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- noun type of
hardboard formed using wooden chips and blasting them into long fibers with steam and then forming them into boards
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Examples
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It consists of a 4x4-foot piece of masonite, a wood composite, which cost about $20 at Home Depot.
Putting the Fun Back Into Exercise With a Little Footwork Jen Murphy 2011
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Once she is happy with the multiple color and grid studies, the painting then gets enlarged and finalized on 12″x12″ or 24″x24″ canvas masonite boards.
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He does a mix of things, including abstract printing, painting and collaging using different materials like wood, craft board, masonite panel, canvas and paper.
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They do have shields for dancing I made a couple for the camp with masonite, much better than the plywood monstrosities they'd been using, but in that particular culture they didn't obscure the whole thing with feathers.
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010
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Back in December, right after Christmas, my little sister sat me down with a paintbrush and a piece of gessoed masonite and said, “Paint me one of your ladies.”
Return of The Ladies princessalethea 2010
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It's been noted that the David Trulli's mostly monochromatic ink, clay and varnish on masonite works are loose analogues for some sense of isolation we feel in lives lived through -- literally -- inanimate objects.
ArtScene: Art Built From the Inside That's Not Just for Insiders 2010
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It's been noted that the David Trulli's mostly monochromatic ink, clay and varnish on masonite works are loose analogues for some sense of isolation we feel in lives lived through -- literally -- inanimate objects.
ArtScene: Art Built From the Inside That's Not Just for Insiders 2010
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Seen here, "In The Grand Scheme" (oil on masonite, 35 "x 24".)
Boing Boing 2008
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FOR THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KINGSIZE, 1996, acrylic and enamel on masonite, 244.3 x 427.9 cm, courtesy of the Marsters family, photo: David Barbour, © CARCC 2008.
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FOR THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KINGSIZE, 1996, acrylic and enamel on masonite, 244.3 x 427.9 cm, courtesy of the Marsters family, photo: David Barbour, © CARCC 2008.
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