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Definition of Impasting
1. impaste [v] - See also: impaste
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impasting
Literary usage of Impasting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to the Paintings of Venice: Being an Historical and Critical Account by Frank Tryon Charles (1895)
"impasting is the term applied to laying colours in thick masses on the lights.
It helps to produce the appearance of roundness and relief. ..."
2. Handbook of Young Artists and Amateurs in Oilpainting: Being Chiefly a by Laughton Osborn, Pierre Louis Bouvier (1849)
"OF impasting, OR THICK PAINTINS. HAVING discoursed of glazing, it is right that
we should say something of the opposite mode of using colors ; then, ..."
3. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon (1906)
"impasting. — In oil painting, the shadows or dark portions of the picture are
painted thinly, while the lights are laid on or ..."
4. Ladies' Manual of Art: Or, Profit and Pastime : a Self Teacher in All by Donohue, M.A. & Company, Chicago (1890)
"impasting. In oil painting, the dark shadows, or dark portions of the picture,
are painted thinly, while the lights are laid on, ..."
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