Word: watercolor
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This past Monday afternoon, Rosenfeld sits at her desk tearing off pieces of a portobello mushroom, grilled onion and swiss cheese sandwich as she prepares for class. On the wall hangs a watercolor she painted herself...
...colors - greens, reds and pastels against vivid blue skies - have been painstakingly cleaned with small poultices of Japanese paper impregnated with a solution of ammonium carbonate. Areas where the paint had fallen, due to humidity or previous restorations, have been filled in with fine hatching: parallel brush strokes in watercolor. The team re-covered the rusting heads of nails used in the late 19th century to anchor plaster to the wall. They removed old fixatives and fillings of unsuitable materials such as cement. They corrected previous attempts at retouching where color had altered or fallen, as it had from...
...still as loquacious as ever, but carefully, rationally edited down. Although she criticizes self-absorption in “Narcissus,” Morisette is the very picture of the self-centered diva. “So Unsexy,” the most poignant track, is a gorgeous watercolor of the new Alanis Morissette. In 1995 screeches and finger-pointing would have dominated, while in 1998 she projected a self-reflective Zen mentality. However, 2002’s Under Rug Swept brings her inner conflict to a conscious level where Morisette herself can contemplate the ironies of being both arrogant...
Butt begins to falter in her choice of medium and her application of that medium. Resembling ancient Persian manuscripts, Butt’s drawings consist of interlaced pages of semi-transparent dot patterns with a small watercolor over-painting. Additionally, little white circles with words such as “honor,” “doubts” and “passion” are strategically placed on the finished product. The over-paintings are always of either a young turbaned man or a woman, whose face and expression are eerily reminiscent of Frida Kahlo?...
...orchid that had fallen...I also squeezed out two different colors of paint from tubes that were lying on my desk close by, that I thought would make the most visually stimulating point...I also do Chinese watercolor painting, so that’s where I got the idea...