Sentences with phrase «scrap of wood»

Some early work, which consists of scraps of wood, was made on the roof of her building, which the artist used as a studio.

The little wood banner hanging on the mirror was made from scraps of wood leftover from my plank wall.

Nevelson produced these works at the same time as her monochromatic black, gold and white sculptures, using scraps of wood and metal collected from the streets outside of her Little Italy studio.

In the late 1940s, she collected scraps of wood from the street, hacking them away almost carelessly, stacking them as she may.

Painted on small scraps of wood in the basement of his home during the early morning hours, these works display a distinctive palette and a rare mastery of the medium.

Inspired by Cubism, Nevelson took scraps of wood and other materials found on the street near her studio and assembled them into free - standing and wall - mounted sculpture that she would paint a solid colour — most famously, black or white.

This guy is good with right angles and mitered corners — chopping and aligning found scraps of wood to make simple variations on the circle, the square, and the X's that imply Jungian archetypes.

She collected scraps of wood that washed ashore on the beach in front of her studio in Southold and painted and assembled them into constructions.

She incorporated scraps of the wood she found up there, including castoff cedar shingles from the water tower, a feature of most city buildings, which she painted.

Using hay bales and random scraps of wood we put together an outdoor dining room, pulled the trailer up on the side of the road and started selling barbecue.

Using just scraps of wood and hot embers, our evolutionary cousins figured out how to make tar, a revolutionary adhesive that they used to make formidable spears, chopping tools and other implements by attaching sharp - edged stones to handles, a new study suggests.

For instance, Esteban Vicente (1903 — 2001) elevated scraps of wood from his studio in Bridgehampton to create Divertimienti, small assemblages that transcend their humble materials.

Titled La Petite Ceinture (after the wall that formerly surrounded Paris and that geographically, economically and culturally delineated an inside and out), the plastic aspect of this exhibition comprised a large, architectural, circular structure that, made exclusively of found materials such as scraps of wood, was reminiscent of a skeletal favela and filled the entire main gallery space.

Using slips of paper, newspaper cuttings and sooty scraps of wood, she would create poetic observations of the overlooked objects.

The same can be said of American artist Louise Nevelson, whose large, wooden sculptures, such as her 1979 Untitled, incorporate discarded scraps of wood, which were given to her by friends and others, or which she collected on the street herself.

Burning scraps of wood and tree prunings efficiently, this low tech design provides on - demand hot water with low emissions using basic craftsmanship and reclaimed materials.

From oil paintings and terra - cotta figures, she passed onto collages, made of scraps of wood and metal she would find on the streets.

Inspired by Cubism, Nevelson took scraps of wood and other materials found on the street near her studio and assembled them into free - standing and wall - mounted sculpture that she would paint a solid color — most famously, black or white.

these are very creative — i love that you used scraps of wood!

Made out of leftover barn shingles, a pallet, and scraps of wood from last fall's construction project, she pieced together this little getaway for Annabel, complete with window trim, benches and chairs.

I bend down and follow the scraps of wood for a few metres to the south, but they disappear beneath the mud.

On our right we have a coat rack made from a scrap of wood & coat hooks that were already in the house.

Paint a test swatch on the back of a scrap of wood from the boards to see if the coverage is right.

I'd suggest using a scrap of wood instead of a screwdriver to free the piston.

«Later,» Cookie said, and led Henry stealthily from the woods to the covered wagon, where he cleared away a small space deep in the rear, behind a shallow wall of wooden boxes containing the crumbs of oats and the scraps of wood shavings that had once protected the shells of eggs.

There, scrawled across a scrap of wood in faded paint are the words: «no Foto.»

These elements — wooden trestle tables balanced precariously upon one another, laden down with paper, scraps of wood, television monitors and glowing neon lights — force the viewer to question their own existence, for what are we if not the product of our culture?

This abstract creation features strips of newspaper, fabric samples, scraps of wood and metal, and smeared, dripping oil paints on a six - and - a-half foot tall, eight foot wide canvas.

Attached to the top of the canvas are scraps of wood and pieces of furniture trim, adorned with bits of tin and salvaged fabric.

Her legacy will be perhaps the «shacks» which she creates by first photographing the dwellings, then drawing them with pastel oil sticks and, finally, constructing models of them from scraps of wood and metal.

The small mirror is there, embedded just off - center and veiled with sheer fabric, and the scraps of wood and metal affixed to the top edge appear just as they do today.

Lovingly cobbled together from scraps of wood and tin, twigs, buttons, bottles and such, they are simultaneously poignant memorials to the poverty and struggles of their inhabitants and proud testaments to their resilience.

Recycled pieces of fabric, drapery, scraps of wood, wire, cut cardboard and paper, other photos, painted motifs, yarn, cord, ceramics, and stickers come and go, speaking not of Michelangelo but of a latter - day tween - on - a-budget twist on Giacometti's emaciated sickly figures — suburban sprawl and craft - store spree meet creeping apocalyptic bleakness on the one hand, and tenderness with a sweet attention to detail on the other.

Ms. Merz, who continues to work in her Turin studio, has remained truer to the movement's vow of poverty, opting for copper wire, paraffin, scraps of wood and cardboard throughout her career (although she does have a penchant for gold leaf).

In recent years Hirschhorn made use of a unique «vocabulary» of materials: tape, cardboard, gold and silver aluminium foil, mirrors, plastic, vintage television monitors, and scraps of wood.

Your choice of paint (oils) is very traditional, very painterly, while your choice of surface (scraps of wood) is not.

With sheet metal, tin plate, iron wire, nails, and scraps of wood, he created a life - size guitar, violins, a mandolin, a clarinet, and drinking glasses that elevated the stature of still life to a subject as worthy as portrait heads and standing figures.

Among the must - finds on her list were, as she says, «scraps of drywall, scraps of wood, house paint, and a hot tub.»

As was, for different reasons, the micro-exhibition at LACMA of portraits by self - taught Gullah artist Sam Doyle, who painted on corrugated iron and scraps of wood.

She built boxes and walls from dismantled furniture, ornaments, and scraps of wood that she found on the street, and often painted them in single colors to emphasize the effects of light and shadow.

Rick Bartow, at the Missoula Art Museum exhibition of Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation and as part of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation Outreach Program, explains the importance of art and making «something different» out of scraps of wood and materials.

On display were four «dogleg» - shaped canvases (versions of which were exhibited at James Fuentes Gallery in New York in 2014) and a new series of five sculptural reliefs, as well as several hybrid paintings, composed of multiple canvases joined together and overlaid with various collage elements, such as rope and scraps of wood (all works, 2015).

I am not the person who can take a dresser from the dump and turn it into a shabby chic work of art or take scraps of wood and create a fabulous new picture frame.

You could always use a scrap of wood to test your stain mix.

A surface to stencil on A stencil Painter's tape A paint brush — preferably round and of decent quality Paint for stenciling — I used Fusion Mineral Paint A towel, paper towel, or a scrap of wood to «dab» off extra paint Sandpaper in a fine grit (180 is what I grabbed from my stash)

But, you can always do a test sample on a scrap of wood and adjust accordingly.

Then the plywood L was placed over these scraps of wood and secured with glue and more finishing nails.