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...He rarely paints the walls a solid colour: there is always a specific texture or a level of craft....
...It sits just to the left of the grand semi-circular stone staircase that leads to the rest of the living quarters on the first floor. The house has no proper dining room....
...“It has a Code Zero sail, which is very big – 77m down the front edge – and semi-translucent,” says Harris. “It’s a bit like working in stained glass.”...
...The film, she added, seemed intended to gloss over the scandals that ended his time in office and encourage the electorate to forget the mistakes that have tarnished Austria’s reputation....
...Each ripple paints refracted lines on the pool’s dark blue walls. On some hidden signal, the pair dive down below me....
...Semi-sheer cotton voile fabrics are easy to source, but think outside the box: vintage tablecloths can work beautifully when transformed into blinds....
...A complex, dazzling technique of layers of transparent glazes and resin enhanced gloss, translucency, glamour....
...More interesting was a dress that looked as if it had been poured on to the model from a tin of white paint, draped and left to dry....
...She has since used it for several clients: one Chelsea home features a “really cool high-gloss, blue-lacquer cabinet” fronted with a series of gilded, butterfly-themed collages by the artist Beatrice von...
...You used a word that I don’t know — gloss? It was like something like a . . . Angela Rodel A stealth gloss. Lilah Raptopoulos A stealth gloss. What’s a stealth gloss?...
...Worst case, you can paint it again.” Most importantly, though: “I didn’t want to move into a house that was ready-made or that was 100 per cent perfect....
...Among her radical experiments were Op Art reflective paintings on Venetian blinds (disparaged by one male critic as “housewife art”) and black paint on shiny aluminium....
...A Cubist grape was a gloss on that gloss, a wry, worldly comment on the tradition of reading food for spiritual meaning....
...I arrive 15 minutes early to an empty restaurant and am led to a semi-private room at the back....
...Inside, the thick, shiny paint was fresh from recent restoration work, distracting the senses from conjuring their presence....
...While Banks’s songs often paint her as an ill-fated lover, she’s evidently also a fighter....
...Scottish artist France-Lise McGurn paints overlapping figures combined with colour to suggest “a feeling or rhythm”....
...The former world semi-finalist built a classic attacking position before unleashing a tactic which every player should know. Click here for solution...
...brief survey of the reasons I want one of Politi’s artworks in my home: the rigour with which this 36-year-old Roman artist engages with texture and depth; his sophisticated eye for colour; his process (he paints...
...The same logic was apparent in the accompanying make-up looks, where pops of colour were met with glitter, embellishments and figurative flecks of paint....
...The Rothko-sized white canvases flanking the black box stage act as screens for Kalman’s ingenious shadowplay, which becomes a gloss on the drama itself — huge Phaedra, tiny Hippolytus — and the strength...
...Then he delivers a 10-minute monologue about packaged fruit company Dole sending Georgia O’Keeffe to Hawaii in 1939 to paint pineapples....
...Such delights are familiar territory to those people who see a vision of their perfect family home through the peeling textured wallpaper of an unloved semi-detached....
...The divide mostly lies between those who paint British Rail, where 10 Foot is now, and those who paint the Tube. “It’s like different leagues,” 10 Foot says....
...By blending evidence from the scanty texts we have with up-to-date archaeology, plus piquant, even romantic evocations of sites and landscapes, Lost Realms paints a broad picture that makes credible sense...
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