He did life drawings and used them for material in his paintings.

Although he used a range of colors in his paintings, the color black has always played a big part in his work.

He also uses Persian miniatures extensively in his paintings after 1979.

As with most professional artists at that time, he used layer coating techniques in his paintings.

The horizontal lines used in his other paintings to create a sense of order here lead the eye through the painting with increasing unease.

Apparently, this led to very interesting psychological implications that Varo later used in her paintings many times.

During this time, he started to use collages in his paintings.

This was rich language that we use in our paintings.

Richard Prince has used similar cartoon bimbos in his paintings, but for very different ends.

West is known to have had a collection of North American artefacts which he used in his paintings.