Sentence examples for applies thick from inspiring English sources

Roulin sees a "man of meager volume, standing and preoccupied, incomprehensible, who doesn't even know the names of these places and in lieu of the cadastral marks [used by land surveyors] applies thick yellows and perfunctory blues to a canvas of meager dimensions".

Every morning when he wakes up, Brad Firth applies thick swatches of red, black, and white paint to his face.

Billy hurries with the make-up, applying thick kohl to Knowles' eyelid.

We were privy to the queens getting ready, as they applied thick layers of makeup and hair-removal cream.

Lately he has also started doing all the painting himself and, with a brush, applying thick layers and stripes of enamel to the bare, uncrumpled metal.

Ms. Gallagher has altered each ad by applying thick yellow pieces of plasticine clay, replacing wigs on models with fanciful, sculptural headgear.

He applied thick layers of paint, charging his subjects which often included bulls, urban landscapes, taverns, and prostitutes with a garish energy.

He was said to be a heretic in the field of painting and an artist who, with his use of impasto (locally applied thick paint), painted with "dung".

An elderly woman named Dolly Snell sat cross-legged on the floor in front of a three-foot-square canvas, applying thick rondelles of yellow acrylic in patterns that resembled spinifex, a sharp-bladed desert grass.

The exhibition, "Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly," was inspired in part by something the eminently quotable James McNeill Whistler once said: "Paint should not be applied thick.

"Usually," he said, "people apply peanut butter on one slice of the bread and Nutella on the other slice, but I apply thick layers of Nutella to both slices of the bread".