Adjective complement with noun phrase

• do: I have got more of an ambition to do something arty than anything else.

Modifies a noun

• stuff: There will be food, drinks, games, arty stuff, clowns, face painting, bouncy castle, the works!

• folk: Our contemporary arty folk are trying a bit harder.

• crowd: Melinda And Melinda - Woody plays the Manhattan arty crowd and their complicated relationships once too often.

• shot: I couldn't resist this arty shot through the foliage.

• type: I concluded that I probably still need even more arty type supplies to have the studio of a proper artist.

• side: The are cool and complex with an arty side that Dalgleish brings out by being a poet on the side.

Modifying Another Word

• too: We try very hard not to make our posters too arty, which would only confirm the belief that theater is elitist.

• very: It's very arty, unlike System's previous albums, which is a very good sign.

• self-consciously: The new Furious Records HQ is cool without being self-consciously arty, trendy yet short of showing off.

• not: We are not arty farty, we know our market and can help you reach yours.

• rather: A rather arty aerial shot of the Ravens listening intently ( not!

• particularly: Enigmatic, because it was a mystery to me what he would make of it, not being a particularly arty, bohemian type.

Used with adjective complement

• get: Priced from only £ 24.99 you can afford to get arty!

• feel: Academic price about £ 45 but only worth getting if you want to put more advanced features in pages or are feeling arty.

• look: I grow them on home grown bamboo canes made into wigwams, which look arty!