Sentences with phrase «scrap pieces of material»

Often times stone and tile stores have scrap pieces of material (granite, quartz, etc.) from projects that didn't require the entire slab.

Not exact matches

This is a very simple project that uses any sized pieces of scrap wood and just a few other materials.

Materials • Rubbing alcohol (70 percent isopropyl alcohol) • Measuring spoons • Small bowl • Three long strands of human hair (about 20 centimeters long) • Cotton swabs • Measuring tape or ruler • Thin, flat piece of plastic that can easily be cut (about 8.0 cm long and 8.0 cm wide), such as from the lid of a disposable deli container • Scissors (strong enough to cut the plastic piece) • Dime • Tape • Two small nails • Glue • Scrap piece of wood or flat Styrofoam (about 25 cm long and 10 cm wide) • Hammer • Pencil or pen • Hair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small bowl.

Spanning two floors of the 24 Grafton Street location in London, the exhibition will feature works that relate to the artist's ongoing series of «collage sculptures» begun in 2016, characterized by square steel tubing that has been crushed and bent into soft folds that belie their material construction, then painted in a uniform color and variably combined with found pieces of scrap metal and a smooth, highly polished steel disk.

At first the installation appears to be large pieces of scrap material and paper that have been cut, clumsily painted and tacked to the wall in three over-sized sections.

He uses found objects or scrap materials of scientific experiments to make his pieces: he wants to emphasize that creativity is the essential force of life and through recycling of materials, he stresses that creativity often stems from a process of destruction or an experiment.

Using materials that felt familiar from use - scraps of fabric, wood, string, wire, pieces from children's games, printed labels and other discarded items - artist and Holocaust survivor Hannelore Baron (1926 - 1987) constructed intimately scaled works that offer glimpses into history, the human condition and the artist's past.

The day was punctuated by trucks arriving to bring pallets, trucks coming to haul away tons of scrap for recycling, trucks picking up art to ship, orders for more materials to complete a 22 piece sale of firebowls that will go to Norway, an interview, a conference call for a major hotel project, etc. if you'd told me I'd be operating like this five years ago I might not have believed it despite the fact that I always had faith that my art was worth pursuing.

The label texts reveal frustratingly little about the cascades of materials where disassembled shoes and biker jackets, bits of wood, metal car parts, pieces of bicycles, and unidentifiable scraps emerge, offering just the words «mixed media.»

June 14 through August 11, 2013 During the Smoky Hill River Festival, New York City - based visual artist Sharon Louden transformed the Oakdale Park practice court into a living room furnished with sculptural objects created from found pieces of furniture, repurposed scraps of discarded material, and paint.

In his performance, Daniel Knorr pastes pieces of scrap materials to the pages of his artist book, which he sells at EUR 80 a piece, to fund his work «Expiration Movement Manifest».

Typical «found objects» include natural materials like sand (see Sand Art), earth, stones, shells, curiously shaped pieces of wood, a human skull; or man - made items such as newspaper cuttings, photographs, pieces of glass, fragments of scrap metal, pieces of textile fabric, an unmade bed, a bicycle handlebars, and so on.

Just a few centimetres in diameter, the fragments that compromise «Darra» (atom) are everyday materials, as simple as chocolate wrappers, pieces of worn blankets, and scraps of electric cable.

The scraps of material used to build the piece often act as stand - ins for drawing materials and techniques, like crosshatching.

She is known for understated yet inventive and enthralling sculptures, typically made from scraps and pieces of fabric, plastic, string, rubber, and other materials.

Here in this series of sculptures emotions are being captured with a hard material made of iron, in fact pieces of scrap metal.

In her 1979 book, More Than Meat Joy, Schneemann describes the piece as having «the character of an erotic rite: the excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chickens, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, rope, brushes, paper scrap» (p. 63).

In here, I will share videos to upcycle every piece of scrap, from used plastic water bottles to kitchen waste to packaging materials used by ecommerce sites.

The furniture, lights and objects, most of which the owner has collected on his travels, mix well with new pieces made from scrap materials and a tried - and - tested paint method — layering a light shade over a dark shade and sanded through, give it a lovely patina.