Sentence examples for layer of varnish from inspiring English sources

The resulting unadorned surfaces were actually finished with a transparent, sometimes tinted layer of varnish.

"It was under a layer of varnish which had been applied in the 1970s – it was basically brown".

He will certainly need more than a thin layer of varnish to weather the political blows ahead.

Partly because both bodies of work are coated with a layer of varnish, they have the look of yellowing artifacts and feel oddly unmoored in time.

Once completely dry, give the beads a coat or two of paint, and finish with a layer of varnish to seal.

Standing before one that was all but done, he suggested that she add a layer of varnish to it, to bring out the colors and give it a classical sheen.

He stared at the same hardwood floor with its many more layers of varnish.

The layers of varnish and toning applied to "Madonna and Child" in the early 1920s became darker and duller over time.

She explained that conservators are refining a plan to remove layers of varnish for the painting's first surface-cleaning in decades.

"It was so dark, under layers of varnish and retouches which completely altered it," said Irina Artemieva, curator of Venetian paintings at the Hermitage.

A proper northern brew so tannic it could strip three layers of varnish from a coffee table, never mind sluice all that cream from your gaping maw.