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Thickly laid paint
Answer for the clue "Thickly laid paint ", 7 letters:
impasto
Alternative clues for the word impasto
- What batsman off the mark might say is an art form
- Technique involving thickly applied paint
- Nimrod's too old for love and laying it on thick
- Painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible
- Ma’s top I replaced, putting on thick coat
- Thickly applied paint
- Artistic technique using thick layers of paint
- Spot aim that's developed in painting technique
Word definitions for impasto in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impasto \Im*pas"to\, n. [It. See Impaste .] (Paint.) The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole. --Fairholt.
Usage examples of impasto.
The seething color field in which the street was painted, the impasto from which his features had been carved, and of course that detail Ted had been so proud to point out to Harry in the gallery: the foot, the heel, the snake writhing as it was trodden lifeless.
Behind it, Johnnie Bulb appeared, a shadow, a monochrome, a flat and coloured impasto, and finally the vivid man, standing beside the furnace.
No impasto here: "long" paint, everything put there more than real could ever be.
Above them, the sky was deepening, color impastoed onto the undersides of clouds as the sun swung lower in the sky.