Sentences with word «trowel»

Apply mortar to tile back, position the tile and press or tap with trowel handle to affix tile to base.

Moreover, we can track these dual art historical threads into the present, to Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, to Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, for instance — to the former's vaporous fields of elusive cloud - like color space, to the latter's jagged and obdurately physical expanses of troweled pigment.

Here's a photo of Keith troweling on the first coat:

I use seasonal hats, baskets and decor on it — right now it holds a straw hat with a pumpkin colored flower, a pumpkin basket and a garden trowel painted with a pumpkin.

Yet not a single automated manufacturing process used trowels,» he says.

Using hand trowels, laser levels and a suction tube to draw disturbed sediment to the surface for screening, the underwater archaeologists found six stone artefacts that had clearly been made by people.

2) Apply your (WHITE) thinset / morter with a 1/4» notched trowel on only the area that you're ready to put sheet of tile on.

His paintings employ a traditional technique used in the Chosun Dynasty (1392 — 1897) in which the pigments — in Ha's work, the ochres and dark umbers — are pushed through the weave of the burlap and eventually linen from the opposite side, and then trowelled with a palette knife on the frontal surface.

He applied the paint smoothly with brushes in some areas and heavily troweled in others, to create contrasting texture that enhance the work's multidi - mensional form.

The wallpaper is layers of hand - troweled plaster on paper, which creates a depth of color and texture that can not be achieved with paint.

He creates his paintings by troweling oil paint onto the face of the canvas and then pulls a stiff bristle brush across its surface in one single stroke.

Used grouting trowels to apply grout between joints of precast walls.

The Bronx's Friends of Crotona Park Inc Wins 2015 Golden Trowel Award from NYC's Partnerships for Parks.

But she is best known for collaborations with Oldenburg, which have placed giant trowels, shuttlecocks, bowling pins and typewriter erasers on parklands, civic squares and museum grounds in Europe, Asia and the United States.

I have made piano keys into sunburst mirrors and old crusty metal / wood trowels into sconces.

Flush to floor base molding Pencil edges on drawer fronts English dovetailed drawers Drawers have stained interiors, wood glides Wood trowel handles pulls on metal backplate Magnolia Home nameplate for authenticity Available in Bench finish Quartered Pine veneer, pine solids, wood products

While Dash literally worries her diminutive textile sculptures to pieces, the majority of these works (all Untitled, 2016)-- composed primarily of stacked or beveled arrangements of jute - stretched canvases, quantities of gessoed or hand - painted fabric, and lengths of twine embedded in or hanging from troweled - on adobe grounds — feature tactile surfaces manipulated by the sure hand of composure.

Ferguson's paintings are comprised of built - up troweled layers of plaster with uneven surfaces, repeated patterns and illusionistic depth that suggest something representational yet actually derived from geometric variations created on her computer.

Finished slabs with hand tools including trowels, magnesium float, bull float, fresno, edger and finishing broom

Her master bedroom features many inspired creative touches, including a focal wall troweled with our Metallic Plaster and a stenciled folding screen patinated with our Metal Effects Rust Finish.

Try old tools like trowels or hand shovels as hooks.

There were only two of us on the course and clearly my colleague was destined to spend his life in poverty under canvas in the desert, trowel at the ready, whereas I ended up in politics via the City.

She pulls out a clean trowel and attempts to collect some bottom sediment; in the rapid current, it takes a half dozen tries to fill the small vial she will take back to the DNA laboratory of her adviser, environmental engineer Amy Pruden.

With a soft whir, the contour crafter's head lays down inch - high extrusions of viscous concrete, one atop another, as a pie - shaped trowel smooths the surface.

Sliding, pushing, wiping, scraping, troweling thick masses of paint against and across the canvas.

At Galeria Luisa Strina, yet another Sao Paulo gallery, wooden trowels were stacked about the corner booth.

Instead of fixing canvases to an easel, Pollock would place them on the floor, pour and drip paint onto the canvas and craft the work using anti-painting objects such as trowels, sticks or knives.

«Still's paintings also echo Van Gogh's in their rich color palette and heavily troweled painterly surfaces.»

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Instead of basic white paint, the owner of this Victorian home had an artisan spray the walls with a watered - down blend of several creamy hues before troweling the plaster — yielding a rich effect with tinges of gray and putty and yellow.

When he met Van Bruggen, Oldenburg was working on one of the first big outdoor steel versions of his basic idea, in this case a giant gardening tool called Trowel 1.

Paint has been troweled onto the canvases in patterns that appear carefully designed, yet which surely shifted in the process of painting and repainting.

The plans for this grand courthouse began in 1899 and the cornerstone for the new building was laid by the Duke of York, who who would late become King George V, with a 14 - karat gold trowel made especially for the occasion.

Van Bruggen helped Oldenburg to rehab earlier works, such as his 1971 sculpture Trowel I. Together, they created such iconic public artworks as Minneapolis's Spoonbridge and Cherry — a giant sculpture of a spoon balancing a ripe cherry — and Cologne's Dropped Cone, a vanilla ice cream cone plopped upside - down onto the corner of a shopping mall building.

and a couple of vintage trowels, showing the visible...

The notched trowel gives the thinset some «tooth» for the tile to grab onto, but because glass tiles are see - through, you want to smooth out the notches with the smooth side so the notches are underneath and not visible.

Wesley Trowel «signs for those who uses their intellectuals to accept» Yo, dude, no wonder your religious myth only dominates in third world countries with high birthrates and poor education.

Being a full - time MP, my regulation issue archaeological trowel sees little action these days.

The mischievous snapshots of the Rolling Stones behind the scenes — Bailey went on tour with them — are fantastic intimate pictures, and a bit more human in their irreverence and use of hilarious props: masks, a dagger, lightbulb and trowel festoon the Stones in one image.

Materials • A partner • A trowel or short shovel • Gloves (gardening gloves or winter gloves will do) • One large tray (aluminum trays work well) • One small tray • Two magnifying glasses • Tweezers • Meter stick • Rope • Pencil and paper • Field guide or identification key (optional) Preparation • Locate a nearby public park or forest to conduct the activity.

To prove automated troweling could work, he invented a small - scale machine for making objects no more than 20 inches across.

Khoshnevis points out that the exterior trowel could be followed by a rolling die that prints a brick, shingle, or clapboard pattern in the wet concrete, while the interior could be painted using ink - jet technology in any color, or even in wallpaper patterns.

Khoshnevis, 54, a prolific inventor who emigrated from Iran in 1974 and holds patents in fields ranging from optics to robotics, decided there had to be a better way while troweling plaster cracks in his living room following the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake.

Standard equipment includes a hammer and chisel, compass, clinometer, binoculars, pointing trowel, sample bags, tape measures, and so on.

The creation is a candle holder that amplifies its light through a polished trowel head.

They've troweled away the current vehicle's blockiness.

Once you've decided on the tiles you want to install, mix your mortar (cement) and apply it to the wall with a special v - groove trowel.

The handle on his climbing trowel had broken, apparently causing his fatal fall.

They can also allow characters to perform special actions usually reserved for a certain character, as is the case with the mithril trowel that will allow other characters to dig like Sam.