintings by tinting turpentine with paint....
...Laying down pigment in thin washes and stains diluted with turpentine, he achieved a low-key lyricism in the 1920s and 1930s with a distinctive palette of sombre reds, pinks muted with white, mustardy yellows...
...try the retsina from the Peloponnese (as a half-Greek, I express my surprise to see retsina offered at a restaurant that takes its wines seriously, and we are both curious to know if it still tastes like turpentine...
...There’s no pretence in the drama that the alcohol wasn’t deeply destructive: this was terrible, unregulated stuff, often adulterated with turpentine or sulphuric acid, that could kill people and destroy...
...At the same time, Lebo wanted to be honest about her own adverse reactions to the fruit, which she initially thought smelled like “turpentine” and “a cantaloupe that’s been left in the car”....
...If you happen to recover from sore knees after applying petroleum oil seasoned with chilli pepper, turpentine and camphor — Clark Stanley’s Snake Oil Liniment — then you might well give Stanley the benefit...
...The galleries paired a Roman marble draped sculpture of Asclepius with works by the Scottish abstract painter Callum Innes, whose process — “unpainting” his canvases using turpentine to remove layers of...
...Her mother, Mary, apparently considered aborting Highsmith using turpentine, as she later told her, in a chatty way: “It’s funny how you adore the smell of turpentine, Pat . . . ” When Highsmith was three...
...Here, through beeswax, turpentine, chocolate and smoky notes, they created a picture of Pompadour in her petit salon....
...Weirder still, I miss cleaning my shoes, and the turpentine smell of the polish. I miss my suits. I like to think they miss me, too, as they droop despondently in a closet I don’t visit anymore....
...Callum Innes has just made “Lamp Black/Quinacridone Gold” in lockdown in his Oslo studio: quivering layers of paint partly dissolved in turpentine, exposing strata of colour and tone, suggesting a dark,...
...Itinerant music “professors” travelled from East Coast salons and Mississippi bars to the turpentine camps of Florida and East Texas, playing a tune to their own rhythmic support....
...Turpentine-thinned green paint cascades over biomorphic forms and hints of body parts in “Waterfall”....
...many Greek wine producers who have worked so hard to revolutionise the quality and range available to find that even some professionals think that Greece produces nothing more exciting than retsina, whose turpentine...
...Easy to produce, cheap gin was flavoured with turpentine or sulphuric acid rather than juniper....
...Rising from the floor: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy, War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans . . . What book changed your life?...
...The paint then does its own work, running down the canvas, though its weight has been controlled already by the amount of turpentine it contains....
...A courtyard reeks of “turpentine, fishmeal, mustard, black lead, the usual grave, morning piss-stink of just emptied night jars”....
...But its 17th-century predecessors imitated luxurious velvet damask, the fuzz glued with turpentine to keep moths at bay....
...“I use a conservation soap mixed with alcohol and turpentine to draw them out. An old trick is to dab meths on and light it. It works but I don’t recommend it.”...
...The layers of overpainting must become soluble, so Crispin tests a range of possible solvents such as water, turpentine, paint thinner and alcohol....
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