Abstract painter Sandy Whitby: "I don't know where the end is going to be, what a blank canvas will become. The fun for me is not knowing," she says. BOB OWEN / EXPRESS-NEWS ...

Pendleton uses it in all of the paintings at the Hirshhorn, and while it’s sometimes subsumed by the layers of silkscreen ink, in other places it’s very pronounced, and that’s intentional.

Stone got frustrated staying within the lines and colours in that first paint set and started creating her own abstract paintings using acrylic on canvas. " I love painting in the big scale and it ...