Sentences with phrase «of troweled»

Moreover, we can track these dual art historical threads into the present, to Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, to Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, for instance — to the former's vaporous fields of elusive cloud - like color space, to the latter's jagged and obdurately physical expanses of troweled pigment.

Chromatically bold and assured, it is a cascade of troweled - on paint strokes that has the flow but — not the syntax of narrative.

His surfaces — gnarled and knotted, as if stirred from molten pigment — feel intimately tormented, but his scenes read like unearthly dreams... Radell focuses more directly on historical subject matter... Such scenes he conjures with heavily reworked surfaces, built up of layers of troweled and scraped paint, sometimes embedded with shreds of burlap.

Director Daniel Sackheim, who cut his helming teeth on numerous episodes of The X-Files, somehow manages to generate an air of suspense even if he sometimes too easily falls in the trap of dropping shady «hints» with all the subtlety and grace of a trowel.

The geometry of the installation — quite beautiful — was in keeping with the purpose of the trowels.

Their hazy centers appear almost vacant of incident, aside from the burnishing of trowel and brushwork, until you slow to the tempo they dictate.

, so I ended up doing most of the troweling - LOL!

The finished texture is smooth, except for where I didn't do a perfect job of troweling - then there's a little texture, but it still looks neat!

Not exact matches

A small, lightweight item like a pair of socks, a garden trowel or camera battery shouldn't cost $ 17 to ship.

That we hold a trowel this way or spread mortar on tile differently than on brick is justified from attempts to transcend or improve upon limitations of our predecessors.

Spread a layer of mustard over the fish — not too thin a layer but don't lay it on with a trowel either.

After deciding the layout of the peppers, dig a small hole with a trowel slightly larger than the root ball of the seedling.

He never calls a spade a trowel and dat's why he's my pal on this site, together with the rest of the very few truthful guys on here.

12 - Green Toys Indoor Gardening Kit — comes with three pots, a tray holder, trowel, three soil discs, and three packs of organic seeds.Made from recycled milk containers.

There were only two of us on the course and clearly my colleague was destined to spend his life in poverty under canvas in the desert, trowel at the ready, whereas I ended up in politics via the City.

An anti-populist idea indeed, no matter how much faux populism Rep. Boehner attempts to trowel on top of the it.

A ceremonial «troweling» launched the next phase of construction at the new MCC downtown campus Tuesday.

The Bronx's Friends of Crotona Park Inc Wins 2015 Golden Trowel Award from NYC's Partnerships for Parks.

She pulls out a clean trowel and attempts to collect some bottom sediment; in the rapid current, it takes a half dozen tries to fill the small vial she will take back to the DNA laboratory of her adviser, environmental engineer Amy Pruden.

CBI Polymers, a Hawaii - based manufacturer of decontamination products, has developed another option called DeconGel, which can be sprayed, troweled, or painted onto any surface.

Because the context is destroyed by digging, interpretation has to begin «at the trowel's edge» — and so Hodder wants a lot of people looking over the shoulder of the person with the trowel.

The device is similar to rapid prototype machines, which have been used for about 15 years to print out three - dimensional plastic models, but the trowels «allowed a new degree of control on the exterior surfaces,» says Khoshnevis.

Tschinkel, 62, rests a moment, then picks up a trowel and pokes sand away from one wall of the pit.

Price noted that all healthy African groups had good sources of animal fat, and that the healthiest groups consumed less, not more, of plant foods; Burkitt and Trowel, however, postulate that the increase in Western diseases among Africans is due to a reduced consumption of plant foods containing dietary fiber.

I chose their beautiful shade of blush called Ella Rose and a neutral called Garden Trowel.

The natural look is much more appealing to men than a trowelling of slap.

Certainly the 1924 Olympics as depicted in the film bear very little resemblance to the modern - day Games; you won't find athletes in 2012 using trowels to dig out their starting marks, or passing each other notes of encouragement.

They're all present and laying it on with a trowel, including Rufus Sewell (star of «Dark City») as the architect Urshu — who has the snitty defiance of a young Tony Curtis — and Geoffrey Rush as Set and Horus» grandfather, the sun god Ra, who lives on an orbital platform in space, and spends eternity using his sun - bolt lance to zap a giant black leviathan - worm that wants to eat its way through the planet.

In anticipation of spring, spread out spring flower bulbs, potting soil, flowerpots, gardening gloves, trowels, and water.

In the shocking world of Backyard, garden club backstabbers use dull gardening trowels, and the little old lady with loppers could be... an iris murderer!

In the 1940s and 1950s the main groups within the Abstract expressionism were the «Gesture Painters» and the «Color - Field Painters», who experimented with new techniques for applying paint: dripping, pouring, throwing, squirting, squeegeeing, and spattering, and with the use of unconventional tools, such as wall paper brushes, sticks, and trowels.

After 3 - 5 coats of gesso, two layers of oil ground are applied with a trowel.

Throughout these demonstrations we are able to observe Scott mix with a sizable trowel, the paint he will need for each study, figuring out on the palette first the approximate colors of the light, stressing value, and how they change and relate to one another, so that he can paint faster once he starts only needing to quickly adjust his mixtures with additional touches of more color or white, using a brush, as each painting progresses.

Pioneering a style of painting where large quantities of coloured paints were thickly applied to the canvas with a trowel, Riopelle gained increasing success and immersion in the Parisian cultural scene.

From the laborer's trowel to the artist's brush, the degree to which aspiration is mediated and informed by both choice of tool and breadth of human extension, are considerations that are foregrounded in William's most recent undertakings.

His paintings employ a traditional technique used in the Chosun Dynasty (1392 — 1897) in which the pigments — in Ha's work, the ochres and dark umbers — are pushed through the weave of the burlap and eventually linen from the opposite side, and then trowelled with a palette knife on the frontal surface.

The paint can be troweled, squeezed from the tube, diluted into a wash, or pressed on with a sheet of paper and pulled off.

He creates this optical play by troweling oil paint onto the face of the canvas and then pulling a stiff bristle brush across its surface in a single stroke achieved through muscle memory.

While Dash literally worries her diminutive textile sculptures to pieces, the majority of these works (all Untitled, 2016)-- composed primarily of stacked or beveled arrangements of jute - stretched canvases, quantities of gessoed or hand - painted fabric, and lengths of twine embedded in or hanging from troweled - on adobe grounds — feature tactile surfaces manipulated by the sure hand of composure.

On a thin board Elise trowels ten to fifteen thin layers of Venetian plaster to create a thick, but delicate, matte foundation.

He creates his paintings by troweling oil paint onto the face of the canvas and then pulls a stiff bristle brush across its surface in one single stroke.

Her first work with Oldenburg came in 1976, when she helped him install his 41 - foot «Trowel I» on the grounds of the Kröller - Müller Museum in Otterlo.

When he met Van Bruggen, Oldenburg was working on one of the first big outdoor steel versions of his basic idea, in this case a giant gardening tool called Trowel 1.

Sliding, pushing, wiping, scraping, troweling thick masses of paint against and across the canvas.

Leonhardt trowels oil paint with the palette knife, adeptly plowing layers of colors upon each other, as farmers might do part to enrich the soil for the next crop.

In a nutshell, what originally seemed extreme — she trowels buckets of paint onto huge canvases with palette knives and squeegees — now looks like a parlor trick.

In «Yellow Wall», for example, an image Carnegie has used several times, of a path vanishing into a leafy tunnel, is dissolved almost to abstraction in a mass of chartreuse paint, trowelled on in great gobs, squeegeed and gouged.

Viewers can see that Wilson's process involves masking off areas and troweling on unnumbered layers of color within them.

In Chrystie 21, for example, a moderately heavy palette knife of white adds just an impasto without the trowel load that made ski slopes in a Hofmann, and a delicate line under a patch of yellow at the upper left hand corner has a wonderful calligraphic snap to it.

With the decisiveness of a marksman, she trowels oil paint to existence, defining forms that are at times stubby vertical trunks or limber acrobatic shapes, but always exuberant impasto.