5: Paint Washes with Price
Edmund T. Price
Zimbabwe Hippo (recent years but date unknown)
Acrylic on canvas, w61" x h46" (24" x 18")
From "Acrylicworks 2: Radical Breakthroughs"
Still acrylic today, with contemporary artist Price and a different approach to color washes.
To recap, Kitler in his turkey vulture painting starts with white patches of opaque paint to set the 'texture', and then works over this white with thin color washes. Then he layers more white and repeats. The result is full of depth, and is highly glow-y, like a stained glass window (especially when paired with a dark background).
In Zimbabwe Hippo above, Price starts with a base *color* (no particular texture, apparently) and then builds color washes over top...he also seems to work with much looser washes than Kitler. So rather than stained glass, the effect ends up being a little more opaque and a lot more liquid — acrylic used as bright watercolors, basically. It lets the painting be highly detailed while still being painterly.