Sentences with phrase «took paint thinner»

My siblings also had a knack for finding these giant slugs, literally almost as big as their heads, no lie, whose slime was so thick and gooey, it took paint thinner to remove it from their sticky hands.

Not exact matches

So they took a coat of white paint to the place, with a layer just thin enough so that the texture of the brick peeks through.

Not fearless enough to nose the camera in the dramatic mire, like a soldier to the cause in a personal guerrilla war, Diego Luna «s film beckons a paint - by - numbers summary of the man's greatest achievements, the spark notes of a six - plus year period that glosses all with thin coats, rarely taking the opportunity to remain in the moment and settle in with the hard - won emotional beats of the characters.

A high, thin whisper of impending doom slowly took over at the base of my skull, painting lurid scenes of our bleached bones being strewn across the arid expanses of West Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona by coyotes.

Take, for example, using paint thinner to clear a protective seal of paint, or wire cutters to cut wire and open up a gate.

The walls of Regina Rex have been taken over by four large, brightly - colored paintings, with luscious layers of thick and thin paint and most with elements of pure black.

For the first step, Yuri Masnjy painted a black abstract form that took up most of the white canvas; Joanne Greenbaum then added multicolored pencil - drawn lines midway through the process; and Kate Shepherd painted black details with a thin paintbrush.

On the Greenberg side, Frank Stella — whose 1959 painting Marriage of Reason and Squalor, a stark black canvas broken by his characteristic thin white strips of unpainted canvas is included in «Action / Abstraction» — took Greenberg's formal purity to the extreme.

What the Washington artists were so taken with was Frankenthaler's technique, that of applying oil paint that had been thinned down to the consistency of watercolor to unprimed canvas.

A key moment in Frankenthaler's career took place when she began thinning her paints with turpentine so that they would be absorbed into the fabric of the canvas.

Robert Ryman, one of the most revered artists of his generation, takes painting to places where the air is thin and the view can be vertiginous.

My favorite piece was Chrystie 31, a more challenging oil on paper that returns to Johns and Motherwell, with a substantial corner of a blue rectangle balancing a sweeping light figure in thin paint, wash upon wash that takes the tone down to near the paper's white.

MR. CLOSE: I thought it was interesting advice for somebody who was now making paintings that took months and months just putting thinned down, watery black paint on canvases and slowly building this imagery in a sort of odd, somewhat mechanical way.

However, for Hofmann, the possibilities of painting always encompassed divergent approaches; the geometric and the curvilinear, the thickly impasted and the thinned surface were all concurrently viable throughout his career, although there were periods when one set of problems seemed to take precedence over another, such as in his 1941 - 1943 landscape studies.

A hodgepodge of modernist sources lurks in the background: in one piece, a bulls - eye shape is reminiscent of Kenneth Noland or Jasper Johns; in another, gauzy layers of thinned paint form a black veil — an unexpected take on stain painting.

The paintings can take months to complete, the artist beginning with thin coats of oil or tempera before the topmost layer is applied in a thick impasto.

In his 1986 book, «Working Space,» Stella speculated about what it would take to guarantee abstract painting a viable future, given that its ancestry is so thin and recent.

Mitchell recently abandoned that moniker, and her work has taken a material turn, incorporating painting, installation, found objects, and assemblage that nonetheless retain the participatory, voyeuristic quality of her performance work — most likely owing to her use of tactile, unsettlingly inviting materials such as large, thin, powdery sheets of rubber.

In the 1970's, the decade of his death, Lewis's work seems to take on new vigor, especially in paintings like the spare, Minimalist «No. 2» of 1973, an all - black abstraction randomly scored with thin, vertical lines of white, and «Blue and Boogie» of 1974, a knockout of a painting in which a dynamic whir of bright blue patches — like a Coney Island Cyclone ride — animates an all - black field.

From the outset of her career, Mason understood the advantages of her interstitial space: she could take refuge from Abstract Expressionism's subjectivity as well as take advantage of the transcendent possibilities of color offered by Color Field (achieved by pouring thin layers of paint onto canvas).

In the test described below, I took some 6 inch square samples of thin aluminum and painted them with flat and gloss paint.

Seriously, it took more time to open the paint, mix a batch of chalk paint (thinned a bit... the instructions show just how much), and walk out to the garage than it did to paint my nightstand.

To make it look more substantial, we also took a piece of thin plywood and painted it to match.