There are active gestural marks unifying the positive and negative spaces. The surface is very active, both the positive space - the heart-shape - and the negative space - the background.(Read Understanding Color and Color Mixing) Often the surface is broken up into multiple areas of different colors, and layers of colors. Dine uses a lot of bright, saturated color, often placing complementary colors side by side.He has a very painterly and intuitive approach to applying the material to the surface. Some edges are soft (or lost), some edges are hard (or found), with colors bleeding from the heart into the background. His draughtsmanship is precise but his drawing and painting are loose and experimental.
Particularly in his larger paintings he intersperses and balances areas of textural detail with areas of thick impasto color. Dine creates different textural areas in his paintings through his different forms of mark-making.He has said, "There's nothing as pleasurable for me as making marks, you know, of drawing, using your hands. Dine has always had an interest in mark-making.
either by putting things on top of or by removing through abrasion." (6) He has said, "My method has always been to correct. He paints and wipes away, or removes layers of paint through sanding or other means of abrasion, leaving traces of previous layers.
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