Sekirov Dictionary

impasto

noun 1
verb 1
forms 4

noun1

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The use of a thick-bodied paint to create peaks and crests that physically extend from the surface of a painting.
- He was thinking, ʽGot to get a subject where a man can weight the impasto in light. Paint thin against light. Got to remember that.ʼ — 1938

verb1

•
To paint in thick-bodied paint; to paint in impasto style.
- "She looked tall to me, and slim, with delicate Semitic features, and a full mouth that she impastoed with red lipstick to play against her […]" — 1991

forms

impastoed · impastoing · impastoes · impastos

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