Sentences with phrase «like painting layers»

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Cakes: More and more couples are opting out of the traditional wedding cake and going for looks that are more unique — like floral patterns hand painted on different tiers or nixing the sweet and going for something more savory with a «cheese» cake, made up of various layers of cheese wheels.

Since the Selecta wooden toys are stained and not painted, they do NOT chip like some other toys we have seen that are heavily coated with yucky paint layers.

They then removed a small sample of paint from the painting's blue walls, which revealed strata of color «exposed like a layer cake,» Casadio said.

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.

It is rather like applying coat after coat of paint — eventually you loose sight of the original object under so many obliterating layers.

Wearing a layer between your pants and your skin (like tucking in your shirt) can help, he says; so can painting over the back of the button with clear nail polish.

Give yourself a doll - like look by painting your curly layered bob striking orange - pink.

I know what it's like to go through so much work stripping layers of paint.....

So I finally made the move into my new house (after hours and hours and layers and layers of painting and priming) and I feel like my normal routine has been out of whack..

I like the way you explained about layering the paint.

I like the old looking signs with layers of paint.

When you play the game on an iPad, the game takes on a new meaning and looks spectacular, almost like a painting come to life and I loved the faux 2.5 D atmosphere which creates this interesting layer system.

Different mixed media painting techniques, using glue, string, card, wax, paper to manipulate and to create texture with acrylic paint Looking at famous artists like Jackson Pollock, Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, John Hoyland and Howard Hodgkin Resources: Acrylic paint, Sponges, sticks, large and small paintbrushes, credit card, string, glue, Punchinella, kebab sticks batik wax, sand, tissue paper, scrap paper and glue guns, Creating a number of different textures with acrylic paint and see what other mixed media layering one can achieve with chalk and oil pastel as well to layer over the acrylic paint.

Just like the lip, most of the apron is finished in gloss carbon - fiber, with only the center section painted in the three - layer metallic red that covers most of the body.

Carved words, like a prisoner's inside a cell, through layers of peeling yellow, then blue, then white, the fresh words sliced through decades of paint: Kill me now.

This can be fairly cheap and easy things like a DIY new layer of paint every 5 - 15 years, or large jobs like drainage or a roof replacement every several decades, but either way, it's a monetary outlay.

It certainly shares elements with other horror visual novels like Zero Escape — particularly in the way its story peels back layer by layer, slowly dissolving the painting and then the frame itself — but it ultimately has more in common with genre - benders like Undertale and Pony Island than its Japanese counterparts.

Its more than just a new layer of paint and some bloom effects; everything looks like its been completely redone.

The Brooklyn show includes Whitten's Birmingham 1964, in which a newspaper photograph of a confrontation in Birmingham is partially revealed under layers of stocking mesh and black oil paint, like a wound that can't be covered over.

«I've always liked the physicality of paint,» says the artist Angel Otero, who transforms liquid material into thick - yet - elegant layers, or «oil skins,» as he calls them.

Connors mostly uses raw canvas, often taking rubbings from his studio floor, pouring layers of paint into the fabric like dye, or using one wet painting to imprint another.

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.

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.

Sharply juxtaposing abstract interludes with scenes of love and intense desire, the paintings layer textures and color forms in ways that appear almost collage - like in their spatial complexity.

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.

Important paintings on view from this period include Blue Cradle (1956) and Thursday (1960), which feature strong colors and gestures, as well as Crossfield I (1968), which hints at the final phase of Tworkov's career in its grid - like structure and layered lines.

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.

But when seen up close, what look like Impressionistic brushstrokes reveal themselves to be tiny but precise indentations, carved into surfaces that have been built up with dozens of shimmering layers of acrylic paint.

There's something about the quality of the brushstrokes, the layers of paint and glaze creating depth, and the use of forms that can conjure dreams of a cityscape that feels like his work belongs to both contemporary abstraction and the heyday of Abstract Expressionism.

All are pushed in the direction of bodily mimesis through considered assemblage, the creationof orifice - like holes and phallic protrusions, andby layering and staining with fleshy - colored paint.

Rail: How did you arrive at this technique of creating tessera out of layers of paint, building your paintings like a kind of visual masonry?

Conversely, I once saw a very small painting by Jake Berthot, a pocket - book - size picture that was a complex layering of different greys with some wonderful reds breaking through the field and also at the edges of the canvas — it seemed like I was looking at something almost infinite in its dimensions.

While Stella's «Black Paintings» like The Marriage of Reason and Squalor eliminated depth, the layering of paint also grew darker in the 1970s and 1980s with Brice Marden and Sean Scully.

Since his bravura institutional outing in 1997 at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Melgaard's forté has been crass, crudely drawn, graffiti - like images of, and writings about, bareback and interracial gay sex — «hate fucking,» «gay terrorism,» «white Daddy dick,» «big fat black dick,» «straight cock,» and other delightful variations on the theme, all layered and scrawled on paintings, old beds, couches spilling over with posters, and other messy piles of carefully amalgamated bric - a-brac.

But whereas the work of those artists achieves a meaningful dissonance through a sundry aggregation of disjunctive motifs, Picabia's layered images serve to reinforce one another within each painting, coalescing in their signification into a unified expression or theme: in one case it is the seductive menace of his Portrait of Kiki (ca. 1938 - 40), a demimonde figure painted in lurid yellows and greens with a spider form imposed over her face; in another it is the cheesy eroticism of Reve (ca. 1935), an image of a sleeping woman about to be kissed imposed over a nude standing (like Botticelli's Venus, but with arms upraised) on the surface of the waves.

This exhibition presents Nakao's elaborately layered, collaged paintings, which incorporate fabric, stitching, lace and stickers as well as motifs such as butterflies and doll like figures.

So I built these paintings in layers, kind of like carpentry, using felt, paper, canvas and wood like you would in a collage, only in a more geometrical pattern.

«The layering of unstretched works is pushing her more in that way, her paintings become more like murals.»

Mental maps form the basis of his working method: they push against the edges of the picture plane; his larger paintings exceed a strictly 2D plane, being more like relief sculptures, employing layer upon layer of collaged forms — abstract painting, ephemera from travel, photography and juxtaposed linear structures — to denote the performative aspect of his initial research.

In these paintings the palette is earthy, the black layered on brown and ochre shades, but even in a work like Black Moves (1964), the dark tones are animated by contrast with a small triangle of red, and some delicate small dotting of yellow.

Influenced by the loose washes of traditional Chinese brush painting, Zhang dilutes his paint until it is almost like a glaze, leaving pencil - drawn grids visible beneath the layers of paint.

Like an event occurs in time, a layer composed of tape and paint is created.

Artist Mark Bradford moves past a traditional definition of painting with his palimpsest - like canvases comprising layers of collaged and painted material that the artist sands, slices, and lacquers.

The surfaces of her pictures are built from layers of acrylic paint, charcoal and coloured pencil in vintage, jewel - like colours: mahogany and maroon, peach and lime, ice - blue and old rose.

From far away, his paintings look like collage, which makes them all the more impressive when you walk up close and see the paint hardened and layered into and on top of one another.

Kelley brings to these projects an ironic sensibility and stringent conceptual processes, tending to layer the accepted high - art practices like painting with craft, working class and popular culture references.

Braque also calls attention to the canvas by adding sand to the ground layers to form a stucco - like surface and combing through wet paint in areas of the table to replicate a wood grain effect.

And, like rogue drones, imagery and structural anomalies land in the composition and there — anchored among layers of hand drawn lines and surface embellishments — they become paintings.

For my DJ set, I have chosen songs whose titles specifically reference certain colors, and I will layer and juxtapose those songs in ways that evoke specific Bess paintings like

This body of work can be grouped into two categories: watercolors with web - like black lines interwoven over masses of color suggesting successive layers of depth, and oil paintings of extremely heavy consistency in which controlled randomness allows for the appearance of an unconscious, interior landscape or what the French surrealist artists called an «inscape.»