March 2009
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DRAWING: Use Bread as an Eraser?
When I saw this article in American Artist, I instantly thought of Jim Dine. At a workshop I took early Dec ’08 we watched a video of Jim preparing an exhibit for a German gallery of large wall drawings - charcoal works drawn directly onto the walls. I just loved it, for many reasons: He uses his hands and non art material related tools such as charcoal tied to a stick/rags/bread to erase, he...
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ARTIST: John Virtue
John’s high contrast paintings are like large charcoal drawings. I find it most intriguing that he handles shellac and ink on raw canvas with a cloth in his hands…and I just love his ink spray bottle ♥ Image: Landscape No. 704, 2003-4 - acrylic, black ink and shellac on canvas 244 x 244 cm