Sentence examples for dabs of paint from inspiring English sources
The 19th-century painter Vincent van Gogh made notable use of impastos, building up and defining the forms in his paintings with thick, nervous dabs of paint.
Bobby Hair has dabs of paint on his face.
The individual dibs and dabs of paint go in so many different directions.
He's got 500,000 dabs of paint in that thing, and each one is a decision.
The lines and dots became large penciled grids, exactingly and laboriously handcrafted, overlaid with dabs of paint or gold leaf.By 1964, she simplified further.
The soft, all-over, evenly unassertive dabs of paint, with which the whole image is composed, equate the figure and the background.
Then a taxi passes, and another face looks out, someone newly arrived back in town, someone who creates a far different city than the man in the long navy blue coat and sees him, if he notices me at all, as anonymous, fleeting, a figure inside a frame, a dab of paint on the vast, spectacular canvas.
The people remaining in their homeland -- elderly parents too frail or too old to begin anew, women, children, siblings not ready yet to make the trip or too poor to buy passage -- would hold tight to their end as the faces grew smaller and smaller until they were a blur in the crowd, a tiny dab of paint on a canvas, sky above, sea below.
Scouts were defined as bees that visited at least two new jars, and when they did, the students placed a dab of paint on each bee's thorax indicating which jar it had visited.
If your Vans are stained with paint, try using a dab of paint thinner.
