Sentences with phrase «down old paint»

«Three, four months pregnant, they start sanding down the old paint,» he says.

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There's a growing volume of debris in orbit around the earth, commonly called space junk, that ranges from old spacecraft down to tiny flecks of paint.

Lord knows if the new owners will even keep it; blacktop is easier to take care of, and you don't have pieces get kicked up from the tires and chip the paint of an old hand - me - down Mercury Cougar.

To help your babies calm down without taking away play from their older siblings, start a «quiet time» for your older children with quiet play such as coloring, painting, or reading.

An old wooden bench, for instance, can be completely transformed by sanding down the rough, chipped surface and decorating using weather - proof paints.

Although I really love this pram and how much you pay for it I wouldn't expect after a month old the paint starting to chip off near the wheel which I know is from putting it up and down in concrete so in a car park or driveway.

With this he pivots and stumbles away down the old stone halls of the shop, as generations of his family's menfolk have stumbled before.I follow, and we stop before what Americans would call a cooler, in which Americans might store bottles of beer to toast the thrill of being alive after they've white - water rafted or parked an SUV atop an unclimbable finger of rock in the painted southwestern desert.

Tip: using cardstock becomes a little messy... if you are using chalk paint you can always sand down the sloppy edges and then finish it off with a dry brush technique in the old white to fade some of the those not so nice spots.

So, between unpacking boxes, building and painting, and applying for jobs, I have been tracking down old lease information and hiring and working with a new property manager.

a can of white spray paint to freshen up an old wicker loveseat I received as a hand - me - down last year.

I wanted the main focus of the outfit to be the skirt so I paired it with a simple black button down top from Old Navy, Christiano for Payless pumps and one of my favorite Gucci bags with red roses painted on the front.

Quick question, when you painted it, did you just paint over the old desk, or did you sand it down and all that good stuff?

I just wiped it down with an old rag to remove any dust, and then I started painting.

After sanding the jeep down to remove any old paint and fillers we coated the entire body and all parts with southern polyurethanes epoxy sealer.

When the sisters go to the Canaan Valley to search for paintings mentioned in a document found in an old hotel once owned by their grandparents — paintings that might be Monets — Andrea immediately becomes involved in tracking down a murderer.

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

Seeing him draw, she tells him of a cursed 200 year old painting using the blackest ink ever known from a 1000 year old tree the painter had brought down without approval from the Emperor who had him executed for doing so.

«Jackie» called me for help with her 2 - year - old neutered male cat, Ninja, who destroyed furniture and expensive rugs, pulled down wall hangings and paintings whenever she left the house.

The colorfully painted homes of its Old Town neighborhood, with twisty streets leading down to the harbor, just might be one of the best representations remaining of pre-Revolutionary times.

Tucked away down a small lane in the middle of the town centre, Lani's House by the Ponds (formerly Lani Guesthouse) is a beautiful old Lao house with artful flourishes of antiques, large photos, painting and local handicrafts.

When you begin peeling back the layers of this nearly 500 - year - old city, a textural paradise reveals itself ⎯ down every cobblestone street and through the cracked coats of paints covering the crumbling walls.

In the old days you wouldn't see this happening for a new IP but hey, when the hype train has enough inertia that even Denzel Washington can't stop it you might as well paint hot rod flames down the side.

Previous solo and group exhibitions include: Situations, You Space and Extra Space, Shenzhen (2018); Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (2017); Shut Up and Paint, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2016); Cher (e) s Ami (e) s, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016); The Same Old Fucking Story, Rodeo, London (2016); Tightrope Walk: Painted Images After Abstraction, White Cube, London (2015); Unrealism, The Moore Building, Miami (2015); Burning Down the House, 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2014); This is Not my Beautiful House, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens (2014); Everyday a Stage, Rodeo, Istanbul (2014); System of Objects, DESTE Foundation, Athens (2013); Apostolos Georgiou.

In an old joke, an abstract painting hangs upside down, and no one can tell the difference.

A Christie's spokesperson said the glut of attributions was due to the fact that Old Master drawings are often unsigned and usually less well documented than paintings: «Many of the works were bought 20 — 30 years ago so it's not surprising that advances have been made that now help to narrow down and in many of the cases confirm a revised attribution.

Independent curator Charlotte Eyerman went through old catalogs for the annual juried shows to find paintings, prints and drawings, tracked them down and mounted them on the walls of the museum's mezzanine in the rotunda under a stained glass ceiling.

The 49 - year - old who allegedly stole three paintings from a Williamsburg art gallery before being chased down by the gallery owner, and then apprehended by police, has been indicted and is facing charges of burglary, larceny and robbery of artwork worth $ 10,000.

Whether you want to hunt down mysterious old master paintings or be wowed by the latest contemporary installations, there will be something for everyone.

Ms. Mehretu searched throughout New York for a space big enough to make these paintings before striking a deal with real estate developers to use the church, just down the street from where she lives with her spouse, Jessica Rankin, and their 12 - and 6 - year - old sons.

A 36 - year - old Denver woman, apparently drunk, leaned against an iconic Clyfford Still painting worth more than $ 30 million last week, punched it, slid down it and urinated on herself, according to a criminal case against Carmen Lucette Tisch.

The old beams from the demolished warehouses cut down and sat upright as stelae had the breadth to bear just one word, such as «Moon» or «Orb,» or «Soul» and «Mate,» as did some of my first word paintings i.e. the diptych panels «Eat» and «Die,» but the sheer expanse of the wide canvases led to the proliferation of the word and whole passages and wheels of words appeared.

Exploring the fraught relationship of an increasingly modernized China to its cultural heritage, Ai began creating works that irrevocably transformed centuries - old Chinese artifacts — for instance, a Han dynasty urn onto which he painted the Coca - Cola logo (1994) and pieces of Ming - and Qing - era furniture broken down and reassembled into various nonfunctional configurations.

«I guess it comes down to van Gogh's painting of a pair of old boots,» Baldessari says in the video, premiering here on Vogue.com.

And I don't care what Clem Greenberg or Emmerich says or does or shows or doesn't show, Hofmann was part of that other culture, that whole thing of constructing paintings, of the whole old culture kind of painting, that Cubist - based painting culture which Clem used to put down so hard and all so Hofmann becomes something else that's okay.

The tradition of painters portraying their fellow artists at work is old and distinguished one, encompassing John Singer Sargent's sun - dappled view of Claude Monet painting au plein air and Gauguin's rendition of van Gogh turbulently laying down a sunflower.

Of the eight paintings on display, four have been created especially for the Turner Prize; The Devil Made Me Do It, an unusually pastoral image of woodland; The New Houses, an ironic depiction of a suburban wasteland; The Same old Crap, a murky night scene; and Shut up, a shop window with its shutters down, closed for business.

Ms. Abney impressed with her jazzy yet nuanced paintings from the moment she emerged in a 2007 group show at this same gallery, and despite some high - profile accomplishments — her work was immediately snapped up by the esteemed Rubell Collection and she's currently in the historic «30 Americans» exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. — the reserved 33 - year - old has kept her head down and refined her craft with an almost fierce dedication.

A Buffalo family who wrapped up an old painting after it got knocked down by kids playing ball — 27 years ago — recently unearthed it from behind their couch, only to discover it may be an original painting by the master!

Now there is not only one, it was an entire collection where he dredged up decades old paintings that he sanded down and sort of refinished.

2014 EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, Ct, Out of Line William - Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA, TRASHED 2013 The Orison Project, Essex, CT, TRASHED 2012 Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, Recent Paintngs William - Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA, STICK IT 2011 Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, HOSE ME EO Art Lab, Chester, CT, STICK IT 2010 William - Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2009 EO Art Lab, Chester, CT, Hose Me 2007 EO Art Lab, Chester, CT, Laid Rubber Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, Tie Me Down 2006 Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, Leaners and Hangers 2004 University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery of Art, Landscape 2002 University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery of Art, New Paintings 2000 University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery of Art, The C Word 1995 Viridian Gallery, New York, NY, Mixed Landscape 1991 Queens College Art Center, Queens, NY, Between Something and Nothing Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT, Between Something and Nothing 1988 Bratton Gallery, New York, NY, Yesturday I Found My Soul 1986 Cummings Art Center, Connecticut Collage, New London, CT, Illuminated Paintings Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT, Illuminated Paintings

SOLO SHOWS 2014 EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, Ct, Out of Line William - Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA, TRASHED 2013 The Orison Project, Essex, CT, TRASHED 2012 Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, Recent Paintngs William - Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA, STICK IT 2011 Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, HOSE ME EO Art Lab, Chester, CT, STICK IT 2010 William - Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2009 EO Art Lab, Chester, CT, Hose Me 2007 EO Art Lab, Chester, CT, Laid Rubber Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, Tie Me Down 2006 Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, Leaners and Hangers 2004 University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery of Art, Landscape 2002 University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery of Art, New Paintings 2000 University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery of Art, The C Word 1995 Viridian Gallery, New York, NY, Mixed Landscape 1991 Queens College Art Center, Queens, NY, Between Something and Nothing Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT, Between Something and Nothing 1988 Bratton Gallery, New York, NY, Yesturday I Found My Soul 1986 Cummings Art Center, Connecticut Collage, New London, CT, Illuminated Paintings Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT, Illuminated Paintings MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS 2011 Housatonic Museum of Art, SLASH, group exhibition 2000 Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT (Juror: Lauren Ross, White Columns Gallery, NY, NY, NEW ART ANNUAL 2000) 1997 Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT Solo Show Award (Juror: Ann Philbin, Director of The Drawing Center NY, NY, New Art Annual 1997) 1996 Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT 4 Winners Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT (Juror: Jill Snyder, Director of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, CT, New Art Annual 1996) Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT (Juror: Dorothy Mayhall, Director, Stamford Museum and Nature

Just a little side note... My mother had bought the Vasari paints and I have to say we did a little paint test between 4 brands, which included Vasari, Old Holland, Michael Harding, Winsor Newton and hand down your paint was the most exceptional in different applications.

I've spent a lot of time before, going down blind alleys, just learning how to paint, not knowing about painting sinking, not knowing about keeping the paint really thin, if you look at old masters the paint is really, really thin.

New Jersey Hospitals Going Green Hospitals across New Jersey are adding things like «vegetative roofs, solar panels, cogeneration units, giant sun - deflecting louvers, [and] non-toxic paints» to their green repertoire to both improve the indoor health of these old buildings, as well as improve the mental health of patients and cut down on electric bills.

All it takes is an old hook or busted nail and those items could come crashing down on your car, cracking windshields, chipping paint, or denting your car's hood, roof, and side panels.

And yet, many organizations simply paint a «new economy» façade on a rigid old top - down hierarchy paradigm and expect people to thrive.

-- Be aware of tactics used by disreputable painters, which include using cheap paint while charging for such premium brands, watering down paint, using old paint and low - balling estimates in order to charge more later.

The line comes in 10 vibrant colors and can be diluted with a splash of water down to a gel, stain, glaze, or tint - making it perfect for simple painting projects, or something more complex like refurbishing old furniture.

My kitchen is still a work in progress but the old oak cabinets will be painted white and the cabinet to the right of the sink above the dishwasher and between the window and patio door will be taken down for open shelves (another inspiration from your last kitchen).

A couple of people asked about the table we're using as a vanity, so I thought I'd re-post this picture Kevin took of it right after he sanded down the top, chopped off the back legs and painted the front legs: We loved the idea of salvaging an old farm table to use as a -LSB-...]