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Ricki McKnight, Jasmine Collins, Joe
10/9/2017
Morris louis has series of veil painting that consists of 129 veil paintings. Louis
worked on a small easel scale, rarely more than 36 by 30 inches, using primed linen
canvas. He worked with oil paint until Magna became available to him in 1947.
Initially, he simply applied Magna on the primed linen, working with it as he had
previously worked with oils. In this particular we are looking at it is called Blue Veil.
In the painting Morris Louis uses such as cool colors blue, green, violet, and yellow.
The colors blend so well that it looks liquid. The veils have curved lines that bend and
