Sentences with phrase «as scraps of wood»

Not exact matches

If the new chair had a wooden base we would simply screw the wheels into the new chair and call it a day... as it was we needed to add a few pieces of scrap wood to make a secure base.

Materials • Rubbing alcohol (70 percent isopropyl alcohol) • Measuring spoons • Small bowl • Three long strands of human hair (about 20 centimeters long) • Cotton swabs • Measuring tape or ruler • Thin, flat piece of plastic that can easily be cut (about 8.0 cm long and 8.0 cm wide), such as from the lid of a disposable deli container • Scissors (strong enough to cut the plastic piece) • Dime • Tape • Two small nails • Glue • Scrap piece of wood or flat Styrofoam (about 25 cm long and 10 cm wide) • Hammer • Pencil or pen • Hair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small bowl.

We just took 3 pieces of scrap wood (1 × 6 or 1 × 8 probably) and cut them all to the same length (maybe 15 ″ wide or so), then used smaller scraps (1 × 2) as braces along the back and put screws in them to hold it all together.

Sorry this is so long but I hate to see something turn out badly so as Alicia suggested, always experiment on a scrap piece of wood first.

Check this out: So, as I was getting ready to leave, I saw a pile of scrap wood and asked if I could use some of it.

That's because the Mayflower most likely ended up as scrap wood and may have ended up being used in the construction of an old Quaker Barn in Great Britain!

To watch as they made every little item count — baking ingredients, fabric, scraps of paper, wood etc. — certainly illustrates the excess we have in present day and our dissatisfaction (through Reba's eyes).

The Gili Eco Trust are taking action on the sheer volume of food waste mixed in with every other scrap material such as plastic, wood and metal taken to the dump every day.

This survival horror game is short and sweet, and sees you stalked through the woods by a featureless figure as you search for scraps of paper.

Collection (1954/1955) is the artist's first «Combine painting,» an early type of Combine that hangs on the wall like a traditional painting but reaches into three dimensions with various elements attached to the work's surface — such as the silk veil over the mirror attached just off - center and the found wood scraps along the top edge.

Some early work, which consists of scraps of wood, was made on the roof of her building, which the artist used as a studio.

As part of Nevelson's massive, commanding works of art, the scrap wood takes on majestic proportions, reflecting the artist's personal story of dislocation and self - invention.

The small mirror is there, embedded just off - center and veiled with sheer fabric, and the scraps of wood and metal affixed to the top edge appear just as they do today.

Though he often works on canvas, he frequently incorporates nontraditional materials such as strips of wood, bricks, wire, electric cords, socks, buttons, paper scraps, and even caviar to create his trademark puns and paradoxes.

In the late 1940s, she collected scraps of wood from the street, hacking them away almost carelessly, stacking them as she may.

With sheet metal, tin plate, iron wire, nails, and scraps of wood, he created a life - size guitar, violins, a mandolin, a clarinet, and drinking glasses that elevated the stature of still life to a subject as worthy as portrait heads and standing figures.

Known by the tag name «Twist» for his graffiti and street art, McGee has also developed a career within museums and galleries, exhibiting drawings, paintings, prints, and large - scale, mixed - media installations that take inspiration from urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles, cans of spray paint, signs, scrap wood or metal, surfboards, and other found materials.

As a child, Alexander Calder had his own workshop where he created gadgets and toys from scraps of metal and wood.

Peter Buggenhout, a Belgian artist showing at Gladstone Gallery, covered a junkyard's worth of scrap metal, wood and other found objects with vacuum cleaner dust to create what I described in the review as «massive stacks of debris [that] hang off the wall or sprawl across the floor in a state of dereliction and collapse, monumental castoffs from a world spinning out of control.»

Cutting curves out of scrap wood in the Yale woodshop began as a way of confronting a fear I had about learning.

Typical «found objects» include natural materials like sand (see Sand Art), earth, stones, shells, curiously shaped pieces of wood, a human skull; or man - made items such as newspaper cuttings, photographs, pieces of glass, fragments of scrap metal, pieces of textile fabric, an unmade bed, a bicycle handlebars, and so on.

These small sculptures are installed outdoors on public streets and in nature, as well as in museums, where stones, wood, feathers, shells, and scraps of cloth are suspended in a delicate web, juxtaposed as visual metaphor.

As part of his studio practice, the artist transforms materials such as particleboard, scrap metal, wood, discarded signs, and billboard remnants, breathing new life into these often overlooked and devalued materialAs part of his studio practice, the artist transforms materials such as particleboard, scrap metal, wood, discarded signs, and billboard remnants, breathing new life into these often overlooked and devalued materialas particleboard, scrap metal, wood, discarded signs, and billboard remnants, breathing new life into these often overlooked and devalued materials.

Rick Bartow, at the Missoula Art Museum exhibition of Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation and as part of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation Outreach Program, explains the importance of art and making «something different» out of scraps of wood and materials.

The same can be said of American artist Louise Nevelson, whose large, wooden sculptures, such as her 1979 Untitled, incorporate discarded scraps of wood, which were given to her by friends and others, or which she collected on the street herself.

On display were four «dogleg» - shaped canvases (versions of which were exhibited at James Fuentes Gallery in New York in 2014) and a new series of five sculptural reliefs, as well as several hybrid paintings, composed of multiple canvases joined together and overlaid with various collage elements, such as rope and scraps of wood (all works, 2015).

Sure, designers reuse wood and turn parts of old furniture into new items, but still, leftovers get sawed off and end up as scrap.

As this clip from Geoff Lawton's Urban Permaculture DVD shows, rocket stoves work best on thin bits of wood, which makes them ideal for utilizing scrap wood waste and / or tree prunings and coppiced wood.

As I was working in my workshop the other day, I came across some small scraps of reclaimed barn wood and I immediately had the perfect idea for another decor item: a mini DIY «Boo» Halloween sign.