Sentences with phrase «paint empty houses»

The project is a collaboration with the residents of a rundown council housing estate to clean up the neighbourhood, paint empty houses and establish a local market.

I was lucky and got to paint an empty house since we still had our apartment... not so lucky that we had to double up on rent and mortgage for a month or two.

Not exact matches

Reading To celebrate Read Across America Day on March 2, get a large empty box, paint and cut it to look like a tree house.

There were children running and playing along the highway in their bare feet; locals bicycling through the village; thin and sad - looking dogs roaming around and laying in the middle of the road; lots of garbage and litter scattered along the side of the road; abandoned buildings with jungle growth creeping inside them and graffiti on the exterior; open - air handicraft markets selling typical Mexican souvenirs and blankets in a variety of vibrant colours; empty bus stops covered in graffiti; small, open - air and simple restaurants with red Coca Cola signs on the exterior, and matching tables and chairs serving authentic cuisine; locals cooking and serving fresh meat on a barbeque along the road; a small park and square; narrow gravel roads stemming off of the highway to the remainder of the village; and tiny one - room houses with either thatched roofs and wooden panels on the sides or square white painted houses with a flat roof, barred windows and always a satellite dish on top.

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.

They are instead both — miraculously integrated, as only an artist who built an adobe house for herself and also aspired to empty her mind of thought while painting could do.

Born 1987, Gainesville, FL Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY Education 2012 New York Studio School, MFA 2009 Amherst College, BA Selected Solo Exhibitions 2015 Eleanor Ray: Paintings, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY 2014 Eleanor Ray: Paintings, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY 2013 Eleanor Ray: Paintings, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 Fred Reichman with Eleanor Ray, The Landing, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Feast of Planes, Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA The Thing Itself, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ Not in One Day, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Improvised Showboat # 5, New York, NY Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 2014 Beyond the Pale, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY City as Subject, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY BRIC Biennial: Volume I, Downtown Edition, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY Cool and Dark, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL Between Matter and Experience, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2013 On the Horizon, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY Alumni Exhibition, New York Studio School, New York, NY Dooroomwindow, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY Gathering Place, No Longer Empty, New York, NY Traces of Omnipresence, 308 at 156 Project Artspace, New York, NY 2012 A.I.R. Gallery's 10th Biennial, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Studio School, New York, NY Recent Paintings: Eleanor Ray and Jacob Stilley, New York Studio School, New York, NY

Her eloquent artist's statement offers other clues to understanding her intention when looking at the work: «The disciplines of painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography help me create an exterior landscape that offers balance, tranquility and a respite from an internal world, houses that we know may not be empty or simple inside.»

The Renoir Sucks at Painting movement was inspired after Geller visited the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, which houses a large collection of Renoir paintings, or, as Geller called them, «empty calorie - laden steaming piles».

We move from the empty frame of Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1890), confiscated by the Nazis from Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 1937, to the video There Is a Criminal Touch to Art (1976), documenting how Ulay stole a Biedermeier painting from the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and installed it in the house of a Kreuzberg - based Turkish family.

Anselm Kiefer's 1972 picture of an empty wooden room isn't only a painting of receding interior space; it's the 27 - year - old clearing the psychic skeletons from the attic and dreaming of an undiscovered room in the house of painting.

Poor Barbie is disconsolate as her dream house is emptied and her furniture recalled by Mattel for lead paint remediation.

They welcome the next family to their «lab» with the lure and bait painted to look like justice, and best interest of the child so that they can reel in the catch and with forked tongues and empty promise that you each will win and your child's best will be achieved the cash cow is led to the slaughter house and they make a double killing that simply grows and empowers the giant anaconda to repeat the same.

Linking with: Pieced Pastimes, Life on Lakeshore Drive, Coastal Charm, Dwellings - Heart of Your Home, Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, Stone Gable, Confessions of a Plate Addict, Worthing Court, Between Naps on the Porch, Cedar Hill Farmhouse, A Stroll Thru Life, The Charm of Home, Katherines Corner, Vintage Mama's Cottage, Marilyn's Treats, Peonies & Orange Blossoms, Eclectic Red Barn, Share Your Cup, 21 Rosemary Lane, The Vintage Nest, The Essence Of Home, Feathering My Empty Nest, Kingsbury Brook Farm, The Red Painted Cottage, Love Of Home, My Soulful Home, Celebrating Everyday Life, Little Farmstead, Starfish Cottage, Rattlebridge Farm, Rustic & Refined, The Freckled Rose, Life and Linda, DIY 180, The Stonybrook House, Celebrate & Decorate, Sweet Sensations, The Dedicated House

Often when clients are in this empty house scenario, their anxiety and indecision is heightened because their expectations of the paint colour are too great.

Cooked bacon sandwiches for Sprogs» breakfast (to remove temptation from fridge for The Great Famine of 2012); did grocery shopping; bought Husband six - pack of beer for New Year's Eve party; bought chooks 25 kg bag of scratch mix; staggered to car with 25 kg bag of scratch mix; washed and hung out two loads of washing; filled recycling bin with empty bottles and cartons; baked eggshells to make grit for chooks; assembled wraps for Husband and Sprogs for lunch; baked banana bread to use up manky banana supplies; baked biscuits with Sprog 2, who doesn't like banana bread; shut back door 50 times to stop plague of mozzies getting in; shut front door 20 times to stop plague of mozzies getting in; killed lots of mozzies; threw out old magazines and newspapers; put crap away from recent car trip; cleaned chook shit out of chook house; sorted three baskets of clean laundry; unpacked and repacked diswasher; returned to supermarket for forgotten essentials: toilet paper, broccoli, sparklers and last shot of caffeine before The Great Famine of 2012; cooked dinner; washed Sprogs» hair and painted Sprog 2's toenails rainbow colours for New Year's Eve party; copped grief from Husband for painting Sprog 2's toenails (some sexualisation nonsense); went to New Year's Eve Party; reluctantly abandoned third glass of French champagne after being reminded of designated driver status; drove Husband and Sprogs home from New Year's Eve party; took Unisom; collapsed in bed at 11.50 pm.

Every discarded piece of furniture on the side of the road, every empty house needing a new life, every blank canvas waiting for paint.

Since I pretty much emptied my entire house and all my walls in order to freshen up paint and rooms recently, I was able to pull from a few different collections of wall items and bring things together that seemed pleasing to my eyes.

We're getting the house ready to put on the market, so the «to do» list is endless... tidy up the landscaping, new carpets, new paint, and of course empty a very packed and totally unorganized garage — the thought of which makes me want to hide in a closet!

There are also two rusty metal signs with a hand - painted picture of a cowboy on them which were found in the dark basement of an empty house.

I pulled out three almost empty bags of milk paint, Miss Mustard Seed's Shutter Grey and Eulalie's Sky and Homestead House's Upper Canada Green and started mixing.

Linking with: Pieced Pastimes, Life on Lakeshore Drive, Coastal Charm, Dwellings - Heart of Your Home, Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, Stone Gable, Confessions of a Plate Addict, Worthing Court, Between Naps on the Porch, Cedar Hill Farmhouse, A Stroll Thru Life, The Charm of Home, Katherines Corner, Vintage Mama's Cottage, Marilyn's Treats, Peonies & Orange Blossoms, Eclectic Red Barn, Share Your Cup, 21 Rosemary Lane, The Vintage Nest, The Essence Of Home, Feathering My Empty Nest, Kingsbury Brook Farm, The Red Painted Cottage, Love Of Home, My Soulful Home, Celebrating Everyday Life, Little Farmstead, Starfish Cottage, Rattlebridge Farm, Rustic & Refined, The Freckled Rose, Life and Linda, DIY 180, The Stonybrook House, Celebrate & Decorate, Sweet Sensations, The Dedicated House, Jodie Fitz