Sentence examples for threads of paint from inspiring English sources

A single mammoth landscape might contain all of the following: asymmetrical bare branches that nod to Japanese woodcuts, naïve animals that refer to Henri Rousseau's paintings, atmospheric washes that evoke Helen Frankenthaler's stain canvases and thick threads of paint squeezed directly from the tube that mimic embroidery.

Viewed from afar, these gossamer threads of paint blur to create a face that looks three-dimensional; up close, the tiny concentric lines resemble the swirls of a fingerprint.

The threads of enamel paint spinning across the surface of "No. 4, 1948: Gray and Red" at the Guggenheim, scattering comets and spermatazoa as they go, were dripped and spattered downward from midair.

Surveys of workers occupationally exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the production of thread or of paint, and of yusho patients were carried out from 1973 to 1982.

Clean the threads on paint tubes after using them.

Ms. Quaytman's work can be seen as picking up the threads of many postwar painting arguments.

Although Mr. Sylvor employs woodcarvers to create new classic-style carousels, most of the demand these days is for merry-go-rounds formed from polyester resin reinforced with bristly threads of fiberglass, then painted in bright, fast-drying latex colors.

Spools of thread stand in for small dabs of paint, and the images, which hang upside-down, appear upright only when viewed through optical devices.

Problems with couplings on the fire hoses exacerbated the situation – the fire hydrants had been regularly painted, and a build up of paint on the coupling threads prevented the hoses from being attached to the hydrants.

But here's the thing: Chapin won the BP Portrait Award last year, an important British award, with a similar painting, and you should have seen the vitriol in the comment threads of online articles about the painting, the whining and bitching about "why do I have to look at this woman?" So - yes, it's an issue (although there was a lot of praise in those threads too).

In sum, the medium-quality canvas of the disputed painting, with threads of different thickness, seems to deviate from the higher-quality textile that characterizes the young Van Dyck's painting practice.