Sentences with phrase «with trowel»

Find the offending ants» nest, expose the top of the nest by proding it with a trowel and a pour an entire kettle of boiling water over the nest to destroy every single ant in the colony, including the queen ant.

;) And then got busy with a trowel & joint compound & «venetian plastered» the living room ceiling looong b4 it was called that.

The product is applied with a trowel and covered with thin polythene to prevent evaporation.

then I sprinkled across the wet plaster with some verdigris tamise flakes (patina'd gold leaf pieces), then knocked it all down with my trowel

I can't believe you did this with a trowel and your finger.

A hardwood flooring adhesive is spread with a trowel to adhere your hardwood to the subfloor.

For larger holes, place an adhesive patch over the area and spread an all - purpose drywall compound over it with a trowel.

I added the adhesive to the plywood with a trowel and put down the tiles.

Remove the large debris (leaves, twigs, etc.) with a trowel and dump it in a bucket.

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

Still, she does lay it on with a trowel.

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

Onto this base Kelly then lays down impasto oil pigments with a trowel style brush, fragmenting the assemblage further.

This untitled and undated work by Bess looks like it was made with a trowel and a stick, yet it's nevertheless one of the most delicate and complex abstractions in a hall filled with great Modernists.

Pioneering a style of painting where large quantities of coloured paints were thickly applied to the canvas with a trowel, Riopelle gained increasing success and immersion in the Parisian cultural scene.

After 3 - 5 coats of gesso, two layers of oil ground are applied with a trowel.

You're going to make us go through the campaign with a trowel aren't you?

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.

Shocked, she can only stand in horror as she is stabbed to death with a trowel by her newly - turned daughter.

Because the context is destroyed by digging, interpretation has to begin «at the trowel's edge» — and so Hodder wants a lot of people looking over the shoulder of the person with the trowel.

I killed Japanese Beetles and sometimes even earth worms by accidentally maiming them with a trowel.

After deciding the layout of the peppers, dig a small hole with a trowel slightly larger than the root ball of the seedling.

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

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.

Not exact matches

The picture shows him squatting next to the «most disappointing toilet» he's ever encountered, steeling himself to gut the excrement - splattered commode with a garden trowel.

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.

Thus, for example, you have to become familiar with what a trowel is and how it is to be used, as well as mortar, which bricklayers usually call «mud.»

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.

12 - Green Toys Indoor Gardening Kit — comes with three pots, a tray holder, trowel, three soil discs, and three packs of organic seeds.Made from recycled milk containers.

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.

In the shocking world of Backyard, garden club backstabbers use dull gardening trowels, and the little old lady with loppers could be... an iris murderer!

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.

In the 1940s and 1950s the main groups within the Abstract expressionism were the «Gesture Painters» and the «Color - Field Painters», who experimented with new techniques for applying paint: dripping, pouring, throwing, squirting, squeegeeing, and spattering, and with the use of unconventional tools, such as wall paper brushes, sticks, and trowels.

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 geometry of the installation — quite beautiful — was in keeping with the purpose of the trowels.

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

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.

Leonhardt trowels oil paint with the palette knife, adeptly plowing layers of colors upon each other, as farmers might do part to enrich the soil for the next crop.

In a nutshell, what originally seemed extreme — she trowels buckets of paint onto huge canvases with palette knives and squeegees — now looks like a parlor trick.

With the decisiveness of a marksman, she trowels oil paint to existence, defining forms that are at times stubby vertical trunks or limber acrobatic shapes, but always exuberant impasto.

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.

Pollock emphasized the expressive power of the artist's gestures, materials, and tools, often applying paint with sticks, trowels, and palette knives instead of brushes.

Emphasizing the expressive power of the artist's gestures, materials, and tools, Pollock often applied paint with sticks, trowels, and palette knives instead of brushes.

As for his own practice, Dubuffet was busy scratching the canvas with his palette knife, a brush, or a trowel.

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.

In a recent work, «More or Less the Same» synthetic bones are fused with hand tools such as pliers, tin snips, spray guns and trowels and wrapped in grey silk thread.