Sentences with phrase «wood pieces work»

I happen to love eclectic styles and contrasts between light and dark, so a few darker wood pieces work for me in the overall mix of my home's decor.

Not exact matches

It was a late 1960s or early 1970s piece, complete with «luxurious» orange drapery behind wrought iron and wood, smoked mirror accents, a built - in turntable and sound system and a flip - on faux fireplace.

He does still lifes, working in close on almost anything — a single blossom, a piece of wood, a rock.

In other words, we shouldn't seek ways to hammer and nail our children into a predesigned shape, like a carpenter working on a piece of wood.

I used to make wooden automata and admire the work of Robert Race who makes great pieces with mainly recycled wood.

If you need furniture, scour charity shops for old stools, benches, drawers and shelves but bear in mind that dark - stained wood can soak up light and dominate a photograph, so if your products need something lighter consider stripping back any imposing pieces or painting to a shade that's easier to work with.

The tip is designed not to leave any marks, too, so you don't need to worry about scuffing up the wood or fabric of the piece you're working on.

It seems to work best on smaller pieces of wood, but if that's all you're splitting, this is the perfect machine.

When you are working with big pieces of wood or projects that require a fast, clean cut, you can run the saw at the higher speed.

Again, you will want to find a band saw with the most capacity so that you can work on larger pieces of wood.

A larger capacity means you can work with larger pieces of wood.

It still has the ability to cut through most pieces of wood without getting bogged down, so unless you are doing heavy, industrial work every day, this band saw will work perfectly and save you a lot of money.

«Many of the pieces of wood were worked, and already several objects have been identified, such as parts of buckets, a spatula or spoon, a spool and a rounded object that might be a knob or child's top,» she said.

Materials • Two «two - by - four» or similar size wood planks, about one half meter long works best • Small plastic tub with lid • Sand or another dense material to fill the tub • Water • Freezer • Books • Ruler • Protractor • A carpeted area or a rug that can get damp (or a protective covering, such as a large plastic trash bag) Preparation • Make sure that the pieces of wood have surfaces that are similar in roughness and are about the same length and width.

However... if you wanted to do a quick experiment / study to * test paint * ~ why not use some plain piece of furniture that did not have all the beautiful wood, the line work, the curves and other features of this Art Deco styled beauty?

I am also reminded during the work just how much I truly do love wood, its so beautiful and every piece is so unique.

By sanding the piece, the wax gets worked into the grooves of the raw wood on the painted furniture, brings out the dark tone and «ages» the piece.

Made of solid wood, it is a timeless piece that works with any decor and can be stored when not in use.

Since the piece has a base, to get it completely flat on the paper, pull the paper and the wood piece to the edge of a table or work surface.

Please note: As each piece of wood used by the artisans is one of a kind, no two pendants will be alike, making your necklace a wearable work of art.

Rubbermaid must have worked out a deal with Ford for trim pieces; I'm sure the hard plastic that covers the dash, the doors and even the center of the steering wheel are easy to clean, but they contrasts unfavorably with the softer, more upmarket materials and faux - woods used elsewhere.

There is no mistaking the resonate crunching sound of rodent teeth gnawing on a piece of wood, and it's a good sound — it means that the rat is working on a chew toy instead of trying to destroy his plastic exercise wheel or dish.

Branches and twigs from untreated trees will work, as will any small piece of wood that hasn't been treated with chemicals.

For others, a piece of corrugated cardboard mounted on a piece of wood works just fine.

These guest rooms combine contemporary decor with everyday functionality, highlighted by walnut wood panelling, unique lighting fixtures, a luxurious five piece bathroom, a work desk, an LCD television and high - speed Internet access.

Fairmont Gold Rooms combine contemporary decor with everyday functionality, highlighted by walnut wood panelling, an LCD television, a luxurious five piece bathroom, work desk and high - speed Internet access.

They also make all - natural paints from the local red, white and black volcanic rocks; they spin their works on a manual pottery wheel, shaping each piece with dried gourd shells and corncobs; and then dry their pottery alternately in the sun and in a wood - fired oven.

Every piece of material for the building is a work of art, the furniture is made from the finest quality antique wood, using top quality timber from old phinisi boats, wooden Javanese houses and recycled antique woods that are well over 100 years old..

Featuring small works on paper and a selection of larger mixed - media pieces on wood panel, the show runs from May 27th to July 10, 2016.

His early dyed - and - sewn canvas pieces, which sold for $ 450 in the 1960s, now bring $ 200,000, while wood works that sold for $ 450 in 1965 are reaching $ 450,000, and a 1966 installation of the 26 letters of the alphabet, composed of soldered tin, sold at auction to MoMA for $ 1 million.

Among the pieces displayed were plywood slats — angled pieces of wood that pointed, like split arrows, up to the ceiling; tin alphabet letters that appeared to have been hurled randomly at the wall but were actually carefully arranged (recently purchased by MoMA); cloth octagons in dyed pastels and white paper octagons glued to the wall; «string pieces,» or drawings dancing across the floor; and wire works.

Hansa artists» works represented in the Grey show include Jane Wilson's Portrait of Jane Freilicher (1957), an oil on canvas merging abstraction with figuration, and Jean Follett's Many - Headed Creature (1958), a piece that recreates a fragmented body on a wood panel out of junk and found objects — a light switch, socket cooling coils, a window, a screen, nails, a faucet knob, mirror twine, cinders, a caster, springs, and rope.

For the past decade, she has been making bronze work, cast from «stray, downed pieces of wood.»

Andrew's newest work is a new study in creating sculpture using over 500 pieces of recycled wood that are inserted at varying depths into a 36» x 36» wood panel with a black automotive paint background.

See photos from the acclaimed sculptor's showcase of new work, which includes a 30 - million - year old piece of wood.

While working on Bowrain (2010), a large - scale installation involving hundreds of pieces of wood wired together, I realized that my aesthetic is pretty close to the Groobees»: visual decisions arise out of necessity or limitation, rather than vision.

The Spring 2018 Graduate Theses Exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery highlights the works of seven graduate students: Alexandra Cao Ying, MFA, Studio Arts, Let One Hundred Flowers Blossom, # 087, oil on panel, 6x6 inches; Bianka Miranda, MFA, Studio Arts, Aa, acrylic on panel, 18x24 inches; Gabriela Melendez, MA, Studio Arts, Beneath the Skin, wood, plaster, silicone, 34x16x72 inches; Raquel Rojas, MFA, Studio Arts, Aborto, acrylic on canvas, 9x12 inches; Saul Aguilera, MFA, Studio Arts, En Los Tiempos de Las Golondrinas: Sun Frida, mixed media; Sean Kelly, MFA, Studio Arts, Mythic Landscape, (detail pieces of two - part installations) ceramic, wood, 78x99x51 inches and 78x39x39 inches; Teresa Carrasco, MFA, Studio Arts, Shoot Em Up Bang Bang!

Working exclusively in black and white, Yoshimura prepared a series of aluminum - mounted on wood panel pieces where he draws intricate imagery using marker, acrylic, spray, and grease pencil.

One of the most powerful sculptures in the exhibition is a small textile work by Louise Bourgeois: a sickly salmon - pink hand sewn crudely, its gnarled fingers outstretched, sits on a worm - eaten piece of wood.

This exhibition will feature key works from the Museum's collection, including sculptures in stone, a selection documenting Noguchi's experimentation with stainless steel and aluminum sculptures from the 1950s, as well as rarely shown pieces from the early 1940s incorporating string and wood elements.

The current exhibition includes ten sculptures spanning from the early wood and glass works through to the seventies» etched glass and steel pieces and finally his last works - the blown glass and bronze works of the eighties.

Joe Iurato (NY): Joe Iurato's stencil work on wood cutouts, both as installations and photographed pieces in urban landscapes, have become iconic in the world of street art.

Whereas later wood works, including Cedar Piece 1959/1964 and Secant 1977, are not cut into or drastically altered but rather are arranged by the artist, these early sculptures stand out as singular works.

Select highlights include: Lehmann Maupin's sale of several McArthur Binion works ranging from $ 50,000 - 175,000 to trustees of two leading U.S. museums, as well as collectors new to the gallery; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac's sale of two works by George Baselitz in a range of c. $ 599,000 - 838,000 each, a Robert Rauschenberg work for $ 725,000, a Tony Cragg sculpture for c. $ 210,000, and a metal and wood piece by Jack Pierson for $ 190,000; Royale Projects sold three Clinton Hill paintings at around $ 95,000 each to collectors from New York and California; David Kordansky sold out its booth of photography by Torbjørn Rødland in the range of $ 14,00028,000 each; Jack Shainman's sales of recent work by Hank Willis Thomas, including a major sculpture, a retroflective, and one of Thomas» iconic flags in the Live section, and works by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, Becky Suss, Enrique Martinez Celaya and Geoffrey Chadsey; Gallery Hyundai's sale of a pair piece by Seung - taek Lee for $ 100,000 - 200,000 and two works by Minjung Kim for $ 40,000 - 100,000.

Bringing together a minimalist structural rigour contrasted with unfolding fields of energy, Altmejd recognizes the primacy of the conceptual approach in shaping the cycles that run through his work: heads, constructed, architectural pieces, werewolves, bird men, giants, bodybuilders, guides, watchmen... The abrupt changes in scale (from the minuscule to the monumental), profusion of materials (crystals, mirrors, synthetic hair and fur, resin, wood, metal) and the various devices he uses to occupy the space (platforms, display cases, oversized cabinets) are all strategies that position the artist as a creator of all possibilities.

Alexander Calder used materials such as cork, buttons, and string in his work, while Robert Indiana used pieces of found wood and bicycle wheels.

To further show the organic nature of the work, some pieces naturally lift up while others stay flat, and the artist has left the wood unpainted.

The formula was basic: to carve wood into small, semiabstract forms resembling spoons, chess pieces, African sculptures (and works by Brancusi and Giacometti), bones, bobbins, balls, melon slices, sand dollars and toy boats.

The works are created with humble and fragile materials such as paper, wood, wire or metal piece.

Soft and circular lines are intercepted by jagged pieces of wood paneling, as ever a reminder that his work can be both camp and violent at the same time.