Sentences with phrase «trowels into»

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

The paint — usually enamel, which he finds more pliable — is applied by dipping a small house brush or stick or trowel into the can and then, by rapid movements of the wrist, arm and body, quickly allowing it to fall in weaving rhythms over the surface.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

«I wonder what it means, though,» she says, her trowel plunging into the dirt, «and if we should worry.»

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.