Sentences with phrase «use of twig»

The use of twig wreaths everywhere, and 2.

Nature is a recurring theme in Cui Fei's drawings, prints, photographs, and installations that evoke Chinese calligraphy through the use of twigs and thorns.

The Warehouse Gallery September 16 — November 6, 2010 Nature is a recurring theme in Cui Fei's drawings, prints, photographs, and installations that evoke Chinese calligraphy through the use of twigs and thorns.

Ilene Sunshine brings the outdoors in with her use of twigs and branches and cleverly reimagines the detritus of found plastic bags in a colorful large scale site specific installation which bisects the gallery space creating a wall «of air» and pays homage to and playfully subverts formal concerns of mid century modernism and color field painting.

Like Richard Shilling's use of twigs and leaves to remind us of the simple beauty of nature or the guns Sonia Rentsch forms with flower buds, nuts and sticks to raise the issue of environmental degradation and violence, Yulia Brodskaya utilizes paper — perhaps the most basic art material available — and a technique called «quilling» that involves twisting and folding strips of paper in such a way that she forces the viewer to not only appreciate her finished work, but also reconsider how we look at the raw materials she's using.

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A twig of hyssop may be meant here, and this would relate the death again to the Passover, for hyssop is used in some of the Passover ceremonies.

Use rocks as a medium for masterful chalk works of art and build mini cities from twigs, tree bark, and stones.

These Twig String Art Christmas Ornament Crafts for Kids don't even have to be used for Christmas but, with the triangle shape, they look reminiscent of Christmas trees.

Use pinecones and twigs you find in your yard, old egg cartons that you were going to toss, a scrap of fabric for the scarf, and other odds and ends you probably have in your craft supplies.

The local species of crow uses sticks and makes hooked tools from twigs or the leaves of the Pandanus plant to dig out grubs from logs.

The study shows that «crows» natural abilities may indeed be based on sophisticated cognitive skills,» says ecologist Gavin Hunt of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, who discovered twig use in New Caledonian crows.

The birds use their beaks as tools to crack open the hard and woody outer coverings of seeds, pry insects from twigs, and sip nectar from cactus flowers.

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Some groups of chimps use twigs to fish for termites, others don't.

, The toughest fish on Earth... and in space, Vultures use twigs to gather wool for nests, The biggest living thing with teeth, Globetrotters of the animal kingdom, Judge Dredd worm traps prey with riot foam, Flashmobbing locusts have redesigned brains, Smart camo lets glow - in - the - dark shark hide, Attack of the self - sacrificing child clones.

Such tools may range from sticks to barbed leaves or hooked twigs used to fish the crow's favorite food from the trunk of a tree — the juicy grubs of the longhorn beetle.

The first tools that we used, or our lineage used, would have been not rocks, which are more complicated, but twigs and leaves and those kinds of things, I would imagine.

After studying the habits of these reptiles at four sites in Louisiana for a year, the scientists confirmed that alligators and crocodiles do indeed use twigs to lure unsuspecting birds to their doom.

These South Pacific birds build tools out of twigs and leaves that they use to root out food, and they're the only non-humans that make hooked tools in the wild, write the authors of a study published Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters.

Usually, the pine needles and fresh, tender twigs of the tree are used to obtain this oil.

Myrtle twigs, together with palm branches and twigs of willows, are still used in the ritual of the Feast of Tabernacles.

The leaves, bark, and twigs of the plant have been used over the centuries to make medicine.

Blowers and gravity separators are used to remove dust, dirt clods, bits of twigs and stalk and other impurities from the peppercorns after they are brought in from the field.

I'd used these plastic speckled eggs for my Easter table last year too, and these driftwood chargers and twig placemats are my favorite because they add tons of texture to the table at any time of year.

I just drilled a hole in the middle of the chunky piece of wood I used as a base, and then stuck the twig down into it.

A few years back, I used to work out regularly with a couple of them, more often than not complaining about why my arms continue to resemble twigs....

I had my heart set on using a set of white dinnerware with a gray and bluish twig motif.

To style my Thanksgiving table, I used four of my unstarched placemats as cloth napkins placed in twig napkin rings.

True to its title, this film is about a nest, every twig that was used to build it, and what flying out of it might mean and cost, to parents and child alike.

Prepare separate containers of gravel, soil, sand, leaves, small twigs, used coffee grinds, egg shells, and newspapers for each group

You can use twigs or wood (as long as it isn't painted or varnished and hasn't been exposed to pesticides), and you can also use small dog chew toys — but avoid those made of soft plastics and metals.

Even in ancient Africa, the twigs and the sap of the desert azalea were used for their toxic properties during hunting.

She has a handful of Eames Eiffel Tower chairs that belong to the era, but believes the Latvian twig stools and handloomed East Indian fabrics used as curtains are more in keeping with Desert Hot Springs» sensual aesthetic.

I took my time to build up the trees in the middle distance, using dry brush strokes to suggest the twigs at the extremity of the branches, and the birch tree were fun to paint too.

Instead of working with rags and twigs like his Italian predecessors, Harrison uses custom 3D printing technology to create altered copies of African artifacts such as masks and statues.

When in use on stage, Cave's painstakingly detailed textile sculptures conceal the wearer's identity, trading the apparent markers of race and gender for a visual cacophony of heavy beading, embroidery, and organic materials such as twigs or human hair.

This sculpture, on display at Matthew Marks's booth, is a greatest - hits encapsulation of the artist's unique preoccupations: structured around the armature of a stool (modeled after the one he uses in his studio, and cast in faux - bois aluminum), it's fronted by a fleshily convincing pair of disembodied breasts (hand - modeled in beeswax) and shelters within a bird's nest (painstakingly built from twigs) holding three blue robin's eggs (resin).

The book chronicles the artist's ingenious use of materials, which began with a Soundsuit constructed entirely from twigs and has since ranged from secondhand rugs and other thrift - store finds to feathers, buttons, beading, and dyed synthetic hair.

From little buds and petals to twigs and leaves, Vicki uses anything she can find from every square inch of her surroundings.

While she has made colourful abstract works using the traditional medium of watercolour on paper, she has also applied her distinctive palette of muted greens, ochre tones and bright sherbets to a wide array of everyday, found objects such as hammers, bottles, knives, chairs, twigs, mobile phones and fragments of clothing.

Whilst Tompkins makes colourful abstract works using the traditional medium of watercolour on paper, she also applies her distinctive palette of muted greens, ochre tones and bright sherbets to a wide array of everyday, found objects such as hammers, bottles, knives, chairs, twigs, mobile phones and fragments of clothing.

It stresses the use of ordinary materials such as sand, stones, twigs, etc., and the temporary, non-collectable nature of the work.

He is even known to use twigs of various trees instead of brushes, applying paint and modifying the piece using bamboo and hemlock branches and sticks to bring his ideas to life.

He'd go on walks, pick up bits of nature off the ground, and use them to create ephemeral sculptural objects, such as a now - lost abstraction made from branches and twigs.

Talk about a good use of food leftovers: Mexican artist Diego Perez designed the Proyector lamp using dry grape - twigs he gathered with the help of friends and local juice stands, as A-Seis explains.

Created using bits of twigs, seeds and other natural detritus, these intricate mandalas remind us of nature's power.

Although sap flow was monitored in 16 trees, drought stress level was measured in only three of these trees (one per stress level), to minimize potential effects of the destructive sampling (trunk cores, root samples, twigs and needles) on the stand - level water - use measurement.

Called «underwater architects,» Caddisflies are a common aquatic species of insect that collect natural, substrate materials like sand, gravel, leaves and twigs to build protective shells around their bodies, using silk excreted from salivary glands near their mouths to hold it all together (as seen below, au naturel).

Synonym: Salix nigra + + + + Preferred habitat: wet soils, bank of rivers and streams, marshes + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: deciduous + + + + Soil conditions: clay, tolerates poor drainage + + + + Light conditions: sun + + + + Plant spacing: 25 to 30 feet + + + + Wildlife value: provides nesting habitat and cover; willows supply browsing food for deer and rabbits; several species of birds use tender willow buds and twigs for food; honeybees are attracted to willows in the spring for their nectar + + + + Note: this tree can be aggressive and can cause problems if it is used inappropriately.

Once I happened on the document camera examples, though, it twigged me to the use of a tablet as a scanner.