impasto

How To Use impasto In A Sentence

• Now he added thick daubs of paint to the front of the panels, sometimes to the sides, using heavy impasto and deliberately crude designs.
• Two large 1957 canvases, All Alone and Body and Soul, each about 3 by 5 feet, are playful images with pink scumbled lines activating the rich off-white, pale blue, brown and gray impasto at the center of the canvases.
• His paintings had a long gestation and longer execution during which the paint surface was built up by palette knife into a thick impasto.
• The tapestry cartoons are virtual paintings, executed in opaque gouache on large sheets of thick paper joined together at the edges, and exhibit layering of colors, visible brushwork, and touches of impasto.
• The text is larded with distracting verbal tics, including a smattering of needless Gallicisms—such as noting that she had problems with her "foie" aka, liver—local color thickened to impasto. The Sound of France
• In each, Krahenbuhl runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques: glazing, impasto, scumbling, decalcomania, fluid linear strokes and so on.
• They share a common format: an impastoed yet atmospheric field of black palette-knife strokes is contained by four crisp, unmodulated black margins, 1 1/2 inches wide.
• These immensely appealing paintings feature vivid colors, slathered impasto and homespun comedy.
• An earlier work in the series, Main Street, Port Elizabeth, is rendered in thick impasto marks.
• The landscape background of Elizabeth's portrait in particular is remarkably abstract, using strong colour and thick impasto.