Embodied in raw, gritty paint, smoldering combinations like pink and gray, sky blue and dirty greenish yellow, or mint green and rusty orange yield pictures that are at once seductive and caustic.
I had to scrub my hands and my right side with this gritty paint remover and it took off a couple of layers of skin". The officers were watching him and barking orders.
As a founding member of the group of New York City painters known as the Eight, he won a measure of fame early in the 20th century for painting gritty urban street scenes when contemporaries were still turning out pretty landscapes and flattering portraits.
Plastic wrap, old bits of canvas, found objects, liquid latex and other found bits make their way into Breiling's works, which straddle the gritty divide between painting and sculpture.
Mrs. Olmedo "has Kahlo's gritty, ferocious paintings -- the kind no one else could have painted," said Hayden Herrera, the author of "Frida," a 1983 biography.
So the Liberty got gritty in the paint and held Melvin to 4 points -- and was hammered from nearly every other direction, losing, 67-58, at Madison Square Garden.
THE SCRIPT -- "After getting four student deferments himself during Vietnam so he could attend to 'other priorities,' he's still gritty enough to paint John Kerry as a spineless wimp on Vietnam and Iraq".
IF you stand on the bridge of Dream, a 184-foot yacht capable of circumnavigating the globe on a single tank of fuel, the deck 20-odd-feet below looks like that of some gutsy supply boat, all chunky with steel and gritty gray nonskid paint.
A few of the artists that inspire my work are: Allison Schulnik, for her thick and gritty application of paint; Maya Hayuk, for her fresh technicolor palette; Harold Klunder, for his built-up organic forms and the rawness of his abstract self-portraits; and Francis Bacon for his bold and visceral strokes.
But some yield pigments from jet black to light gray and even green". In addition, soil particles in the paint from gritty sands to fine clays give the works a unique texture not possible with other media.
