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A fire bucket is a bucket filled with water or sand which is used to prevent or extinguish fires. Typically, fire buckets are painted bright red and have the word fire stencilled on them. Often they have a convex, protruding bottom. The rounded bottom results in a strong, directed stream of water when the water is thrown at the fire.
Clemens separated the sand grains into piles, by color, and used them to form the basis for his art. [2] His brothers would gather dislodged pieces of sandstone from the bluffs, take them home and sort them, dry, and grind each sample into fine powder—which gave Andrew a rich palette for his designs. [6] Sand bottle by Andrew Clemens, 1879
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A sand glass is a display in which there are multiple colors of sand in water between two sheets of glass. Unlike sand paintings, a sand glass is meant to be turned; the sand, traditionally in black and a light color, moves into new shapes with each turn. The term "sand glass" is a translation of the Portuguese phrase quadro de areia, literally ...
The colors for the painting are usually made with naturally colored sand, crushed gypsum (white), yellow ocher, red sandstone, charcoal, and a mixture of charcoal and gypsum (blue). Mixing red and black can make brown, red and white make pink. Other coloring agents include corn meal, flower pollen, or powdered roots and bark.
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Paint This with Jerry Yarnell is an educational television show produced by Jerry Yarnell, owner of the Yarnell School of Fine Art. It is broadcast primarily on public television channels.
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