Sentences with phrase «scraps of wood from»

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

Pellet cookers need to use «food grade» pellets, not the less expensive (and more available) heating pellets that are made from a variety of wood that is often recycled scraps.

Most, if not all, of these toys would have been homemade — carved animals, board games scratched into a scrap of wood, roughly carved toy houses, and «rag baby» dolls made from bits of left over fabric.

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.

Debris from shattered homes can be the most devastating aspect of a storm, sending a cloud of shrapnel - like pieces of scrap metal and wood flying at hundreds of miles an hour into house after house.

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

Erica installed open shelving to add storage without taking up space, and the floating vanity, made from a scrap piece of wood, makes the space feel open and airy.

I even whipped up a cute «home» sign out of scraps from our pallet wood arrow and some rope for hanging.

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

I had a scrap piece of wood left over from another project (12 ″ x24 ″).

To the right of the backdrop is a Christmas Silent Night Sign using scrap wood and a cut out from my Silhouette Cameo... are we noticing a trend here?

Previously, dogs had eaten a mixture of table scraps, leftovers, and foods they were able to scavenge from the woods and fields.

Short Circuit is made of classic Combine ingredients: thick brushstrokes, a lace curtain, a scrap of polka - dotted fabric, postcard images of a Renaissance painting and Abraham Lincoln, a word scramble, a program from an early John Cage concert, and a Judy Garland autograph, all affixed with paint to a chassis made of scrap wood and cupboard doors.

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.

Circles, squares, cones, and wedges are formed with found wood from ships, beach shacks, and barrels, sometimes with tar or rusted scraps of metaldotting the surfaces.

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 ramp, formed by a variety of materials that range from generic folding chairs to conventional industrial building materials and scrap wood from a previous installation, is not fixed, so that the substructure can compress into spaces, against walls, into corners, and wrap around architectural details.

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.

Though cast in bronze, it looks like a carved piece of scrap wood, left over from a safety barrier.

The collages, made from Thomas's own photographs, are hung salon - style, in clusters of riotous leopard and zebra prints, wood paneling and scraps of re-created 1970s - era interiors.

Known by the tag name «Twist» for his graffiti and street art, McGee has also developed a career within museums and galleries, exhibiting drawings, paintings, prints, and large - scale, mixed - media installations that take inspiration from urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles, cans of spray paint, signs, scrap wood or metal, surfboards, and other found materials.

As a child, Alexander Calder had his own workshop where he created gadgets and toys from scraps of metal and wood.

The damaged artworks were 12 crown - like sculptures made from a mixture of materials, including precious metals, marble, wood, nylon and scrap metal.

Peter Buggenhout, a Belgian artist showing at Gladstone Gallery, covered a junkyard's worth of scrap metal, wood and other found objects with vacuum cleaner dust to create what I described in the review as «massive stacks of debris [that] hang off the wall or sprawl across the floor in a state of dereliction and collapse, monumental castoffs from a world spinning out of control.»

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

In its general sense, «Arte Povera» (an Italian term meaning poor / impoverished art, allegedly derived from the «poor theatre» of the Polish film director Jerzy Grotowski) describes a type of avant - garde art made from «found objects» including worthless materials, like soil, bits of wood, rags, scraps of newspaper.

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.

«Six Panels: Al Taylor» comprises a selection of drawings and three - dimensional assemblages fashioned from humble, often whimsically chosen materials, including wire, bits of scrap wood, tin cans and broom handles.

When she was six years old, she found great amusement in playing with wood scraps from her father's lumberyard; this early experimentation led her to announce, at the age of nine, her desire to become a sculptor.

Part two shows that, contrary to some industry claims, the brunt of the wood in pellets is from hardwood trees, not scrap and waste.

A few scraps of brightly painted wood from the local abandoned WWII army camp, Camp Lockett, were saved until their place in the home revealed itself.

And now, from Tel Aviv - based Ubico Studio comes this tongue - in - cheek creation, made from salvaged wood scraps, glued together and skillfully shaped to give the appearance of wholesome stumpiness.

This bit of Rube Goldbergery is created by Daniel Bauen and is «Both cleanly powered and built from 2 recycled bicycles, scrap steel and wood, leaking 5 gallon water jug and a lacrosse stick, our pedal powered tennis ball launcher is a unique innovate or die entry.

As this clip from Geoff Lawton's Urban Permaculture DVD shows, rocket stoves work best on thin bits of wood, which makes them ideal for utilizing scrap wood waste and / or tree prunings and coppiced wood.

Birdhouse Complex Made From Scrap Wood And Trash Their «Spatzenfavela» («favela» for sparrows), recently featured at the plan12 Architecture Biennale in Cologne, is a colorful complex of birdhouses cobbled together from untreated local wood and other scrap parts, then painted with solvent - free paFrom Scrap Wood And Trash Their «Spatzenfavela» («favela» for sparrows), recently featured at the plan12 Architecture Biennale in Cologne, is a colorful complex of birdhouses cobbled together from untreated local wood and other scrap parts, then painted with solvent - free pScrap Wood And Trash Their «Spatzenfavela» («favela» for sparrows), recently featured at the plan12 Architecture Biennale in Cologne, is a colorful complex of birdhouses cobbled together from untreated local wood and other scrap parts, then painted with solvent - free pafrom untreated local wood and other scrap parts, then painted with solvent - free pscrap parts, then painted with solvent - free paint.

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.

Now I had a piece of 10 x 10 scrap wood hanging around from another project.

Using one 4 x 4 post, cut two 6 - inch pieces (we had Home Depot cut these for us from a smaller piece of 4x4 scrap wood post).

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)

Using scrap pieces of wood and leftover Benjamin Moore Hale Navy paint from the dressers, we created 4 square backdrops for these super fun gilded lego people, super heroes and toy cars.

The rest of it was made from scrap wood we had from other projects.

This Shamrock Pallet Art is made from a scrap piece of pallet wood and St Patrick's Day scrapbooking paper.

A few months prior my brother - in - law had given us a bunch of scrap wood from the lumber company he works for.

CDX plywood using a compass made from a strip of scrap wood.

One of those small projects was this DIY Bedside Book Shelf that I built from scrap wood I had in my... [Read more...]

Apparently we love using scrap wood, because we also built our boys bunk beds out of scraps from our DIY addition build, also with plans from Ana's site.

Also — that «N» that my husband made out of scrap wood from our basement?

The purpose of the wax paper is to keep the liquid nails from drying and attaching the «shelf top» to the «scrap» wood pieces.