Sentences with phrase «stripping layers of paint»

I know what it's like to go through so much work stripping layers of paint.....

I know what it's like to go through so much work stripping layers of paint.....

Not exact matches

It had so many layers of paint that I had to strip it and it took about 5 coats to stop it from bleeding AND I used a primer!!!

I wanted a smooth finish, so I started fresh by stripping all the old layers of paint using Citri - strip.

I don't normally strip old paint before I paint a piece, but in this case it was necessary, due to the 6 layers of paint that were already in bad shape.

All guest room door jams were stripped of layers of paint and restored to the original heart pine wood.

Unlike Frank Stella, a pioneer of object - oriented striped art, Wang Guangle arranges paint in layers, one on top of another.

The three vertical panels, in addition to referencing the traditional triptych format, appear to be horizontally subdivided into three regions: a relatively quiet area along the top, bordered by a long squeeze of red paint that crosses the surface from left to right; a densely layered strip across the center, where the majority of the collaged elements are concentrated; and a band of brightly colored stripes that fills the bottom.

A 2009 MacArthur Foundation «genius» award recipient, Bradford (b. 1961), based in Los Angeles, is best - known for large - scale abstract paintings made from a variety of collaged materials, including billboard paper, permanent - wave end papers, newsprint, carbon paper, and other papers layered together (or stripped apart) and then manipulated with nylon string, caulking, and sanding.

The revelation can be architectural - as in his 1973 work at the Galleria Toselli in Milan, where he had layers of paint stripped from the walls to expose the original plaster surface - or functional, as in his piece for the Claire Copley Gallery in Los Angeles, in which he made public the business operation of the gallery by removing the wall dividing the exhibition area from the office and storage space.

He says that the Hirshhorn piece will likely be another «pull painting,» a technique developed by the artist that involves building up layers of colored paper and then sanding, cutting, peeling, and stripping away material to reveal a wall drawing.

Painting, cutting, layering, and folding strips of Mylar, he manipulates the translucency of this plastic film to create an ephemeral experience for the viewer that changes with light and movement.

In this bilaterally divided canvas, Innes demonstrates a signature technique of building layers of oil paint, before stripping away sections using a turpentine wash.

In a way, as critic Charles Darwent has written, Ofili «seems to be reliving 20th - century modernism backwards,» cycling through clear formal periods wherein his compositions have become more stripped - down, foregoing the dense layering and collaged elements of earlier works, and often focusing on a limited color palette — including the red, green, and black of Marcus Garvey's pan-African flag in the series of paintings he began in 2000 and showed in concert in an immersive environment at the 2003 Venice Biennale's British Pavilion.

Subsequent layers of paint — added over periods of several weeks — decrease in size, leading to the striped effect that characterizes the works as well as thick agglomerations of paint that evoke the material's physicality.

Interspersed with these canvases are paintings made of strips of paper layered into appealing patterns that break up the intensity of Chambers» installation.

On unstretched linen, he layers oil and acrylic paint in thick and uniform quantity, but then strips and sands the surface of the painting to lay bare, in erratic patches, the linen's surface and fibers.

In her large square canvases, often named after instruments, she uses collage to layer horizontal strips of paper that have been tinted along their edges, then adds additional squares of paint like regular punctuations.

Meanwhile, at Marc Foxx Gallery through June 20, Sam Windett layers paint over strips of newspaper to build a sense of actual time into each picture.

Known for his tactile, map - like collage paintings, Bradford's trademark monumental, mixed - media abstractions layer string and advertising posters stripped from the streets of his notoriously gritty neighborhood, where he maintains his studio.

The five artists in the first session, which began January 3 and lasts until February 12, are Carrie Beckmann, a watercolorist who paints directly from nature and can normally be found working in the Conservatory; Danielle Durchslag, who is using cut and layered paper to represent Wave Hill's natural surroundings; Sabrina Gschwandtner, who has covered her studio floor with 16mm - film strips (some found stock and some she's shot at Wave Hill) that will be sewn together to create illuminated quilts; Nick Lamia, who is experimenting with plein - air drawings as a source for multi-dimensional abstractions; and Adam Parker Smith, who has been busily painting colorful, wall - sized assemblages of plants and flowers based on observations at Wave Hill.

In the early to mid»80s she began sewing strips of canvas together, approximating circular biomorphic shapes, loading up her paintings with color and dense layers of punched paper dots, collage elements, and decorative bits — but she never identified with the Pattern and Decoration movement.

In Golden Retriever, a panel is layered with strips of embossed material, and covered in gold paint.

In her large square canvases, often named after instruments, she she uses collage to layer horizontal strips of paper that have been tinted along their edges, then adds additional squares of paint like regular punctuations.

The work simultaneously builds up and strips back the layers of paint, creating the work, which exists between figuration and abstraction.

The Mpane exhibition features an elegantly carved, life - sized sculpture; boards transformed into portraits of Congolese youth by meticulously subtracting surface layers; and a large - scale work composed of wood strips, held together by a mesh backing, painted and then broken into pieces resembling tile squares.

A 2009 MacArthur Foundation «genius» award recipient, Bradford (b. 1961) is best - known for large - scale abstract paintings made from a variety of collaged materials, including billboard paper, permanent - wave end papers, newsprint, carbon paper, and other papers layered together (or stripped apart) and then manipulated with nylon string, caulking, and sanding.

The idea of stripping back the layers of paint or returning to pre-Renaissance painting interests me, and I begin to think in terms of fractions of effort, small victories, and good or bad luck.

Layers of paint are deliberately applied, only to be stripped off with salt and alcohol.

There is no reason that it can't go on for hundreds of more years; in Toronto's 401 Richmond complex, (see Margie Zeidler: Building Green Incubators) she restored hundreds, which «involved the removal of the old glass, heat stripping to remove the putty and several layers of paint, and then replacement of broken and rotted parts (where possible the old glass was retained).

Then we stripped two layers of wallpaper from the panels and prepped the room for paint.

«That hue was taken from a scrap of old hand - painted wallpaper we found under about seven other layers we stripped off,» says innkeeper Joanne Oliver.

(By the way, I'm stripping all eighty layers of paint off that apple green back door and staining it walnut in the near future!)

It was fun knowing in those first few years I could simply paint or furnish a room, rather than first having to strip 10 layers of paper or grime or replace carpet.

It's about working with furniture, and it's jam - packed full of information about stripping, prepping, priming, painting, staining, spraying, antiquing, whitewashing, drybrushing, glazing, layering and sealing.

Several layers of paint and poly - took a couple of layers of the strip but came off easily with a plastic scraper (make sure it's plastic not metal so it won't gauge the wood).

Step 2) To make the blue with white stars portion, tape off a section of the hat by laying down a strip of masking tape to create a clean line, and then a second layer of news paper attached to masking tape, making sure to cover the portion of the hat that that will not be painted blue.

In her Insta - caption underneath that pic, Patsy said, «It took several weekends of stripping and sanding off many layers of paint to finally get down to the natural wood.

I'd love to make a «planter wall» on our deck but first, we're stripping it of 4 layers of paint that are already on it and resealing it with a clear sealant so you can actually see the wood.

Because of its age, I assumed that at least some of the layers were lead paint, so tried to strip as much of the paint away before wet sanding to minimize getting paint dust in the air.

my upper cupboards are a medium wood tone shaker style which i love (many layers of white paint were stripped off 4 years ago) and the lower ones were not in great shape so they were painted.