Sentences with phrase «old layers of paint»

Is it weird to say that I like how the walls look in the last two photos, with all the old layers of paint?!

Never cut into old layers of paint on a project if you are not 100 % sure it does not contain lead - based paint.

I wanted a smooth finish, so I started fresh by stripping all the old layers of paint using Citri - strip.

I'd like it to be smoother, but I don't want to see the old layer of paint on underneath.

Not exact matches

Old buttondown shirts make great smocks when worn backward with the sleeves cut off, plastic sheeting under the modeling clay construction site can protect the rug, and large sheets of butcher paper over the crafts table can prevent an encrusted layer of multicolored paints or glue.

Lead paint coating the walls in older homes has likely been painted over, perhaps with several layers of paint.

In Arizona's Painted Desert, paleontologist Paul Olsen is drilling into multihued rock layers more than 200 million years old in hopes of confirming his controversial timeline for the late Triassic period.

I planned to do two layers and some distressing, so first I painted a layer of Old Ochre Chalk Paint ®.

-- the boards are all in place and the next layer of paint is on — Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Old 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!

I used a metal scraper to get some of the white paint off, then used custom mixes of MMSMP Shutter gray, ASCP Country Gray, French Linen and Old White, to get this layered, chippy finish.

I like the old looking signs with layers of paint.

I don't normally strip old paint before I paint a piece, but in this case it was necessary, due to the 6 layers of paint that were already in bad shape.

Usually I mix it rather «thin» but recently mixed it thick because I did want a paint mixture that made it possible to actually build up layers of paint for an old European look on a chandelier.

I visited a sixty - three - year - old portrait painter in her studio, traced the history of her work chronicled in her large portfolio, and watched as she applied thin luminous layers of paint to a portrait in progress.

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.

My figures are painted in the method of the old masters, where I build up thin layers of paint over an extended period of time.

The New York - based artist Isca Greenfield - Sanders transforms old slides by scanning and gridding them, and then applying multiple layers of watercolor, colored pencil, or oil paint.

Painted from historical photographs taken from old magazines, family albums and the propagandist publications distributed by the government during the Cultural Revolution, At a time of immense and rapid socio - economic change in China, these works look back at its past, marking a fragile line with delicate layers of ash between individual memory and official historical record.

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.

The variety with which paint is brushed, scraped, layered, piled up and dug into fills these works with markedly distinct passages of paint - handling, in the old - fashioned sense, even while they seem to push paint to new physical limits.

«The paintings layer text in various styles over imagery, including lace overlays, gauzy close - ups of the female body and a sampling of styles from the old - boy - painting network — de Kooning, Fontana, Guston, Morris Louis, Newman, Pollock and Richter,» Tompkins writes of the installation work.

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.

The show is curated by David Manley, who also shows some magnificent paintings, including those on circular aluminium supports that merge layers of polygons, as in Old Sixfiveseven Again, where planes of serial hexagons pentagons and heptagons combine to form a visual, cacophony.

The handful of small drawings and oils from the 1960s looked as layered as Old Masters, as flashy as «action painting,» and as rigorously abstract as one expects for Abstract Expressionism.

Older artists build painting through layers of oil, corresponding to perception's penetration into nature's depths.

I chose them because they are, in many ways, the polar opposite of traditional mediums — a way to take very complex, age - old master's techniques like reverse painting and the glazing and layering of oil paints, exploding them onto modern mediums that speak more to current times.

He also discovered the Maroger method, which enables the artist to use thin layers of paint and techniques similar to those of the Old Masters.

Employing the old technique of «layer painting», Fomenko applies the practice in a modernized way and injects bright primary shades of acrylic paint onto the canvas, before awakening his subjects of surrealism with oils by using broad brushstrokes.

In Description — 2008-9-17 and Description — 2008-9-18, Zhang layers his own thoughts and experiences in a journal - like manner on top of a painted snapshot procured from old Chinese films.

Wilson worked with Venetian craftsmen to develop an innovative process for layering traditional Murano glass mirrors together and also conceived of a technique that reversed the centuries - old mirror making tradition — etching and painting the verso black rather than silver — in order to lend a ghostly appearance to the reflection that the mirror casts.

As he explains on his website: «I use layers of hand cut paper and spray paint to create texture and form - a modern adaptation of an old - fashioned printing process.

Sutphin writes that «Brock cannibalizes old endeavors (his canvases) and sands away layers leaving disjointed fragmentary bits of the paintings former self, revealing a kind of hollowed out other.

Peter Zimmermann (born 1956) borrows the techniques of old masters such as Cranach and Dürer to create superimposed layers of paint that yield a subtly translucent effect.

Kate Eric: One Plus One Minus One Kate Eric is a decade - old collaborative identity comprised of Kate Tedman and Eric Siemens, who methodically take turns as they capture interactions in layers of paint on large - scale canvases.

The first installment of Awol Erizku's Duchamp Detox Clinic, a roving gallery space the 27 - year - old artist created for himself and his emerging peers in Los Angeles, comprises layers of assembled found materials: polyurethane sheets and basketball nets that have been spray - painted, covered in house paint, and then spray - painted again.

The paintings in this series are produced using the classical oil painting methods and materials of the Old Masters — successive layers of warm and cool black pigment glazes varnished to a highly reflective surface resulting in a profoundly deep pictorial space.

A pillowcase, pasted Morrisons shopping bags, a disposable camera photo, paint, a boxy old TV, and moving image showcasing glitched layers of sexualised needle usage happily exist among one another — and the resulting atmosphere isn't immediately recognisable.

Clutter I 2003 is made up of old layers of broken paintings.

In conjunction with his recent solo exhibition at the Charlotte Street gallery in London, Ross Bonfanti's concrete and soft toy sculpture introduce another contrasting texture, the rawness of which complements the richly - layered paintings of Scottish artist Alasdair Wallace and the collage winter scenes of Dione Verulam, crafted from antique book - binding papers and old lithographs.

There is no reason that it can't go on for hundreds of more years; in Toronto's 401 Richmond complex, (see Margie Zeidler: Building Green Incubators) she restored hundreds, which «involved the removal of the old glass, heat stripping to remove the putty and several layers of paint, and then replacement of broken and rotted parts (where possible the old glass was retained).

Our Manhattan and Westchester County lead paint poisoning attorneys tell our clients to be wary of older homes, because the paint may begin to peel or chip, exposing older layers of lead based paint.

Windowsills, doorways and handrails throughout the building were noted to be thick with many layers of paint, giving the potential for older lead paint to be present.

«That hue was taken from a scrap of old hand - painted wallpaper we found under about seven other layers we stripped off,» says innkeeper Joanne Oliver.

I had hoped to find a chippy layer of old white paint beneath the green.

That first coat of green is the same color I had custom - mixed to match our 130 - year old wall boards, but I also want to add one more layer of texture / color, so I'll be painting on a bit of «Layla's Mint» milk paint when it arrives this afternoon.

Her layered textures are reminiscent of tree bark and old peeling paint, and her creations tell such sweet stories of the South.

They were covered with layers and layers of grime and old paint and I thought they might be beyond hope of being salvaged before we took them in to a local powder coating or auto body type shop.

The premium paints and papers are produced in Dorset, England using top - notch ingredients and age - old methods, resulting in products that will add an extra layer of depth, texture and sophistication to your space.

When we moved into our «as is» 1930s house, we had a couple of dozen large old fashioned heat registers on the walls that were showing their age from layers of multi-colored flaky paint.