But it is the expressive power of paint, especially oil paint, as an artist's medium that really gets Mr Ball going.
Both our art and our literature go to great pains to destroy our illusions and remind us that they are merely ink on paper or oil paint on canvas.
De Kooning relished studio experiments, like mixing oil paint with water for puckered textures, or off-printing parts of wet paintings onto pages of the Times, making a mad science of beauty.
Since most are on paper, which allows oil paint more physical autonomy than absorptive canvas, the results are distinguished by fresh color and light, a palpable sense of immediacy and spontaneity, and a suggestion of transient moments captured and prolonged.
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Though still classic in design (some have two and three heads to make veins and layers), the length and type of hair for the brushes have been changed to accommodate water-based paint, which the industry has embraced in place of oil-based paint.
The question will be whether Mobil's sheer hunger for Kazakhstan's oil allows prosecutors to paint a different, and more damaging, picture of those transactions.
Perhaps an itinerant artist-for-hire, Scott mixed walnut or linseed oil and pigments to paint multiple mediums, including stagecoaches and a landscape dated to 1843 which hangs in a neighboring North Carolina county, all incorporating techniques similar to those on display in the Carolina Room.
The company sees a big market in particular for paints, in which chemical chains of sugar and oil would replace the volatile ketones and oxygenated solvents that vaporize from both oil-based and latex paint.
He supports repealing the tax break for oil companies and he's tried to paint McCain as a candidate who is "in the pocket" of big oil corporations.
If Gore can paint Bush as big oil's buddy, determined to invade environmentally protected regions and indifferent to air and water quality, this will hurt Bush mightily among exactly those "swing" voters about whom we have heard so much: young, parents of small children, fiscally conservative but environmentally liberal.
That statue looks like bronze, but there is plenty of salt, paint, sweat, fuel oil and courage stirred in.
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However, few have been paying attention to the facts as the partisans have worked overtime to paint the Obama administration as being anti-oil and anti-natural gas.
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The Republicans are determined to make hay out of the Democrats' perceived intransigence on drilling, while the Democrats are keen to paint the Republicans as the lackeys of greedy oil barons.
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The new paint, similar to that used in the offshore oil industry, is then applied in three coats.
ArtRage Studio offers natural painting tools such as oil paints and watercolors, along with utilities to make painting easier for anyone who wants to paint or draw on their computer regardless of skill level.
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