to paint in fresco

  • 11fresco painting — Method of wall painting in which water based pigments are applied to wet, freshly laid lime plaster. The dry powder colours, when mixed with water, penetrate the surface and become a permanent part of the wall. This technique is also known as… …

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  • 12paint — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Pigment] Syn. coloring material, chroma, chlorophyll; see color 1 . Paints and colorings include artist s materials: oil, acrylic, pastel, gouache, crayon, charcoal, watercolor, ink, pencil, showcard color, tempera;… …

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  • 13Paint — For other uses, see Paint (disambiguation). Paints redirects here. For the baseball team, see Chillicothe Paints. Dried green paint Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition which after application to a substrate in a thin layer is… …

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  • 14paint — paintable, adj. paintless, adj. /paynt/, n. 1. a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work… …

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  • 15Fresco —    A painting technique devised during antiquity to decorate the walls or ceilings of private and public buildings. It entails coating the pictorial surface with a layer of coarse lime plaster (arriccio) on which the intended scene is drawn using …

    Dictionary of Renaissance art

  • 16paint — Synonyms and related words: Zanzibar copal, adorn, air brush, anime, apply, apply paint, array, art paper, base, bay, bayard, bead, beautify, bedaub, bedeck, bedizen, begild, bejewel, beribbon, besmear, bespangle, blazon, bring to life, brush,… …

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  • 17fresco — Synonyms and related words: abstract, abstraction, altarpiece, apply paint, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, block print, brush on paint, calcimine, calcimining, coat, coating, collage, color, color print, complexion, copy, cover, covering,… …

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  • 18paint —    animation of a brush splashing paint from a can as it stirsPigment that is dispersed into a liquid, called a vehicle, that includes a binder to make it adhere both to itself and to the surface to which it is applied. Many can have a matte,… …

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  • 19fresco — fres·co || freskəʊ n. method of painting on the wet plaster of a wall or ceiling using watercolor paints v. paint a moist plastered wall or ceiling with watercolor paints …

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  • 20fresco — noun (C) a painting made on a wall by using watercolour paint on a surface of wet plaster 1 (1) compare mural …

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