Sentence examples for on a dry plaster from inspiring English sources

He daringly painted his "Last Supper" on a dry plaster wall, not the customary egg tempura on wet plaster.

(Leonardo used an experimental tempera mixture on dry plaster that proved disastrously fragile).

Whereas painting on dry plaster walls or screens is an ancient art in China, more common formats in the past millennium have been the vertical hanging scroll, perhaps derived from the Buddhist devotional banner, and the horizontal hand scroll, which may be of any length up to about 15 metres (50 feet).

This can be set on a plaster slab to dry out a bit, and then reused.

In other words, Michelangelo did not work "a secco"; he did not come back later and add details onto the dry plaster.

(He chose to paint the life-size scene using tempera with dry plaster, not wet plaster).

Handle the dry plaster moulding carefully to prevent chipping.

You can use dry plaster, clean concrete, canvas or denim.

Collect on a dry day.

The painting in your house is almost certainly not a fresco, which is an elaborate technique of painting on fresh lime plaster that has rarely been practiced in the U.S. The painting is, more properly, a wall painting (an image created on a dry wall with a painting medium that may be oil, tempera, acrylic, etc).

In fresco secco ("dry"), the artist applies paints to already dried plaster.