Use a 5 cm brush to make
painting small legs and spindles easier.
Not exact matches
Supplies: I went to Lowe's and bought some table
legs, metal attachment kits, and a
small can of Valspar flat black
paint all for about $ 35.
The L.A. - based artist's tiny, nearly miniature
paintings are filled with enigmatic narratives — the gaping red mouth of what might be a
small dog; a girl in an opulent bedroom lined with lush jungle - like wallpaper; seven
small horses that gradually rise on their hind
legs, the last one jumping onto a form resembling a fleshy nose.
In the crawlspace closest to the stairs, Messenger of the potato, a
small sculpture made of wax, stick, and oil
paint, strikes a pose with its
legs casually crossed and one arm in the air to beckon the viewer forward.
The 80 - minute performance included a sculpture of a smashed - to - smithereens 1967 Chrysler; Barney performing with a dog sitting in a harness on top of his head; Aimee Mullins, the famous no -
legged athlete who co-starred in one of Barney's epic Cremaster films, outfitted in a full - length glittering silver ball gown on a stretcher atop the car; a
small marching band in terrorist masks and what looked like IRA military uniforms; Barney methodically removing bits of the car's engine and putting them in these weird funeral urns; and, last but not least, a gigantic bull garlanded in flowers with its long, huge horns
painted gold.
RAUGH Furniture: Energetic Accumulator I (detail) 2008 Wood, Tung oil, bronze
legs, rigid wrap,
small glass jars with
paint, paper, metal, fibers, rocks and dried vegetation on carpet 90 1/2 x 119 x 4 1/2 inches (229.9 x 302.3 x 11.4 cm)
From then until his death, in 1980, at 66, * Guston left abstraction behind and made some of the most memorable and influential
paintings of the late 20th century, big and
small: huge, gloppy, opaque - colored images of Ku Klux Klansmen driving around in convertibles, smoking cigars; cyclopes heads, in bed, staring at bare lightbulbs; piles of
legs and shoes; figures hiding under blankets, clutching paintbrushes in bed.