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The plaster was sound, the intonaco firmly attached all over, and the pigment solidly incorporated with it in all but a few unimportant places.
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The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed, but his face was turned to the wall -- there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster -- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a pig-drunk bully now.
During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.
Green lumber was all very well back in the days of wet plaster, when the framing lumber was bound to swell and then shrink as tons of water dried out the gypsum.
Some of the lime that is always on hand in the Capitol basement for plaster repairs was slaked several months for us ; ;
This softened the skin so that in the morning when the bandage was removed the corn could be scraped off and a bit of corn plaster put on.
Bill Weigand was good and tired of the wall opposite, and the crack in the plaster.
It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.
Carnegie was so proud of " Dippi " that he had casts made of the bones and plaster replicas of the whole skeleton donated to several museums in Europe and South America.
The soft sandstone of the walls was originally protected by plaster internally and render externally.
After not being taken seriously about what he was seeing, Crew brought in his friend, Bob Titmus, to cast the prints in plaster.
During the Renaissance and the Baroque, visible brick walls were unpopular and the brickwork was often covered with plaster.
Such cartoons often have pinpricks along the outlines of the design ; a bag of soot was then patted or " pounced " over the cartoon, held against the wall to leave black dots on the plaster (" pouncing ").
He was seen by Reitell's doctor, Milton Feltenstein, who put his arm in plaster and treated him for gout and gastritis.
The exterior was insulated with bricks between the exterior's unpainted weatherboards and the interior's lath and plaster walls.
This was so that when the plaster with Ptolemy's name fell off, Sostratus's name would be visible in the stone.
Mezzo-fresco is painted on nearly-dry plaster was defined by the sixteenth-century author Ignazio Pozzo as " firm enough not to take a thumb-print " so that the pigment only penetrates slightly into the plaster.
It stands 3. 8 meters high, was molded in hammered copper from the plaster original, and covered with 22-karat gold leaf.
This refers to the Turkish governor of Athens, Tzisdarakis, who is recorded by a chronicler as having " destroyed one of Hadrian's columns with gunpowder " in order to re-use the marble to make plaster for the mosque that he was building in the Monastiraki district of the city.
The bones were measured and drawn, then a plaster cast was taken of the skull by artist William Scoular.
A plaster death mask was also made.
His Maserati was specially modified so that he could use all three of its pedals with his left foot ; his right was still in plaster.
plaster and sound
The addition of hard surfaced furniture, wall hangings, shelving and even baroque plaster ceiling decoration changes the echoes, primarily because of diffusion caused by reflective objects with shapes and surfaces having sizes on the order of the sound wavelengths.
In June 1996, while the group was playing at Brixton Academy, the sound system caused dust and plaster to fall from the roof ; subsequently, the group was banned from ever returning to the venue.
The gongs used in the films were props made of plaster or papier-mâché, with the sound of the gong done by James Blades on a Chinese instrument called a tam tam.
They were summarily banned from using the same sound system at the venue after the high bass levels started disintegrating the ceiling, resulting in showers of dust and plaster.
Working with renowned acoustical architects Bolt, Beranek and Newman, architect Saarinen employed free-hanging acoustic " clouds " that absorb and direct sound, instead of a traditional plaster ceiling.
plaster and intonaco
In our own practice, to have the last `` intonaco '' plaster coat thick enough to match, and at the same time to avoid fine cracks in drying, we found that it had to be put on in two layers, letting the first set awhile before applying the second.
Buon fresco technique consists of painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh ( hence the name ) lime mortar or plaster, for which the Italian word for plaster, intonaco, is used.
Because of the chemical makeup of the plaster, a binder is not required, as the pigment mixed solely with the water will sink into the intonaco, which itself becomes the medium holding the pigment.
On the day of painting, a thinner, smooth layer of fine plaster, the intonaco, is added to the amount of wall that can be expected to be completed in a day, sometimes matching the contours of the figures or the landscape, but more often just starting from the top of the composition.
A third type called a mezzo-fresco is painted on nearly dry intonaco — firm enough not to take a thumb-print, says the sixteenth-century author Ignazio Pozzo — so that the pigment only penetrates slightly into the plaster.
Many of the greatest paintings in Europe, like Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling are executed in fresco, meaning they are painted on a thin layer of wet plaster, called intonaco ( in fact the general term for plaster in Italian ); the pigments sink into this layer so that the plaster itself becomes the medium holding them, which accounts for the excellent durability of fresco.
At the outset, the plaster, intonaco, began to grow mold because it was too wet.
plaster and firmly
While assembled lid is still on design head, gently but firmly press it on plaster board.
plaster and all
Practically all bulky housing products can now be ordered in standard units palletized or unitized for mechanical handling -- including lumber, asphalt shingles, glass block, face brick, plaster, lime, hardboard, gypsum wallboard and sheathing, cement, insulation sheathing, floor tile, acoustical tile, plaster base, and asbestos shingles.
At the age of 75, alone and in mental and physical despair, he completed the work as one of his 14 Black Paintings, all of which were executed in oil directly onto the plaster walls of his house.
The additional a secco work would be done to make changes, and sometimes to add small details, but also because not all colours can be achieved in true fresco, because only some pigments work chemically in the very alkaline environment of fresh lime-based plaster.
The materials used to build a Mesopotamian house were the same as those used today: mud brick, mud plaster and wooden doors, which were all naturally available around the city, although wood could not be naturally made very well during the particular time period described.
Each building has a gable, those on the outer buildings being larger than those on the inner buildings, and all are decorated with brick and plaster.
The plaque has been set in plaster and unfortunately not all the glazed decoration survived.
The construction of the stone walls appears to have been the same for all groups: a core of mud and stone covered with plaster or well-cut trachyte rock.
In all cases, wherever the bricks are left fully visible — as opposed to being covered up by plaster or stucco — they are called facing bricks.
The original building required extensive renovations including: a new stage, all new seating, plaster and lath work, and restoration of historical decorations.
The plaster rococo ceiling remains in all its splendour.
He was thin and emaciated and had sticking plaster all over his face, notably a big piece sealing his mouth.
He wrote all his answers, unable as he was to speak through the sticking plaster.
Constructed from temporary materials ( primarily staff, a combination of plaster and burlap fiber ), almost all the fair's various buildings and attractions were pulled down in late 1915.
The existing exterior stucco was removed and replaced with new material ; the interior plaster, wood windows and shutter were restored ; fireplace mantels, stone and wood floors in the basement, and the existing cedar roof were all repaired ; and a new exterior sidewalk was added to a handicap ramp.
The restorations included new carpets, draperies, and lighting fixtures that duplicated the original designs, and historically accurate restoration of all plaster and paint surfaces throughout the lobby, lounges, foyers, and the auditorium.
According to Michelangelo's pupil and biographer Ascanio Condivi, the brackets and frame that supported the steps and flooring were all put in place at the beginning of the work and a lightweight screen, possibly cloth, was suspended beneath them to catch plaster drips, dust and splashes of paint.
Few windows overlook the inner courtyard (" cortile "); the colonnaded walls are decorated on all sides by deep niches and blind windows, and the intervening surfaces are spattered by ' spezzato ' ( broken and blemished plaster ) giving life and depth to the surfaces.
The frescoes consist of painting on top of fresh plaster, so that when the plaster is dried the painting becomes part of the plaster and an integral part of the wall, which helps it survive so well ( indeed, almost all of surviving Etruscan and Roman painting is in fresco ).
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