Sentences with phrase «wood scraps from»

The best part is that I used wood scraps from my ever growing pile and shells my daughter has collected on our trips to the beach!

When she was six years old, she found great amusement in playing with wood scraps from her father's lumberyard; this early experimentation led her to announce, at the age of nine, her desire to become a sculptor.

They use unused wood scrap from skateboards to make these sustainable floating sunglasses.

Not exact matches

Pellet cookers need to use «food grade» pellets, not the less expensive (and more available) heating pellets that are made from a variety of wood that is often recycled scraps.

Upcycled Bird Sculpture by Laurie Coyle Designs (LaurieCoyleDesigns.Etsy.com); made using fabric scraps from a friend's handbag - making business, fulled sweater remnants from another friend's blanket - making business, metal scraps from my husband's metal - working and wood salvaged from our home - improvement projects.

This is our craft table that my husband made from scrap wood, perfect height for the little ones!

Most, if not all, of these toys would have been homemade — carved animals, board games scratched into a scrap of wood, roughly carved toy houses, and «rag baby» dolls made from bits of left over fabric.

Make your own blocks from wood scraps to create this nature - inspired display.

Materials • Rubbing alcohol (70 percent isopropyl alcohol) • Measuring spoons • Small bowl • Three long strands of human hair (about 20 centimeters long) • Cotton swabs • Measuring tape or ruler • Thin, flat piece of plastic that can easily be cut (about 8.0 cm long and 8.0 cm wide), such as from the lid of a disposable deli container • Scissors (strong enough to cut the plastic piece) • Dime • Tape • Two small nails • Glue • Scrap piece of wood or flat Styrofoam (about 25 cm long and 10 cm wide) • Hammer • Pencil or pen • Hair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small bowl.

Debris from shattered homes can be the most devastating aspect of a storm, sending a cloud of shrapnel - like pieces of scrap metal and wood flying at hundreds of miles an hour into house after house.

Bee houses and hotels can be made from scrap wood and leftover materials you probably already have laying around in your house.

On our right we have a coat rack made from a scrap of wood & coat hooks that were already in the house.

My grandfather made the sled from scrap wood back in the 1980's.

Take your «Donate» and «Trash» bins and keep them far far away from my cardboard, craft paint and scrap wood.

Erica installed open shelving to add storage without taking up space, and the floating vanity, made from a scrap piece of wood, makes the space feel open and airy.

Paint a test swatch on the back of a scrap of wood from the boards to see if the coverage is right.

I even whipped up a cute «home» sign out of scraps from our pallet wood arrow and some rope for hanging.

The little wood banner hanging on the mirror was made from scraps of wood leftover from my plank wall.

I had a scrap piece of wood left over from another project (12 ″ x24 ″).

To the right of the backdrop is a Christmas Silent Night Sign using scrap wood and a cut out from my Silhouette Cameo... are we noticing a trend here?

I created the Joy Christmas Sign using scrap wood, stencil cut from Silhouette Cameo and acrylic paint.

Previously, dogs had eaten a mixture of table scraps, leftovers, and foods they were able to scavenge from the woods and fields.

Short Circuit is made of classic Combine ingredients: thick brushstrokes, a lace curtain, a scrap of polka - dotted fabric, postcard images of a Renaissance painting and Abraham Lincoln, a word scramble, a program from an early John Cage concert, and a Judy Garland autograph, all affixed with paint to a chassis made of scrap wood and cupboard doors.

Hannelore Baron's sculptural hodgepodges — assembled from wood scraps, personal belongings, and other refuse — reflect the losses she experienced as a child during Hitler's regime: before her family escaped Germany, their textile shop was destroyed and their home ransacked during Kristallnacht.

He sketches Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus in 1960, but his Damascus moment came the next year, with blond scrap wood held together by screws and suspended from the ceiling.

For instance, Esteban Vicente (1903 — 2001) elevated scraps of wood from his studio in Bridgehampton to create Divertimienti, small assemblages that transcend their humble materials.

Her artworks from this time were mostly made from junkyard scraps and driftwood, assembled and used in a way to make upright wood sculptures.

Her legacy will be perhaps the «shacks» which she creates by first photographing the dwellings, then drawing them with pastel oil sticks and, finally, constructing models of them from scraps of wood and metal.

Circles, squares, cones, and wedges are formed with found wood from ships, beach shacks, and barrels, sometimes with tar or rusted scraps of metaldotting the surfaces.

Using materials that felt familiar from use - scraps of fabric, wood, string, wire, pieces from children's games, printed labels and other discarded items - artist and Holocaust survivor Hannelore Baron (1926 - 1987) constructed intimately scaled works that offer glimpses into history, the human condition and the artist's past.

The ramp, formed by a variety of materials that range from generic folding chairs to conventional industrial building materials and scrap wood from a previous installation, is not fixed, so that the substructure can compress into spaces, against walls, into corners, and wrap around architectural details.

Lovingly cobbled together from scraps of wood and tin, twigs, buttons, bottles and such, they are simultaneously poignant memorials to the poverty and struggles of their inhabitants and proud testaments to their resilience.

Though cast in bronze, it looks like a carved piece of scrap wood, left over from a safety barrier.

In the late 1940s, she collected scraps of wood from the street, hacking them away almost carelessly, stacking them as she may.

His drawings, paintings, and mixed - media installations take their inspiration from contemporary urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles and spray - paint cans, tagged signs, wrenches, and scrap wood or metal.

The collages, made from Thomas's own photographs, are hung salon - style, in clusters of riotous leopard and zebra prints, wood paneling and scraps of re-created 1970s - era interiors.

Next up is the 1998 piece «The Creation Myth,» a sort cityscape built from scrap wood, folding tables, buckets and mirrors; a toy train outfitted with a fake snake and a live - feed video camera navigates the piece, its findings are projected on monitors.

Known by the tag name «Twist» for his graffiti and street art, McGee has also developed a career within museums and galleries, exhibiting drawings, paintings, prints, and large - scale, mixed - media installations that take inspiration from urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles, cans of spray paint, signs, scrap wood or metal, surfboards, and other found materials.

As a child, Alexander Calder had his own workshop where he created gadgets and toys from scraps of metal and wood.

The damaged artworks were 12 crown - like sculptures made from a mixture of materials, including precious metals, marble, wood, nylon and scrap metal.

Peter Buggenhout, a Belgian artist showing at Gladstone Gallery, covered a junkyard's worth of scrap metal, wood and other found objects with vacuum cleaner dust to create what I described in the review as «massive stacks of debris [that] hang off the wall or sprawl across the floor in a state of dereliction and collapse, monumental castoffs from a world spinning out of control.»

From oil paintings and terra - cotta figures, she passed onto collages, made of scraps of wood and metal she would find on the streets.

In its general sense, «Arte Povera» (an Italian term meaning poor / impoverished art, allegedly derived from the «poor theatre» of the Polish film director Jerzy Grotowski) describes a type of avant - garde art made from «found objects» including worthless materials, like soil, bits of wood, rags, scraps of newspaper.

His drawings, paintings, and mixed - media installations take their inspiration from contemporary urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles and spray - paint cans, tagged signs, wrenches, and scrap wood or metal into overwhelming, space - transforming interior worlds.

Rick Bartow, at the Missoula Art Museum exhibition of Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation and as part of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation Outreach Program, explains the importance of art and making «something different» out of scraps of wood and materials.

«Six Panels: Al Taylor» comprises a selection of drawings and three - dimensional assemblages fashioned from humble, often whimsically chosen materials, including wire, bits of scrap wood, tin cans and broom handles.

Assemblages use scrap wood from New Mexico, and the drawings on notebook paper involve colorful, energetic markings.

Part two shows that, contrary to some industry claims, the brunt of the wood in pellets is from hardwood trees, not scrap and waste.

A few scraps of brightly painted wood from the local abandoned WWII army camp, Camp Lockett, were saved until their place in the home revealed itself.

The waste wood, tree branches and other scraps are gathered together from factories and from farms to a biomass power plant.