Article · Saltworkstudio
Oil Paint over Pinhole Photos: Surreal Voyages
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2012
About this lesson
The artist mounts enlarged pinhole photographs on board, varnishes them, then repeatedly applies and rubs back oil paint over the image so buried photographic details resurface unpredictably, producing four surreal narrative paintings.
Related lessons
Article
An Introduction to Mischtechnik (and variants), Part One
Free
Article
Daniel Mirante
Grattage: when art is created by scraping the surface
Free
Article
Caterina Stringhetta
Life of an Artist – Blog #5: The Surreal within Painting
Free
Article
Natalie Cheetham
Putting the Magic Into Realism
Free
Article
Nicholas Harper
The Mixed Technique and Indirect Painting
Free
Article
Ellen Cathcart Trezevant
In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting
Free + paid
Course · 30 h
The Museum of Modern Art (Corey D'Augustine, Alex Roediger)