Sentence examples for dab paint from inspiring English sources

Fill a cotton ball with baby oil and dab paint areas on skin.

Just dab paint over any blemishes, taking care not to get paint on your plate.

Dab paint into little clusters to form galaxies.

Cutting out shapes from an old sponge and dabbing paint over the surface of the egg is much easier and creates a nice mottled look.

Chris Oh and Agata Bebecka, the so-called "finishers," dabbed paint onto a nearly finished picture, patting each stroke with an index finger to create a lustrous sheen.

That is, we see his hand on and in it, dabbing paint on it, and beyond it his own image; only the mirror plane, visible thanks to those dabs, is in sharp focus.

The artists assisting her have been practicing the unusual technique she developed, which involves dabbing paint on a canvas in layers with round masonry brushes — each about the size of an old 45 r.p.m. record.

For two weeks, Mr. Wyeth moved between a ramshackle hotel and Dr. Taussig's summer retreat, taking long walks with her on the beach, eating sandwiches in her kitchen and dabbing paint on the canvas in her sitting room until he left Cotuit with the finished product.

Standing before an easel on a Van Nuys sidewalk, Alex Schaefer dabbed paint onto a canvas.

Dip a stiff brush in the same puddle you used to paint the mountains and hold it horizontally like a chisel, dabbing paint here and there across the horizon.

(Calvin Tompkins wrote about the painting in a profile of Mehretu for the magazine). We watch Mehretu and her assistants patiently dab fresh paint on top of existing layers, peel away masking tape and brown paper from finished sections, and apply what looks like an industrial blow dryer to the canvas, often mounting a scissor lift to do so.