Sentences with phrase «troweling on»

Viewers can see that Wilson's process involves masking off areas and troweling on unnumbered layers of color within them.

An anti-populist idea indeed, no matter how much faux populism Rep. Boehner attempts to trowel on top of the it.

The Christmas tendency to trowel on the schmaltz can make it an endurance test by the time New Year approaches.

In «Yellow Wall», for example, an image Carnegie has used several times, of a path vanishing into a leafy tunnel, is dissolved almost to abstraction in a mass of chartreuse paint, trowelled on in great gobs, squeegeed and gouged.

However when praise is troweled on thick and accompanies a proposal, it becomes an obsequious insult.

With concrete, you can paint it, line it with tiles or, most commonly, trowel on a specialized plaster.

Once again, it's troweled on super thin.

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.

Trowel on (lightly for low relief; build up another layer for a higher relief) but make sure your material goes into all the design areas.

then troweled on a layer of Weathered Bronze Lusterstone, then took a fat roller that had circles all over it (textural) and rolled that over the whole thing, adding in more Weathered Bronze and a little Sage

ShimmerStone was troweled on the wall for a lush lustre and the armoire and chinoiserie artwork on the panels were handpainted with various colors from the Metallic Paint Collection.

Not exact matches

That we hold a trowel this way or spread mortar on tile differently than on brick is justified from attempts to transcend or improve upon limitations of our predecessors.

Such passing on may be something as basic as one bricklayer teaching another bricklayer how to hold a trowel in order to spread mortar, or one person taking another through Plato's Meno to understand whether virtue can be taught.

Spread a layer of mustard over the fish — not too thin a layer but don't lay it on with a trowel either.

He never calls a spade a trowel and dat's why he's my pal on this site, together with the rest of the very few truthful guys on here.

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.

The device is similar to rapid prototype machines, which have been used for about 15 years to print out three - dimensional plastic models, but the trowels «allowed a new degree of control on the exterior surfaces,» says Khoshnevis.

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

They're all present and laying it on with a trowel, including Rufus Sewell (star of «Dark City») as the architect Urshu — who has the snitty defiance of a young Tony Curtis — and Geoffrey Rush as Set and Horus» grandfather, the sun god Ra, who lives on an orbital platform in space, and spends eternity using his sun - bolt lance to zap a giant black leviathan - worm that wants to eat its way through the planet.

Director Daniel Sackheim, who cut his helming teeth on numerous episodes of The X-Files, somehow manages to generate an air of suspense even if he sometimes too easily falls in the trap of dropping shady «hints» with all the subtlety and grace of a trowel.

Throughout these demonstrations we are able to observe Scott mix with a sizable trowel, the paint he will need for each study, figuring out on the palette first the approximate colors of the light, stressing value, and how they change and relate to one another, so that he can paint faster once he starts only needing to quickly adjust his mixtures with additional touches of more color or white, using a brush, as each painting progresses.

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.

The paint can be troweled, squeezed from the tube, diluted into a wash, or pressed on with a sheet of paper and pulled off.

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.

On a thin board Elise trowels ten to fifteen thin layers of Venetian plaster to create a thick, but delicate, matte foundation.

Her first work with Oldenburg came in 1976, when she helped him install his 41 - foot «Trowel I» on the grounds of the Kröller - Müller Museum in Otterlo.

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.

His surfaces — gnarled and knotted, as if stirred from molten pigment — feel intimately tormented, but his scenes read like unearthly dreams... Radell focuses more directly on historical subject matter... Such scenes he conjures with heavily reworked surfaces, built up of layers of troweled and scraped paint, sometimes embedded with shreds of burlap.

Painting with trowels, palette knives, and squeegees on sheets of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), Baker builds her bright glossy surfaces by outlining each mark and shape with torn tape and filling in the interior.

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.

Over the next seven years, working with the canvas laid on the floor and dripping or pouring paint, or using sticks, trowels or paint thickened with sand or crushed glass, Pollock produced some of the greatest Abstract Expressionism works ever made.

In addition, Fischli and Weiss gave each work a poetic, often ironic title based on its appearance: a vertical assemblage involving a bottle, a carrot, and a spatula, all held together by a piece of cord, is called The Roped Mountaineers; a bottle and metal vice form the base of an almost impossibly cantilevered construction, with a tea kettle, a trowel, and a feather duster reaching end - to - end out into space, in As Far As It Goes.

This torso, drawn with thickly troweled splattering black strokes, is centered on an almost equally dark green ground.

Chromatically bold and assured, it is a cascade of troweled - on paint strokes that has the flow but — not the syntax of narrative.

The works are visually arresting, look great on a wall, but in the end are really a one - trick pony, the troweling of different colors of paint across a surface.

By applying these grounds with a trowel, almost like a plaster wall, they become very alive with just a few marks on them.

Still, she does lay it on with a trowel.

I won't give away all the goods on how the show proceeds but here's the gist of it: Thousand Of Seed - Containing Bomblets Dropped to Reforest Mangrove Forest Since it's too labor intensive and too slow to reforest large areas of land by hand, foot, shovel and trowel, why not try to use aircraft to drop thousands of small bomblets containing a tree seed (in the experiment in the show, mangrove seeds) and some soil over deforested areas?

• Highly skilled in maintaining a clean job site by handling site preparation activities in sync with provided directions • Demonstrated expertise in setting up forms in which concrete is poured such as walkways, walls and pillars • Exceptionally well - versed in estimating concrete quantities and appropriate mixes of sand and cement • Proven record of efficiently building and erecting various concrete foundations and structures • Proficient in performing activities related to cutting and placing reinforcing wire mesh and handling rough leveling of concrete mixtures • Completely adept at handling fine finishing work by performing floating, troweling and edging duties • Documented success in putting in place standards of safety to minimize work - related accidents and occupational hazards • Deeply familiar with standard methods, materials, tools and equipment used in concrete construction and maintenance • Focused on monitoring the effects of heat, wind and cold on the curing of concrete through the entire process • Hands - on experience of applying sealants and hardening components to cure concrete surfaces and handling waterproofing duties • Qualified to operate equipment such as power vibrators to handle compact concreting duties • Track record of efficiently and accurately directing the casting of concrete to ensure conformance to leveling standards

• Demonstrated expertise in reading and interpreting blueprints and ensuring that all construction work procedures are properly aligned to them • Hands - on experience in performing construction work according to specified building codes and state - specified procedures • Documented success in erecting structures and handling demolition work by following safety procedures • Qualified to mix concrete and cement in prescribed consistencies and pouring them in a safe and accurate manner • Skilled in leveling concrete and earth using trowels and shovels and other construction tools • Highly skilled in operating jackhammers and drills to break up concrete and pavement and place, consolidate and protect case - in - place masonry structures • Proficient in cleaning and preparing construction sites by removing debris and hazardous materials and ensuring that constructional materials are properly loaded and unloaded from delivery trucks • Competent in controlling passing traffic by erecting traffic cones and signaling vehicles toward diverted routes • Proven ability to perform physically taxing work such as digging ditches and trenches using shovels and picks • Demonstrated ability to operate pneumatic hammers, vibrators and tampers to provide logistical assistance with construction projects • Proven record of carefully demolishing structures by using allowed explosives in a safe manner

Cleaned all construction areas to avoid hazards.Mixed and laid concrete to raise top of manhole to the street level.Mixed mortar, plaster and grout according to standard formulas.Performed heavy labor such as ditch digging, paving and hauling.Mentored junior team members, providing guidance on proper techniques and safety.Installed, repaired and rebuilt tile, brick and stone surfaces.Used grouting trowels to apply grout between joints of bricks and tiles.Continually cleaned work areas and equipment.Arranged and stored materials, machines, tools and equipment.Cut materials to specified sizes for installation using power saws and tile cutters.Transported materials, tools and machines to installation sites.Used a pick and shovel to dig, spread and level dirt and gravel.

It utilizes a troweled - on topping that tenaciously bonds to virtually any horizontal or vertical substrate, including concrete, wood, metal, plastic or asphalt, he notes.

Wet the surface of the wall, and spread the mixture on — not too thick — with a trowel.

You can use a small jap trowel, a flat blade, even a plastic gift card to lay the plaster on the stencil, then lift the stencil to reveal your creation.

I spent about $ 25 of our True Value gift card on tile adhesive, grout, a rubber sponge float and a small, plastic trowel.

I am on the hunt for an apron and trowel set!!

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.

Note the teeth on that trowel.

Draw guidelines on your tabletop with a permanent marker and then trowel mortar onto only one quadrant of the top with a 1 / 4 - in.

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.