They used glass, stainless steel, ceramic tile, flexible polymer sheets and even a mug to demonstrate how well the paint works.

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He does so now with his left hand, since his right (which he used to paint his most famous works, including the Conan oeuvre) has been incapacitated by strokes.

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Now that Ushio is sober, and actively making large-scale works using paint and boxing gloves, Noriko has begun flourishing in her own career, documenting their life in illustrations for a graphic novel that exposes their intimate secrets.

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Conservatives--allow me to paint them with a broad brush--believe capitalism works best when it is spun with golden moral threads, when it weaves in those old values learned in church, charities, service clubs and the like.

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Elephant dung is one of many materials the artist uses in his works, which draw on collage techniques and employ acrylic paint, paper collage, glitter and map pins on canvas.

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Other works have marine references that shimmer with lightly layered, translucent streaks of paint.

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And while these works may seem ephemeral - often made from sand and mud rather than canvas and paint, their creators clearly expect them to survive beyond the next exhibition, leaving detailed instructions of how to recreate the work, and often rebuilding it themselves (as Turner nominee Karla Black did last week with her powder and make-up creation on the floor of Tramway).

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