What is "overpaint"

Usage examples of "overpaint".

If you try to overpaint oils too soon the layers can mix and go muddy.

I started with the neck, conscious that if the whole concept were in fact beyond my ability, I could overpaint a fluffy scarf or jewel decoration to conceal the failure.

Lot 13, when a second glance at the portrait had reinforced the feeling that under the layers of grime and overpaint lay buried treasure.

With no distraction from Wayne and Eddie she worked steadily without interruption, and by late afternoon most of the overpaint was removed, leaving the portrait almost ready to part with its discoloured varnish.

All right, you could always overpaint and for the sake of attempting that glimpse of her sexuality, I would certainly do so once at least, but this was not a two-month painting or even a one-month painting.

A steady stream of overpainted women in gowns side-slit right up to their waists was flocking into the castle, greeted by drunken shouts of enthusiasm from half-dressed armaragors.

He examined it closely and thought he could discern, beneath the military crest, an overpainted picture of a bottle of sauce being upended on a plate of shrimps.

The trailer was filled with electronic equipment, all of it used-looking, all carrying that overpainted, spotlessly clean stamp of military hardware.

He was looking at the tiny, overpainted black cannon, donated to the town by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

I step through the single gated opening in the high wall and wave to the sexton, a guileless old man named Samuel, whose principal job seems to be to sit on an overpainted metal bench near the neat little stone cottage just inside the cemetery gates, smiling vacuously at every person who enters the grounds.

His overpainted face and exaggerated mode of dress only served to repulse her although his conversation was entertaining enough for a short period.

Women, underclothed and overpainted, leaned from the upper windows and made frequent sallies into the street to capture their prey.

This surprises me, because the cathedral is probably the most overpainted image in New Orleans, done and redone by students and hacks who hawk them to the tourists in Jackson Square.

There, in a squalid doorway apart from the more wholesome foot-traffic, as Millie watched from concealment behind a shuttered kiosk, Kafka approached two gaudy women of obvious ill repute, leaving, after a slight dickering, with both of the overpainted floozies, plainly headed toward the entrance of a nearby fleabag hotel.

When it got unbearable she went to overheated patisseries where overpainted ladies took off their furs, arranged their large bosoms and stared at her.