Sentences with phrase «scraps of paper such»

Right now I use a collection of torn out pages from print articles, Post-It notes and scraps of paper such as used envelopes that pile up on my desk at work and home.

Not exact matches

Provide your child with a variety of art - making supplies such as scissors, paper, glue, scraps of fabric, paper, paints and so on (See a complete list of art and crafts supplies to keep around the house), and encourage him to experiment with them.

Paste these and other items, such as scraps of cloth, yarn, string, or cotton balls, to paper.

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.

The endless action climax includes a falling - skyscraper scene that casually plunders 9/11 for visual references (floating scraps of paper, falling office chairs) without paying the obligatory tax of pathos or political allegory such scenes usually demand.

While they were being driven to ballet lessons or to try out for yet another state - wide team, I was happily entertaining myself with scrap paper and a box of crayons, or else playing with my Barbies, or watching re-runs of Greenacres on T.V. My free time wasn't organized, which is why I have developed, over the years, such a fondness for the word «free.»

In advance, gather a large «junk box» of miscellaneous items — such as bottle caps, plastic toys, coins, buttons, twist ties, stickers, empty spools, yarn, or paper scraps — and also large pieces of construction paper.

Though he often works on canvas, he frequently incorporates nontraditional materials such as strips of wood, bricks, wire, electric cords, socks, buttons, paper scraps, and even caviar to create his trademark puns and paradoxes.

Here, PEET has laid out almost all of the core elements to his practice: a love of analog, shown by his use of nondigital elements such as Wite - Out, pen, typewriter, and scraps of paper; an abiding interest in coding and symbols, demonstrated by the various signs and distinctly PEET - ian vocabulary inside; a challenge to consumerism and the pervading class system, indicated by his adoption (and transformation) of elements of Marx and Engels's famous manifesto; and finally, a pure, simple, visceral love of materials and process.

Evans meticulously assembles prosaic materials, such as scraps of paper, scotch tape, pencil shavings and correction fluid into diagrams, maps, flowcharts and diary entries that obsessively catalogue the fragments of a life.

Instead, the new forms become markers wrested from provisional materials, such as paper scraps and driftwood, that point to the impossibility of replacing what is missing.

While the majority of Grossman's works concern the physicality of the body, many of her collages and assemblages are dense, abstract compositions, such as Tough Life Diary (1973), created from words and fragments cut from the artist's diaries, and Light is Faster than Sound (1987 — 88), which combines dyed paper with an image of Lyndon Johnson and found scraps and fliers.

Lawrence Carroll deploys an «aesthetic of scraps» by using ordinary objects and scraps in his works such as old, patched - up shoes, flowers coated in paint, bits of bread or canvas and paper glued or stapled to the surface of his paintings.

The abstract collages, paintings, and sculptures on view, made of neutral - colored, plain materials (brown and blue carpets painted in white, beige scraps of paper, clear tape and light brown masking tape, white foam core, discarded aluminum, plywood) echoed long - established tendencies in abstraction, such as Robert Rauschenberg's experiments with nontraditional materials and Richard Tuttle's casual approach to art making.

During the same period he started on his best - known works - mixed - media combinations of paintings or sculptures, to which he attached everyday items, such as clothes, kitchen appliances, household materials, scrap paper, and so on.

Hauser has managed to get students conserving by changing some everyday habits, such as using both sides of a sheet of paper, saving outdated fliers in a scrap drawer for reuse, placing food scraps in a compost bin behind the school, as well as collecting bottles and cans for recycling.

Who knew you could make such fetching napkin rings from a toilet paper roll, a scraps of burlap and bits and pieces of nature?