You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.
I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.
Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
If you've never mixed paint, you aren't going to be able to paint properly.
One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.
First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.
I want each and every entire brushstroke to be seen. I want the marks made by the tip of the brush to carry as much meaning as the marks made by the dragging tail end, the part that splits open as the paint pulls away, thins and dries.
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.
Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.
What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only after painting them that I sometimes felt that the grey was not yet satisfactory and that another layer of paint was needed.
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.
I would say - and paint doesn't peel unless it's acrylic paint, so maybe it is acrylic paint that they're using, not oil paint. So let me say yes, it would be acrylic house paint, which, when it dries, peels very nicely. So let's go with that.
No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.
The thicker you paint, the more it flows.
Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.
The most expensive part of any manufacturing unit is the paint shop.
