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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.

Not exact matches

The papermaking process doesn't just produce pristine rolls of paper; it also generates wood scraps, chemicals and other by - products rich in potential energy.

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.

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

A piece of scrap wood, painted and stained — long ago and has been sitting in the craft abyss I mentioned earlier this week — embellished with lace and paper pretties.

Are you also afraid of what creepy crawly, spidery things might try to make a home in that pile of scrap wood?

We have a bunch of scrap wood in our garage, but I'm not sure it's the right sizes for that ladder.

We used a scrap piece of wood we had in our garage.

I had a ton of scrap pallet wood in the garage, so I made this little star Christmas pallet sign!!

We just took 3 pieces of scrap wood (1 × 6 or 1 × 8 probably) and cut them all to the same length (maybe 15 ″ wide or so), then used smaller scraps (1 × 2) as braces along the back and put screws in them to hold it all together.

That's because the Mayflower most likely ended up as scrap wood and may have ended up being used in the construction of an old Quaker Barn in Great Britain!

To watch as they made every little item count — baking ingredients, fabric, scraps of paper, wood etc. — certainly illustrates the excess we have in present day and our dissatisfaction (through Reba's eyes).

She peeked in the bedroom and found it a mess, with bits of mattress stuffing spread across the floor along with wood scraps.

I'm the kind of person who saves wood scraps and old fence boards to reuse in other projects.

Waste Solutions in Wood Using recycled and scrap wood, Japan's Next Gen Pet has produced a natural line of litter that clumps and is also flushable.

The Gili Eco Trust are taking action on the sheer volume of food waste mixed in with every other scrap material such as plastic, wood and metal taken to the dump every day.

The strength for this leap of faith grew in the quietest moments of the game, around the many small pits of scrap wood that Seto sets fire to, sitting near the flames to regain health, deal with a chicken masked creature for supplies, and save the game.

Contemporary art is comprised of a variety of materials, we know that, but in three or four days at the fairs — more than, say, in a month in Chelsea — you see it all: string, twine, thread, clay, silicone, wax, rubber, wood scraps, wood shims, metal, resins, glass, wire, pins, needles, buttons, stuffing, mattresses, carpet, glazed ceramic, fabric, plywood, rolled paper, glue tiles, boxes, chains, lace — shall I go on?

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.

In addition to this body of work, the artist has created three sculptures comprised of metal racks and scraps, wood, silver chain, and suspended water bottles.

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

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

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).

African American women, too, have a place, with blurry screen captures of athletes by Howardena Pindell at Garth Greenan and shacks in scrap wood and oil pastels by Beverly Buchanan at Andrew Edlin.

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.

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.

In the strongest work in this show, what look like cut - up scraps of painted canvas are really thick swaths of acrylic paint, peeled off a flat surface and draped over bare wood stretcher bars leaning against the walIn the strongest work in this show, what look like cut - up scraps of painted canvas are really thick swaths of acrylic paint, peeled off a flat surface and draped over bare wood stretcher bars leaning against the walin this show, what look like cut - up scraps of painted canvas are really thick swaths of acrylic paint, peeled off a flat surface and draped over bare wood stretcher bars leaning against the wall.

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.»

Cutting curves out of scrap wood in the Yale woodshop began as a way of confronting a fear I had about learning.

These small sculptures are installed outdoors on public streets and in nature, as well as in museums, where stones, wood, feathers, shells, and scraps of cloth are suspended in a delicate web, juxtaposed as visual metaphor.

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.

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.

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.

Aitken has installed a mass of wood scraps and other debris around them, playing in echoes with the video installation.

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).

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.

Glulam technology also uses scraps that are not big enough to use for other purposes, significantly reducing waste, and in this case, using up a serious amount of pine beetle damaged wood.

Using scrap pieces of wood, silken textile scraps, and diminutive, painted pieces of furniture and art that looks like it's dollhouse - ready, he intertwines these fanciful structures in ordinary plants that we usually wouldn't notice, punctuating them with chimney flues, woodstoves and windmills.

The stunning illustrations of the work in progress on pieces of scrap wood are by artist Miguel Fuster, who lived on the street for 15 years.

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 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 pscrap parts, then painted with solvent - free paint.

Canada has plenty of wood scrap lying around: hence it makes sense to test it up in the Great White Biomass.

Other than the legs, the walnut for the top, bead board and one piece of wood for the shelf, the remaining pieces were scraps we had in the garage.

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)

onto scrap pieces of painted wood and then arranging the gold cars in a wonderful Atlanta - themed traffic pattern.

I built the fireplace out of scrap wood and scrap ceramic tile, then put the gas stove in front of it with candles on it.

I had already purchased coat hooks a few months ago for $ 12 total, in anticipation of doing this some day, but I knew I probably had enough scrap wood in my shop to make this work without buying anything else.

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

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