Sentences with phrase «much old paint»
I even had David help me for awhile, scraping off as much old paint as he could.
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We are in the middle of renovations right now, and I've been taking old coats of paint off our stairs and railings, which has turned out to be much more involved than it sounds.
A quick coat of paint can transform an old dresser or worn, wooden crib into a bold statement piece, giving a rented space some much - needed pizazz.
If that is really the justification — the enoromous costs incurred by families and a society when a child is poisoned — than our efforts are better spent addressing the much more significant cause of childhood lead poisoning — older housing and buildings coated with lead paint.
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.
As I was trying to think of a car craft for my 3 year old, I remembered how much Theo loves sponge painting.
Kids will have so much fun watching the magic as you create DIY watercolors from Skittles candy — and moms, this is a great way to use up some of the candy after Halloween or Valentine's Day Plus, this is an excellent way to create art with 1 year olds or young children, because the paint is taste - safe!
Although lead was banned from from use in household paint back in 1978, much of Buffalo's older housing stock is still covered with it.
For years, Chairman Crowley and New York City Councilman Danny Dromm have joined families and community leaders in Queens to demand much - needed repairs to the 101 - year - old train line, particularly to remediate lead paint peeling from the tracks.
(Got ta remember to send you pics of some of my old work... it might explain why I don't paint much anymore!)
Generally, I'm not too much in favor of painting over old wood, but your project has me rethinking that!
We have painted our old kitchen in light colours now, and it was so much job!
I also painted these tables a color called Old Ochre which is a much lighter color, almost an off white.
I want to try this method, I've been making my own chalk paint, and painted my china cabinet, and used the Minwax dark wax to antique it, it's not for everyone, but the look is just what I want, old world look, not even put it has character, I am doing my coffee table as well, I find very ornate pieces cheap and paint a base cream chalk paint and then go over it with the Minwax dark, let it sit for 15 min and buff, then add another layer of wax, its so much fun, but the problem I'm having is I'm ADD and I have 5 projects going at once!
It's amazing how much better those giant old dressers look with a coat of paint!
I didn't expect to like it so much and it seems to have a much better adherence level than my homemade plaster paint, especially on some of the older french provintial furniture that has the almost «formica» type dresser tops.
It doesn't get much easier than this: A couple of old wooden spoons, some felt, and paint, and you've got two cute bunny decorations.
When the walls and ceiling were finished, I had so much fun fixing up some of the «old and ugly» stuff with a fresh coat of paint.
In contrast to the Hibiscus Red Metallic paint job, the rear receives a black finish much like the old model.
Whilst I was originally happy with the work, after not seeing my car for a couple of months and it being delivered all nice and shiny, I almost immediately drove it through snow in Colorado within the first week after getting it back, and after having it for a couple of months, started feeling dissatisfied that the new paint looks considerably more matte than the old paint, where the old paint looks much more glossy.
2014 continues to exhibit the theme of an old style SUV that when painted olive (Army Green) looks very much like a military vehicle.
It is finished in its original two - tone Black and Tan that looks especially nice even three decades after it was applied by Tiffany Motor Coach but obviously there's much more to the coupe than just paint, cool cars like this that are built in the same tradition of the Excalibur and Zimmer add century - old class and distinction to more modern components, that's where you get the custom swoopy fenders, decorative exterior exhaust ports, 2 exterior spare tires, full - length running boards, and bright wire wheels and of course the classic - style trunk with leather straps but beyond the grandest of grand touring appearance are the fundamentals you want for example, the doors are unaltered from the original Mercury Cougar body, the same goes for much of the main glass and underlying components, so maintaining this one - of - a-kind appearance is much easier than it might first seem.
And then she discovers a pre-Raphaelite painting, hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe, and a window onto the house's shrouded history begins to open... 1849: Imogen Grantham has spent nearly a decade trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man, Arthur.
Much like the often - spouted criticisms of modern art that claim «my two - year - old could paint that on the bedroom wall with the contents of his diaper,» are authors writing this for laughs, or because they are genuinely fed up with what is considered award - winning and best - selling content?
But while most of the deceased Narayan's work had a gentler touch, Shanbhag's novel carries a much darker vein and therefore paints a more realistic picture, while still maintaining an air of old - world manners and charm.
In the old days, lead paint may have contained as much as 30 or 40 % lead — thankfully these paints are no longer available.
Free morning At 13:45 pm A Guided Cusco City Tour, Excursion, visiting Koricancha «The Sun Temple» the golden Inca «s temple that impressed so much to the first spanish conquistadores when they arrived in 1534, Cusco main Cathedral with their exquisite canvas from the Cuzqueña Painting School, chapels, Virgins and Saints, Saqsayhuaman Inca Complex, where every year in June in the winter solstice in this hemisphere the young Cuzqueños perform the old and traditional Feast of the Sun «IntiRaymi» in honor to the Sun, then we visit Tambo Machay, Qenqo and Puca - Pucara.
We don't know too much more than what's shown in the trailer, but that's enough for us: this is old - school Mega Man given a fresh 3D coat of paint, much like Mighty No. 9 but hopefully with a lot more polish and success.
The story of Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings isn't the only part of the game that treads old ground, as the gameplay experience sports pretty much the same features of the previous Mysterious titles, sadly also taking a few steps back from Atelier Firis.
In the end he found what he was looking for, which was not so much a new principle as a more comprehensive one: and it lay not in Nature, but in the essence of art itself, its «abstractness» — the qualities of the medium alone — as a principle of consistency makes no difference: it is there, plain to see in the paintings of his old age.
In the late 20th century, Ivan Albright (1897 — 1983) labored over his gnarled, knobby, time - battered, ultra-real riffs on Old Master paintings, so much so that his subjects appear as petrified substances, witchy and indelible.
The funny thing about painting — I don't think it dates as much as older art.
Referencing the «old masters» of art history and tradition, she creates her own versions, much like Picasso did with Manet's iconic painting, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Having only recently returned to work following a debilitating stroke, her ensemble of recent and older paintings and sculptures was as much a statement of intent as a fully achieved exhibition.
When he paints the horrors of war, a bare - chested man tumbles forward, in the viewer's face — a tribute as much to organized labor as to the showy anatomy and perspective of the Old Masters.
At the press opening, in the conservation studio that has a glorious floor to ceiling wall of glass on the Hudson (light, light, light), a kind and concerned professional explained: «We have put glass on many paintings for the first few months, because, having learned a lesson from the Tate Modern, we are expecting much larger and much different crowds from the old location, people who do not pay attention to their backpacks or care much about the art.»
The paintings and works on paper that comprise Ye's second solo exhibition Animal Portraits echo the age old literary practice of using animals as protagonists such as the much loved Tortoise and the Hare from Aesop's Fables, the legend of Rabbit in the Moon and the complex characters of George Orwell's Animal Farm.
Still today so simple and so old, painting has the capacity to take us from the physicality of the stain and color to much more global concepts.
Barely five months after the Armenian - American painter Arshile Gorky hanged himself in a Connecticut barn after a year of incalculable agony — rectal cancer, a studio fire that destroyed much of his work, separation from his wife, a car crash that snapped his neck and paralysed his painting arm — the world's oldest art magazine chose to publish not a posthumous tribute but a derisively brief dispatch of his final show.
Riley's formally taut, abstract compositions yield a singular sense of visual pleasure for the viewer, a notion derived as much from the artist's formative encounters with Old Master and Impressionist painting as from her early experiences with nature.
After much anticipation and a 19 - minute bidding by an anonymous buyer, Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was sold for whopping $ 460,312,500 with buyer's premium, surpassing the previous holder of the record price for an Old Master painting — Peter Paul Rubens» Massacre of the Innocents ($ 49,5 million).
The great Social Realist painter Raphael Soyer, A 1917, whose family emigrated to NY from Russia, at the turn of the 20th century, pretty much took me under his wing when I was 16 years old; and taught me oil painting.
SG: But, I came out there from the Philadelphia setup, and so did Jim, by the way, but Jim being much older than I was — he was 13 years older — and by the time he got out there, he had already been painting very much like Mondrian for a number of years, and then he changed, too.
The paintings in the show, whose title is «Explorations,» don't reinvent the wheel so much as extend art historical precedents — her artistic intelligence is such that she manages a merger of the old and the new, in which the lyric accomplishments of her milieu and artistic forebears are re-invigorated in an art whose vision is genuinely current.
The 76 - year - old artist has spent his career at odds with the larger trends of German postwar art, devoted to painting while much of the art world's creative energies went into conceptual art, performance and video.
«It is not clear when the essentially formalist notion of inner light became a commonplace in the criticism of Venetian painting of the sixteenth century, but it was certainly a major concern of the Bavarian painter Max Doerner, whose handbook The Materials of the Artist and Their use in Painting, with notes on the Techniques of the Old Masters (1921), had been published in an English translation in New York in 1934 and came to be much used in the circle of the abstract expresspainting of the sixteenth century, but it was certainly a major concern of the Bavarian painter Max Doerner, whose handbook The Materials of the Artist and Their use in Painting, with notes on the Techniques of the Old Masters (1921), had been published in an English translation in New York in 1934 and came to be much used in the circle of the abstract expressPainting, with notes on the Techniques of the Old Masters (1921), had been published in an English translation in New York in 1934 and came to be much used in the circle of the abstract expressionists.
When I was young I always painted after school, so when I was 18 years old and decided to study at university, my first option was cinema, so very much related to creativity.
The idea of painting on photographically based images interests me very much and the act of painting on an old painting was liberating.
Arms and armor, Greek and Roman antiquities, court costumes, old master paintings and much more will be on view, all drawn from the palaces of the Habsburg dynasty.
Despite this abrupt shift in art world attention, however, a notable number of new Canadian painters have pluckily refused to roll over and play dead, and have kept on working with the old stuff and clutter of painting as though not very much has happened.