Influenced by the events of the Arab Spring, the artist, who was born in 1970 in Addis - Ababa and works in New York, has again filled huge canvases
with skeins upon skeins of architectural plans, city maps, darting lines and free - flowing, undulating attacks of ink that are more powerful than ever, abstractly suggesting wild rivers, treacherous mountains and bombed - out landscapes.
In Portraits, her first show in Chicago, the New York based artist presents three medium - sized paintings, each one featuring a head - like oval form, all of them technically dazzling
with skeins of parallel dribbles that acutely change direction, forming a veritable undercarriage for hazy and more definite shapes.
Knopf is selling skeins of the yarn for $ 20 each,
with each skein offering enough yardage to make a pair of adult size socks.
Not exact matches
It's the Tall Dark and Handsome hat by TinCanKnits, knit
with half a
skein of SeaColors Yarn.
I remember abandoning it only because I had forgotten to bring another
skein of yarn
with me on the trip I started it on (running out of yarn - such a rookie mistake!).
Thankfully, the two
skeins I bought to make this shawl left me
with plenty of yarn, I think enough to make another but definitely enough for some fun hat play.
With a single
skein on a single day, tucked / snuck in between work and rehearsals and classes and making dinner.
The yarn is a gorgeous Sweet Basil Fiber Works sockweight
skein combined
with a goldenrod
skein from deep in my stash that came from Siri.
When Steve gifted me two
skeins of String Theory DK for Solstice (from his and my favorite sorta - kinda - local yarn shop, KnitWit), it came
with the polite insistence that I make something for myself.
So finally this week, I made a decision and went
with the Boyfriend Hat (available free here),
with two
skeins of Manos from the stash.
With a Tangled Skein offers three options: rolled fabric with ribbon, a knitted drawstring with inner batting, and a knitted r
With a Tangled
Skein offers three options: rolled fabric
with ribbon, a knitted drawstring with inner batting, and a knitted r
with ribbon, a knitted drawstring
with inner batting, and a knitted r
with inner batting, and a knitted roll.
Eclectic cream and blue kitchen is equipped
with a Wolf dual range placed against white beveled brick backsplash tiles and between cream raised panel cabinets in Sherwin Williams Wool
Skein finished
with satin nickel cup pulls and a white quartz countertop.
You could probably get away
with using 4 or 5
skeins too, depending on the weight.
Though the passing of time had made the yarn for the sleeves go walkabout, a quick trip to the Dale Garn factory outlet
with my mum got me sorted out (and naturally, I found the missing
skeins of yarn last week...).
Geneva Robertson - Dworet and Alastair Siddons script is a
skein of mid-2000s origin movie clichés (think «Batman Begins» but without the heart, scope, subtext, or thrills) tied together by a director (Roar Uthaug)
with no detectable personal imprint.
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with buckle (various sizes) Sense - ible harnesses (various sizes, but especially small, medium, and EXTRA large) Stuffed animals (8 ″ or less) Towels (bath sized or larger) Laundry detergent Liquid dish detergent Litter pans (small size) Large bird cage suitable for macaws Cat litter (non-clumping) Yesterday's News, Carefresh, Feline Pine or other pelleted litter Dog and cat nail clippers Silverware — for serving canned food Q - tips Rubbing Alcohol Blankets Bleach Havahart traps
Skeins of yarn to make cat blankets Blankets for cats: made of yarn or fleece material, 2 ft. x 2 ft., no fringe CDs of classical music, light jazz or nature sounds Plastic storage bins Liquid cooking extracts (coconut, vanilla, lavender) Four - cup paper holders / trays (from fast food restaurants) to make puzzle toys for dogs Heavy duty utility carts (Click here to see on our Amazon Wish List) Pet Toys (must be non-toxic & easy to disinfect)
Fast moving Swift Terns
with their dipping flight and
skeins of Cape Cormorants living up to their Dutch name of «Trek Duikers», stream off Ark Rock for the offshore fishing grounds.
Every move in the studio
with his delicate paint
skeins is made fraught
with the possibility of failure.
Extending the post-painterly abstract techniques of pouring and staining, Saccoccio creates
skeins of crisscrossing drip lines, often adding pure dry pigment to the wet paint, imbuing them
with colors not normally seen in daily life.
By the time Pollock painted the stunning Blue Poles, hanging opposite, in 1952, any form of representation had been dispensed
with and the body in the painting was the artist's own as he physically stood on the painting, dripping on spiralling
skeins of paint that recorded the physical reach of his body and arm.
The sweeping gestures and fearless colors of Liliane Tomasko's stunning paintings are the lure, but once I engaged
with the work I found myself trying to unravel some of the
skein of three - dimensional layers in the big, bold, recent Who you were is not what you will be.
In this lustrous combination, geometric
skeins of marble appear to float on the wall, their weighty volume contrasting mightily
with a surrounding pink haze.
Look closely at Jananne Al - Ani's untitled 1996 photograph of a woman transformed by the process of being unveiled, or at Ghada Amer's Eight Women in Black and White (2004),
with its dense
skein of stitches masking pornographic images of women, or at Mona Hatoum's Prayer Mat (1995), made of sharply pointed pins that render the mat threatening.
Raditsa's method of layering colors and applying washes and
skeins of flesh tones, beiges, and whites presents the eye
with a constantly fluctuating surface»
Stephen Maine's paintings utilize a Luddite methodology that mimics and critiques the patterns of higher - tech dot printing processes while Amalia Piccinini coats her canvases in
skeins of dark stains
with accretions of paint, forming a self - consciously imperfect and mottled texture.
In And That Was That (2016), the hulking jute and silk
skein, treated gesturally
with additions of oil, intrusions of wool and slatherings of latex, hangs majestically from oversized metal hooks, bowed but unbeaten.
In the late 1970s, even as Johns curtailed his involvement
with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, he might have taken special note of the set Robert Rauschenberg designed for Cunningham's dance Travelogue 1977, a sculptural installation that Rauschenberg titled Tantric Geography (fig. 10).33 The set design was related to a series of works Rauschenberg created in 1975 and 1976 entitled Jammers, which also made use of fabric panels reminiscent of flags or sails, and whose brightly coloured
skeins of cotton, muslin and silk drew inspiration from the artist's 1975 visit to Ahmedabad in India to research textiles and printmaking.
In earlier works, a concern
with the perceptual space of painting juxtaposed abstracted human faces
with overlapping
skeins of color.
However, for me the paintings that most captivated my imagination in those days were the long horizontal Mural by Joan Miró that hung in the lobby for so many years, and Jackson Pollock's Number One (1948)
with its sense that anything was possible, through pure feeling, abstract landscape, handprints, and tossed silver
skeins of house paint.
Sometimes it leaps ahead and challenges us to keep up, as
with Malevich's black square of 1915, Jackson Pollock's dripped
skeins from the late 1940s, or Frank Stella's shaped canvases and metallic stripes of the early»60s.
The fact that Long chose to render these
skeins of paint by hand implies an obsessive preoccupation
with their form and the larger meaning it suggests.
In his newest series, Harpoons for hunting rainbows, he crafts standing totems by wrapping variously colored
skeins of yarn around tree branches and adorns them
with braided fabric swatches and paint, which is either in the form of dried globules of congealed pigment or freshly applied directly to the branch.
The final scene of the play opens
with two girls winding a
skein of red wool.
On display were bicycle wheels that had been converted into spinning wheels and hanks of hand - dyed
skeins of cotton yarn intermingled
with sweaters made of the same yarn.
It wasn't cheap to buy two
skeins of that locally produced yarn, but at least I'm making a statement
with my consumer dollars to a nearby farmer, endorsing his or her decision to make a living raising sheep.
According to the Toronto Star, they even held an impromptu flash mob where they went to a square and danced
with their favorite
skeins of yarn to «I had the Time of My Life»
with banners proclaiming «Taking Sock Knitting Almost Too Far.»
The walls went from a dusty pear color, to Wool
Skein by Sherwin - Williams, and the credenza - turned - TV stand is painted
with Annie Sloan's French Linen chalk paint.
Using a Pound of Love, I made an entire blanket
with the one
skein, edging it
with a contrasting color.
And since that's the biggest thing in the room, we decided to build the entire new color palette around it, so we started the makeover yesterday
with some of Sherwin - Williams» Wool
Skein - colored paint on the walls: