Sentences with phrase «than a painting by»

When you haven't been able to spray paint in 5 months, you forget how much faster it is than painting by hand!

Both took beloved novels and used them as inspiration, rather than paint by numbers, to build their own haunting worlds.

No gift could make Ben happier than a painting by Kolanski.

I try to be aware of what readers want to read, but if I don't write first of all for myself, to explore situations and characters that matter to me, my work will be no better than painting by numbers.

He traveled to Rochester and met with Xerox engineers, an experience that gave him the idea that the solution to his gestural problem was to begin making paintings rather than painting them by hand.

3 AGNES MARTIN (TATE MODERN, LONDON; CURATED BY FRANCES MORRIS AND TIFFANY BELL WITH LENA FRITSCH) Nothing could be more exact than a painting by this modern mystic, who, I recently learned, heard voices in her head and suffered periods of psychosis.

Not exact matches

Sotheby's on Tuesday unveiled a painting by Amedeo Modigliani that's expected to fetch more than $ 150 million at next month's auction.»

A January study of more than 2,000 adults in the United States by Clarizen and Harris Poll discovered some employees would much rather watch paint dry (17 percent), commute four hours (12 percent) or endure a root canal (8 percent) than attend a boring meeting.

The Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO appears with his tummy painted (like a yo - yo)-- along with more than 100 pregnant women who had their bumps transformed for «The Belly Art Project,» a coffee table book put together for charity by billionaire Spanx founder, Sara Blakely.

In 2008, Harry and Barb Haagen, who run a house - painting company with six employees, began to worry when sales dipped by more than 10 % in the economic downturn.

Lawson insisted that «you can no more make a State industry imitate private enterprise by telling it to follow textbook rules or to stimulate competitive prices, than you can make a mule into a zebra by painting stripes on its back.

By Elly Park NEW YORK (Reuters)- American artist Barnaby Furnas has turned to a custom - made robot to help him with paintings that can sell for more than $ 100,000 at New York...

There are more than a dozen works on view in Trump's apartment, including a series of prints by conceptual artist John Baldessari, a massive work by art - market juggernaut Christopher Wool, a small piece by the up - and - coming artist Will Boone, prints by photographer Mariah Robertson, and a small, colorful abstract painting by the young art - world star Alex Da Corte.

By the way, the Bible is no more evidence for the existence of God than Juius Leblanc Stewart's painting «Nude in the Forest» is evidence that women actually stand around nude in the forest.

She paints a vivid of picture of women both more privileged and less happy than at any time in history and of men absolved of all responsibility by the sexual revolution but also stunted, trapped in a perpetual adolescence.

The one who enters the best caption (you can enter more than one), chosen by myself and a couple of my comically - inclined friends, will win my original watercolor painting (2.5 ″ x3.5 ″), called Northern Lights Town:

Although the theologian can not be programmed for success, any more than an artist can paint by number, there are several guidelines concerning the theologian's setting and posture that can be offered by way of conclusion.

Tolstoy, for instance, is an epic writer, whose books overflow with physical details and frequently threaten to overflow their own narrative structures and become as vast and as inconclusive as life itself, while Dostoevsky is a dramatic writer, whose books are full of fraught and urgent voices, at times almost disembodied, trapped in situations of immediate and pressing crisis, and surrounded by a physical world usually having no more substance than a collection of painted canvasses or pasteboard silhouettes at the back of the stage.

Even so, we are far more likely to paint for our readers a broad range of figurative meaning by keeping close to the literal field wherein that meaning takes root and flourishes, than by dispensing with the literal, and losing it and much of the figurative to boot.

Not your normal hotel art — Windsor Court boasts a museum - quality collection of paintings, sculptures, tapestries and furnishings valued at more than $ 8 million by more than 60 artists.

Interviews with more than a dozen former and current Mavericks employees in different departments, conducted during a months - long SPORTS ILLUSTRATED investigation, paint a picture of a corporate culture rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior: alleged public fondling by the team president; outright domestic assault by a high - profile member of the Mavs.com staff; unsupportive or even intimidating responses from superiors who heard complaints of inappropriate behavior from their employees; even an employee who openly watched pornography at his desk.

First synthesized more than a century ago, DMSO is a natural by - product of wood - pulp manufacture and has been used for decades as an industrial solvent, paint thinner and additive in a number of chemical products.

My appreciation of paintings, drawings, etc., is super-casual, so what follows here could be pretty well ripped apart by experts of the field if I presented it as anything more than «here's what the sports guy thinks about the paintin's!»

But sadly as he plays for THEM I think he is much better than either.I see in him an uplift in quality way beyond Theo who is not diversifying as a player but is still a decent international.Lennon is a painting by numbers winger.

Ladders are probably more risky than painting when your balance is jeopardized by your large belly and loose joints.

If you are using tempera paint, just give the kids a bit extra or apply a second coat if needed; it tends to be absorbed by the egg carton a bit more than acrylic paint... MORE does.

If that is really the justification — the enoromous costs incurred by families and a society when a child is poisoned — than our efforts are better spent addressing the much more significant cause of childhood lead poisoning — older housing and buildings coated with lead paint.

But should you be dealing with a zoo, rather than a bedroom (aka a room with multiple children), consider stealing the elementary school idea and using it in your own house by installing wainscot and painting it with gloss or even high - gloss paint.

I like it when the paint is thick enough for each dot to turn into a visible fingerprint with an interesting structure and when I can easily see how the flowers made by my younger child are smaller than the ones made by my oldest because of the different sizes of fingers.

Local council election results in the wards making up Hallam constituency, while by no means good for the Liberal Democrats, paint a more equivocal picture than the polls, as a comparison of the 2010 local election results with those in the most recent local elections in 2014 shows.

Hoffmann's testimony was only the latest acknowledgment that Oyster Bay sought to hide loans to Singh backed by the town's creditworthiness and that the town officials sought to a paint a rosier - than - reality picture of its finances.

Olatoye, seated near the de Blasio administration's top lawyer, Zachary Carter, did not apologize, and council member after council member assailed her over several matters, including testimony in December before lawmakers in which she wrongly testified that more than 4,000 lead - paint abatements had been completed by workers with the proper certifications.

He also painted more than Lancashire — from Piccadilly Circus to the Lake District, he found similar crowds of people with the same dogged gait, walking determinedly into the wind, as if pulled by a magnet attracted to their caps.

Underlying the noise is a vision of a domestic banking and finance sector at least partly in line with the picture painted by the venerable Vince Cable: light years from the casino economy, there to perform a utility function, more Captain Mainwaring than Bob Diamond.

By Sean Ryan The only choice for more than 20,000 residential contractors in Wisconsin is to set aside their concerns over new lead paint requirements and prepare to comply.

Mr Brown has painted the Tories as the party who would stand by and «do nothing» rather than borrow to help stimulate a recovery.

«Just as important, anything that paints the GOP as being motivated in our criticism of President - elect Obama by anything other than a difference in philosophy does a disservice to our party.»

Given that this was the decade that saw two whole parliamentary sessions without a single vote being cast against their whip by a member of the governing party, this observation was at least more accurate then than modern - day attempts to paint politicians as a bunch of spineless sheep.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente said today that more than 400 inner city houses have been surveyed by the Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention program for chipped and peeling paint since May of this year as part of its March to the Middle program.

Countdown Begins on Remodeling, Repairing and Paint Rules «New EPA Regs Aimed at Decreasing Lead Poisoning» In less than a month, all contractors who perform renovations, painting and remodeling that might disturb lead - based paint in houses, child care facilities and schools built before 1978 will be required to meet stricter guidelines under the new regulations established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Oneida County Health Department officials said today.

The only contentious moment of the evening was when one of the panelists, a successful bar and restaurant owner named Michael Sinensky, argued against the legislation by painting himself, rather than his employees — some of whom make minimum wage — as a victim of the tough economy.

The measure would come after more than 320,000 people have been left without heat or hot water this winter and following months of revelations that the housing authority had failed to conduct inspections for lead paint as required by federal rules and city law for four years.

When fed brain scans produced by students looking at fresh paintings by the same artists, the program correctly identified the painter better than chance alone: it was correct 83 per cent of the time among the six students who were art majors and 62 per cent of the time among the others (NeuroReport, DOI: 10.1097 / WNR.0 b013e3283331322).

Just as a careful watcher can gauge the emotional state of a person by noticing a blush or other visual cues, scientists are becoming adept at discerning the state of a cell with the help of molecular «paints» that highlight more than a thousand cellular features together.

That goal is still lower than the conversion ratio achieved by modern cells made from silicon, but organic photovoltaics would be cheaper and could be used in fabrics, plastics and even inks and paints.

«Prior knowledge may influence how adults view van Goghs: Adults more influenced by prior knowledge, beliefs than children when first viewing paintings.»

Adults rely more on top - down processing than children when observing paintings by van Gogh, according to a study published June 21, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Francesco Walker from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and colleagues.

A new study led by the University of Southampton and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology shows that paintings in three caves in Spain were created more than 64,000 years ago - 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe.

This painting is inspired by one of my favorite fashion illustrators Katie Rodgers, her art is truly breathtaking and if you are a fan of fashion sketches than check out her blog for more inspiration!

Hand woven from 100 % silk by Indian artists Somu and Soma this ecru shawl comes with royal blue and red animal print motifs made by hand painting the designs and than transferring them to the fabric via digital printing.