Sentences with phrase «attempt at painting»

It is my first attempt at painting furniture and I am so excited b / c it is such a nice old piece.

Leaving aside inherent hypocricy implicit in the assumption of the truth of AGW that follows with mentioning adaptation, the very idea itself is simply a poor attempt at painting over the rust.

In truth, since the Beautiful Inside My Head Forever sale in 2008, Hirst has made several attempts to move on with new art work — there was the ill - fated attempt at painting like Francis Bacon sponsored by Victor Pinchuk and shown at London's Wallace collection — and revive his market with stunts like the global Gagosian show of spot paintings.

After a failed attempt at painting the fabric on this chair, I was ready to call it quits and throw it in the trash.

(which was actually my backup idea as my stencil failed in my first attempt at painting the lanterns)

He made a good attempt at painting it although I had to finish it off.

The first installment, Wax Paintings from the 1970s, which ran in the early spring, featured some of Schnabel's early attempts at painting, somewhere between the time he graduated with a BFA from the University of Houston, in 1973, and his breakthrough 1979 solo show at the Mary Boone Gallery in SoHo.

Not exact matches

Delta attempted to paint the move as an apolitical one and an attempt to stay above the fray in the gun debate, which has been reignited after this month's shooting at a high school in Florida.

Or, at least that's the picture the political pundits paint in their attempts to deconstruct this new political powerhouse: the Canadian millennial.

The model shown in the following painting attempts to diagram the three variables of Price, Expected Return and Uncertainty, resulting in a distribution of actual monthly returns shown at the bottom.

Or, at least that's the picture the political pundits paint in their attempts to deconstruct this new...

The NDP attempted to paint a rosy picture of Alberta's finances and economy at the third quarter update, despite economic indicators and discussions with Albertans suggesting otherwise.

Rather than waving signs at grandparents attempting to get onto campus, we will be planting flowers, painting and picking up trash elsewhere in the city.

It is not a trial nor a witch hunt and any attempt to paint is as such is disingenuous at best.

they have attempted to turned the love and grace of God into a lie... I saw many people who stood in sadness looking at the terrible words they painted on that SUV..

The first hundred and fifty or so pages of his Leviathan show forth his attempt to paint that portrait of human being, but by almost universal agreement, he failed — that is, he could not both present human being as a part of the new nature and at the same time do justice to our direct experience of what it is to be human.

So, if you've spent six months in an orphanage in Romania and your friend has spent one week painting walls in Thailand, you can take advantage of that and wax eloquent on your poverty expertise while mocking your friend's pathetic attempt at social justice via «tweets from Thailand.»

In spite of attempts to paint a vast plot on the part of world Communism to take over and dominate the American Protestant Churches, the best evidence that could be produced pointed to a handful of well - intentioned but sometimes naïve clergy who had at times been used by Communist - front organizations or by the party itself.

He's also got a nifty floater he uses when attacking the paint, converting those at 41 percent on 75 attempts, according to DraftExpress» profile that cited Synergy Sports.

«We posed a big threat to the established parties and they clubbed together and did everything they could to throw mud at us and abuse us... This attempt to paint Ukip out as a bunch of old men with problems about the world frankly doesn't bear comparing to the truth.»

But while the SNP's shift towards constitutional conservatism may be an awkward act to pull off, there is no doubt that the Conservatives will be wary of these reforms being painted as attempts to promote English interests at the expense of Scottish ones.

Their crusade against the public broadcaster has no basic standard of decency, and using its attempt at intellectual consistency as a way of painting it as a weak - willed terrorist sympathiser is apparently well within the rules of the game.

Balls is seen as extremely close to Gordon Brown, and as being opposed to the need for cuts (or at least, this is how the media currently see him and how the Conservatives will attempt to paint him)

Given that this was the decade that saw two whole parliamentary sessions without a single vote being cast against their whip by a member of the governing party, this observation was at least more accurate then than modern - day attempts to paint politicians as a bunch of spineless sheep.

That's a big victory for David Cameron and his repeated attempts at PMQs to paint Mr Brown as unable to take decisions.

The nail may go 1/4 of the way in, seemingly accomplishing the task at first glance, but then will hit the beam and be stuck, and in the end it will be clear that it was a futile attempt to nail the painting into a steel beam, and that a different approach is necessary.

So, this is my first attempt at chalk paint and I'm using your 2Tbs Plaster, 2Tbs Calcium Carb, 2Tbs Water, 2 Cups Paint recipe.

It is ineffably grimy, each shot marred by a patina of unease and an indescribable ugliness that paints every attempt at comedy as vaguely grotesque.

Beatty is painted as an artist at a crossroads, too, in an attempt to trump up the mythology of the picture as a Misfits - like (or Night of the Iguana - like, more to the point) autobiographical sketch for all involved when, if we're being honest with ourselves, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is more along the lines of a carnival - mirror grotesquerie.

Despite the uptick in remakes, it's extremely difficult to identify a few dozen great ones — particularly when you exclude movies like The Thing, which represent the second attempt at adapting a novel — and yet we can't deny that some of the greatest films ever made wouldn't have been possible without slapping a new paint job on an old chassis.

Again, we have more characters than the film really needs — I swear at least five of the dwarfs get a single line each — and the screenplay strays outside the original source material in an attempt to paint a broader picture than Tolkein's initial fairy tale - like novel.

As in all of her recent videos, Carey also shows a lot of skin (though this being a PG -13-rated film, she still leaves some threads on), but her ample cleavage — and the inexplicable streak of silver paint that shows up on various areas of her body — can't distract from her awful attempts at acting, not to mention the already laughable situations in which she finds herself.

Following Van Gogh through failed attempts at school and jobs, the text gently but truthfully presents many of the challenges of his adult life, until painting finally gives him a direction.

And thus, the Big 5, especially Hachette at the moment, are only attempting to paint Amazon as the bad guy because they fear losing their author pipeline — which in turn will render them extinct.

The interior walls of the temple were decorated with wall paintings showing scenes of warriors with captives, a lake, and thatched houses, all with some attempt made at achieving perspective.

Where once pirate ships used to drop anchor, Marigot Bay is now known as a yacht haven, welcoming spectacular vessels up to 160 ft.. This exquisite collage of activity and beauty reaches its pinnacle at sunset, when the entire scene is backlit with the sun's fiery colours, making their last attempt to paint the land before they disappear behind the ocean's edge.

Between a fresh coat of paint and a RTS combat system that aged remarkably well, the remastered game has certainly become a bigger hit than publisher Rebellion's recent attempt at bringing a version of the game to VR on PlayStation.

The Sculptural Method is a dynamic way to paint, and though it requires skill in drawing, it can be attempted at any level.

17 In mid-century France, as in 17th - century Holland, there was a tendency for artists to attempt to achieve some sort of security in a shaky market situation by specializing, by making a career out of a specific subject: animal painting was a very popular field, as the Whites point out, and Rosa Bonheur was no doubt its most accomplished and successful practitioner, followed in popularity only by the Barbizon painter Troyon (who at one time was so pressed for his paintings of cows that he hired another artist to brush in the backgrounds).

Some of the later paintings, particularly the black monochromes, are attempts at, well, something, but they are timorous and flat.

The paintings now at Tate Britain, No Woman No Cry and Blue Devils, they are my Eric Bristow - type attempts to hit the bullseye of things that were going on.»

If the paintings conjured a massive presence, I thought at the time, the language of modeling would operate as an authority figure attempting to bind the more wildly associative or grotesque imagery, usually referring to the human body.

That «brooding maternal wholeness» is what endures in Sobel's paintings and drives exhibitions such as this in an attempt to give that different voice a chance to be heard at last.

An early attempt at recovery of color in his work is seen in Black Reflection (1956) and referred to contemporary paintings of de Kooning and Hans Hofmann.

This sense of sound, and the searching process by which Scully achieves his colors, confirms his statement: «Painting is permanently primitive...»; he attempts to present the viewer not only with separate images or sensations, but with «everything at once.»

Her paintings are in some ways an attempt at making sense of herself as situated in a kind of in - between psychological space:» There's this type of spacial shift that has occurred, and there's a connection, a kind of psychological space, making sense of a place.»

Marjorie Rawle examines how an exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art attempts to draw connections between the paintings of New Orleans - based artist Regina Scully and Edo - period Japanese landscapes.

Hailing from one of Stella's most fruitful artistic moments, Lettre sur les sourds et muets I anticipates the artist's move to three dimensions with its throbbing, tunnel - like composition that at - once affirms its status as a flat painting and attempts to transcend that fact through deft optical maneuvering.

From the expressive paintings and drawings, to digital art, to painted styrofoam towers jabbed with other painted objects, to things that look like a two - year - old's bad attempt at being ironic, to some really interesting explorations across the different media.

After nearly two decades of rigorous experimentation, his abstract paintings reached new levels of technical and conceptual sophistication, hinting at figurative realities whilst simultaneously deflecting all attempts at interpretation.