Acrylic

J C Leyendecker

J C Leyendecker makes the application of paint appear as part of the design, with strokes of colour defining the form in his paintings the way hatching is used in drawings. The artist's figures have a sharp, angular geometry, enhancing seemingly simple things like folds in clothes. Leyendecker reportedly worked in stages, creating many small-scale studies from which he would then construct the whole using the traditional technique of “squaring up” to transfer to the larger canvas.