The staining technique with water soluble acrylics made diluted colors sink and hold fast into raw canvas.

Areas of raw canvas between the colors encouraged them to function harmoniously.

It can even be a patch of raw canvas, which paradoxically becomes transformed from background into foreground in "Requiem" (1992).

It helps that the paintings, although planned on a computer, are made without the aid of preliminary pencil lines or tape, directly on raw canvas.

The ocher, or maybe it's raw canvas, seems to weight the painting toward one side.

He has developed a technique which involves the throwing of paint onto raw canvas, to create the start of his paintings.

During the late 1960s developed a spinning rotating machine on which he attached raw canvas and sprayed acrylic paint while the drum spun.

Leaving part of the canvas raw created breathing space, allowing the colors room to resonate.

This show presents earlier works in which bold areas of color are splashed onto raw canvas.

The Color Field artists worked by staining on raw canvas, in close value, high key colors, often large scale.