Sentences with phrase «like paint thinner»

«I suspect the rumor about combustible materials being found in either his car of the building probably comes from the fact that detectives found a white plastic antifreeze can, three quarters full, in the building, and that the police lab report identified the fluid as a petroleum distillate, a solvent, like paint thinner.»

Toluene is naturally found in crude oil, and is used in products like paint thinner, hair dyes, and nail polish.

I have never bought a toy that smelled like paint thinner, but this stunk up the room as soon as we opened it!

Not exact matches

This mixture should be smooth and thin just like paint.

The QEESI isolates sensitivities to common triggers, such as diesel, paint thinner, foods and products like fabric softener.

After a few yards, Kool kneels and points to blotches of stone that seem to drip like a bad paint job into the cliff's thin horizontal layers of stone.

Chlorine Cuisine If they make their way into the groundwater, chlorinated wastes, like those found in dry - cleaning fluids and paint thinner, can cause liver problems and cancer in people.

That's why I like to thin it out a bit with a few drops of water before sliding it onto my face with my fingers (painting it on with a brush just doesn't work).

For this project, you'll need: Plastic Easter eggs Large, glass container Tall, thin drinking glass (I used a pilsner glass) Sticks, either purchased or fresh (You can even spray paint them like I did here.)

What I usually do with large projects is paint the first coat and then add a little water to the paint container to thin it (just a bit, like maybe 1 - 2 Tablespoons).

Mine was not thin but you can add a little more of the latex paint to it until it is the consistency you like!

Bottle says antiquing wax, however it is thin like paint and doesn't apply well.

When I've found dark» wax» locally it as thin like paint.

Not fearless enough to nose the camera in the dramatic mire, like a soldier to the cause in a personal guerrilla war, Diego Luna «s film beckons a paint - by - numbers summary of the man's greatest achievements, the spark notes of a six - plus year period that glosses all with thin coats, rarely taking the opportunity to remain in the moment and settle in with the hard - won emotional beats of the characters.

The two - tone paint (Cosmic White and Java Pearl in case you're wondering), elongated back windows and strong shoulders ensure it's handsome in a chunky, upright way, but details like the square grille and glass tailgate serve to emphasise the car's vertical height next to the Scirocco, where the styling cues (shallow back window, wafer - thin grille) move horizontally.

The only image released so far reveals the concept's dynamic side profile, with details like the floating roof painted in a different color than the rest of the bodywork, the thin, horizontal light units, and a crisp crease crossing the entire side of the vehicle.

All cleaning solutions and other chemicals, like bleach and paint thinner, which are poisonous to humans, are poisonous to animals as well.

Truly, Splatoon's distinctive elements don't feel like a thin coat of paint atop an existing formula.

In other works, the paint is sheer and thin, like a wash.

For opaque colours this can be painted as thickly as you like, but for the purple freesias a very thin wash is needed.

Like Krasner's «Little Image» paintings, they eschew the big, swashbuckling gestures of textbook Abstract Expressionism in favor of a wiry sgraffito (or occasionally, in Krasner's case, a thin and tightly controlled drip).

Like Louis in his «veil» paintings, Lawlor merges thin layers of pigment in ways that create emotional entities that embody rather than convey deep feeling.

Where Pollock had used enamel that rested on raw canvas like skin, Ms. Frankenthaler poured turpentine - thinned paint in watery washes onto the raw canvas so that it soaked into the fabric weave, becoming one with it.

Known for her vocabulary of schematic linear constructions evocative of fantastic structures, tight to loose linear coils, and flat, template - like shapes, Greenbaum has steadily moved from drawing in thin paint on white grounds to layering the surface with different structures and gestures.

I wasn't satisfied with a painted illusionistic texture and so I carefully extruded thin thread - like lines of oil paint out of a little plastic bag to re-create the three - dimensional terry cloth texture that I desired.

Present in each of his figure paintings is the thin red outline of a looming, seemingly sinister spirit - like figure called the «seeker,» which the artist includes to suggest the seeping of the outside world into the intimate, interior world.

My current work has a multi-colored woven - like surface, and as I lay each thin line of it down it goes from a thicker to a thinner stream of paint and ultimately to a vanishing point.

Like many artists, Rothko also greatly admired Renaissance paintings and their richness of hue and apparent inner glow achieved through the application of multiple layers of thin glazes of color.

Growling, mask - like features appear to emerge from Fecundity (1960), while the mix of thick and thin, sweeping brushstrokes and splatters of paint of Uncaged (1960) creates a mass of energy.

Bradford: That one is called «Friendly Skies» I've been working on it for two years.I enjoy how your paintings earlier paintings had an incredibly layered quality - with what feels like thin pigments on top of thin pigments.

«V (planchette)» (2014), whose smooth aluminum surface is painted a chalky black, swerves from wide at its base to slight at its middle and swells again at its top, resembling an hourglass shape when seen from a certain angle, whereas «X» (2013), is just that, in mirrored and polished stainless steel, with its thin, shiny strips arched upwards, criss - crossing parallel to the surface of the ground, each bending under like strange feet or paws to support itself.

Hammons made off - the - cuff pieces in the East Third Street house, like a series of so - called invisible paintings by tracing the frames of artworks that were already hanging on Cannon's walls, then removing those works from the walls altogether, leaving behind only thin outlines, or, more recently, having Cannon read a poem into an empty beer bottle and then sealing it up and placing it in the freezer.

Like de Kooning's paintings of the period, Baselitz's new works impart a watercolor - like fluidity, achieved through the thinning of oil paints with turpentine and their swift, loose applicatLike de Kooning's paintings of the period, Baselitz's new works impart a watercolor - like fluidity, achieved through the thinning of oil paints with turpentine and their swift, loose applicatlike fluidity, achieved through the thinning of oil paints with turpentine and their swift, loose application.

Ribbon - like and meandering, his lines are elongated and thinned, stretched and pulled impossibly toward the upper right, as they curve their way, path like, toward the painting's upper edge.

Begun before 9/11, Undertones of War looks like nothing so much as the underpainting of a Frank Auerbach: a thin jumble of bad - tempered brushy scribbles on unprimed wood veneer, the painting continuing on to the rough pine frame.

The paintings» wax - like surfaces — built up over weeks and months in thin translucent layers — have a luminous warmth and spatial depth.

She tends to place her subject matter upon the figure and narrative, and employs a unique painting technique by pushing acrylic paint through a thin wire mesh to make rich, fiber - like surfaces.

Like much of the color, those thin patches may make one think of flower petals as much as marble chips, and that labor over a painting's ground may have something in common with tending soil.

Back in her studio, she experimented with thinning and pouring different hues, using oil paint to create watercolor - like washes.

Viewed from the side, the work looks like a thin layer of tumbling paint but it is in fact plaster, cast from a mould and spray - painted a glossy black.

I've spent my whole career rebelling against the Greenberg thing because everyone always said that my paintings were like Helen Frankenthaler's just because I use thin and thick and thin paints and all that.

[1] Usually used with thicker, opaque paints like oils, acrylic, gouache, and tempera, the method is rarely used with «thin» mediums, such as watercolor or dry pastels.

A darker, thinner line of red appears above, like a mirror image that sandwiches the space and creates a world within a world, a wedge of red within the vast red sea of the painting.

Bruce Helander (The Art Economist) writes, «Jill Krutick's gentle and gracious works add enchanting, soulful excitement every day for life... Krutick's unique formula that she follows in her distinctive paintings is to experiment with a variety of gestural brushstrokes, which seem to be in perfect harmony, like a complicated orchestra where a variety of musical components emit a certain collective sound, or in the case of Krutick, create a uniquely complicated gathering of disparate forms with a subliminal ambulatory feeling that makes them seem to skip off the canvas and into thin air.»

He allows the paint to dribble and run in response to gravity, creating an uneven grid - like pattern of broad stripes and thin rivulets, highlighting the energy and atmosphere of the rooms they occupy.

I don't prime them at all, and I work with stained, thin acrylic paint... I've always used acrylic, and I was brought up with it and I like it.

They are now extremely fragile due to Pollock's unconventional use of enamel paint — essentially an industrial or household material (used to coat gutters, not canvases)-- and techniques, which included thinning down the consistency so that he could use a basting syringe, drawing with it «like a giant fountain pen,» as described by Pollock's wife, Lee Krasner.

Barnett Newman, the minimalist before his time, whose paintings strike you with their spectacular simplicity, is presented here as a seeker after sublime religious effects whose art looms over you like a clerestory window and bathes you in thin zips of celestial light.

In these works he used the technique of soak - staining, applying thinned paint onto the canvas to create abstract fields of color, horizontal cloud - like rectangles, which pervade the picture space with their lyrical presence.

Jenkins applied oil paint or thinned acrylic to primed white canvas, typically starting at the corners, and manipulated its flow by adjusting the canvas» position, sometimes also using blade - like devices to direct the paint further.