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The Painting Lesson
by Linda Carson
big black pig studio
98 King St. N., Waterloo Ontario Canada
www.bigblackpig.com
Hard-edged painting
Some paintings—especially geometric, abstract and minimalist—call for crisp distinct edges on shapes. That's hard-edged painting. It's easier said than done, but the invention of masking tape pretty much made the career of Piet Mondrian possible.
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For example: The rods in this gridded grove are painted "hard-edge." |
If you look very closely at a hard-edge painting, you can see the raised ridges of paint where the masking tape formed a temporary dam.
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