How To Use Scumble In A Sentence
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In her previous show at this gallery, Yeardley Leonard exhibited a number of large horizontal paintings divided by lateral, multicolored bands of scumbled paint.
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Brogger seems intrigued by the processes of picture-building as he pours, drips, squeezes and scumbles pigment upon the light brown supports in several of the works.
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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.
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In his hands, thread, string and wool are used as expressively as the boldly poured and scumbled paint.
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Each is divided in half and painted in complementary blue/green and orange/yellow scumbles.
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Uncertainty of finish dominates all of her larger works, which feature drawn forms that have been rubbed out or partially scumbled over.
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A Scumble is generally a tint made of some colour mixed with white; its usual effect is to render the part of the picture where it is employed, somewhat cooler, grayer, and less defined than before; hence it is of great service in connecting any tendency to muddiness or dirtiness of colouring; and also to what is called hardness, or over-distinctness of detail.
Scumbling
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Merriam-Webster defines “scumble” as partly “to make as color or a painting less brilliant by covering with a thin coat of opaque or semiopaque color.”
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In Golden Bird House, a similarly disconcerting picture, scumbled ocher brushstrokes fill the sky behind a white turretlike construction resting atop a pole.
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When it's had time to dry off I shall apply a little scumble here and a little lining there, and sign it.
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The grounds below the stripes are not painted a single, neutral hue, but are worked and layered to produce scumbled textures as well as a sense of substance and depth.
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Cover this with a tinted glaze - either a scumble glaze tinted with artists' oil colours or a modern oil-based tinted varnish thinned with white spirits.
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On the scumbled, thickly painted surface of Voice III (1999-2000, shown at DC Moore) is the image of a woman, mouth open as if to sing or to accept a drink.
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Although the objects were mostly slick and smooth, most chose the cold-press so they could scumble the color over the toothy surface with a beveled pencil.
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His surfaces are extravagantly scumbled and full of ragged pentimenti; the boats look like they are embedded in the water rather than floating on it.
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The sense of tragedy, however, was oddly counteracted by the sweet colors that had been dripped and scumbled to cover the figures from head to bristle.
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His surfaces are extravagantly scumbled and full of ragged pentimenti; the boats look like they are embedded in the water rather than floating on it.
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Ten vocabularies scumbled inner hello, stippled wit black inc.
The light that draws the flower
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The actual paint is slopped and dripped and patched and layered and dabbed and spattered and scumbled and misted, sometimes in a natural-ish pattern, other times more fantastically.
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Here the last vestiges of the figurative, a few delicately poised hands, flowers and shells, are subsumed into patterned and highly coloured surfaces of glazes, scumbles, impasto, sgraffito, stipples, dots and splodges of paint.
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In another large work, soft-edged horizontal lines suggest a stack of stormy sunsets, with orange, rose and yellow scumbled between brown or black, in ominous bands.
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In Cyclop, a vertical canvas nearly 8 feet high, a lower section washed and scumbled in earthy pigments is topped by a configuration of wide white strokes circling a blue-black core.
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Gay Madness, ca. 1933, for example, explodes with Dionysian abandon, its flowers (if that's what they are) nearly pure color, with great swabs and scumbles radiating out from them.
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And Scully's scumbled paint handling, rapid overpainting that blurs edges and suggests that we can see into layers of paint, moves us still further away from the stasis of perfect geometry.
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The timber wainscot, panelling has been painted with a timber grain scumble.
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Staccato stabs of dry-brushed whites over pale, scumbled colors show the distinctive locale, the early light and the pale, prickly thickets of desert thornbush.
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Her variegated surfaces may be opaque or layered as transparent washes, glazed or scraped, scumbled, wiped down or sanded.
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Her variegated surfaces may be opaque or layered as transparent washes, glazed or scraped, scumbled, wiped down or sanded.
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In Golden Bird House, a similarly disconcerting picture, scumbled ocher brushstrokes fill the sky behind a white turretlike construction resting atop a pole.
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A $1 bill and the fragments of a 810 note have been pasted on canvas, covered by a thin scumble of paint, and further manipulated to give it a painty appearance.
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It is carefully and conscientiously applied: slathered, scumbled, scraped, drawn.
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The timber wainscot, panelling has been painted with a timber grain scumble.
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By contrast, a rough scumble delineates the areas of textile left showing through them.