Sentence examples for bits of painted from inspiring English sources

(Cotter) Brian Adam Douglas: 'How to Disappear Completely' (closes on Saturday) Brian Adam Douglas makes paintings by gluing tiny bits of painted paper to wooden panels.

(Rosenberg) Galleries: Chelsea Brian Adam Douglas: 'How to Disappear Completely' (through Oct. 26) Mr. Douglas makes paintings by gluing zillions of tiny bits of painted paper to wooden panels.

He glues zillions of tiny bits of painted paper to wooden panels to create extraordinarily complex, finely grained mosaics.

Fun is not quite the right word to describe these playful, zany images, for they are also pensive, the product of trial and error, the artist concocting challenging and dynamic compositions with bits of painted wood or canvas.

Wordless except for their often useful titles, and gray except for their startling bits of painted colors, these pieces fully exploit and usually satisfy our tendency to read narrative into every image that comes our way, a skill developed in no small part by watching movies.

The best pieces are an immense, hairy, hyperreal beer belly, unencumbered by limbs or head, that might have been made by Ron Mueck, and a bit of painted tree trunk on a pedestal covered with bright handwritten words that resembles the text-covered paintings of Peter Davies.

Patrick told me that he'd just as soon spend the whole day looking at pictures, and that he had done a bit of painting himself.

Figuring things out requires moving through the paintings in a distinctly spatial way, as if through a darkened aquarium inhabited by suspended bits of paint instead of fish.

Look even closer and one will notice the multicolored bits of paint splattered across most of the surfaces of this ruin.

The next generation will use immunology — for example, one design has dried antibodies attached to bits of paint that drift over a surface to which other antibodies are fixed.

You can squeeze out the last bits of paint from old tubes this way.