Sentences with phrase «smell of turpentine»

I have been painting with oils since I was a child and now I'm considering to switch to acrylics due to the smell of turpentine... it gives me such headaches!

Oil cons: The smell of turpentine If your start painting with oils in a confined space the fumes from the thinners can overwhelm you, turpentine and white spirit can be really strong.

Many of the gallery's artists are influenced by Asian art which so often employs pine tree imagery, and then there is old fashioned fragrance of art, the smell of Turpentine.

Not exact matches

A researcher from the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia will take part in the recreation of Darwin's voyage and ask locals to smell 12 different things including onions, chocolate and turpentine at some 25 ports of call.

You can almost smell the struggle inside Lehmann Maupin this month — it's mixed liberally with turpentine, linseed oil, and the scent of fresh paint.

My father was a sign writer so I grew up surrounded by the smell of paint and turpentine.

Resins typically have strong and interesting odors (familiar to many in products like turpentine, a commercial resin derivative), and they cause the distinctive smell of a pine forest in the summer when they vaporize from leaves and bark.