After 1800, Bauer largely abandoned the opaque painting technique he had used for the Flora Graeca paintings.
(Cruel as it may sound, the researchers used an opaque paint to cover ants' eyes).
In the negative engraving or scribing process, guide copy is printed on several sheets of plastic coated with an opaque paint, usually yellow.
He was keenly aware of the optical effects of colour, and he created translucent effects by applying thin glazes over these ground layers or over the opaque paint layers defining his forms.
The conclave to elect a successor to Pope Paul will begin Aug. 25, when the entrances to the Vatican quarters of the cardinals will be bricked shut, the windows covered with opaque paint and the deliberations held in extraordinary secrecy.
The transition to precipitation can be seen in the way leaves blow across the pages, how the thickly applied opaque paint breaks up into white and blue swirls, and how the typeface itself seems to shake.
The cochineal pigment was easily ground in linseed oil which resulted in a very dark red, opaque paint.
In a fashion very similar to that used with high magnification optical microscopes, the laminographic technique allows to obtain detailed morphological images at any depth in an (optically opaque) paint layer stack [31, 32].
But, in applied visual art, I tend to use acrylic (plastic) paints in layers, with mediums that make opaque paint transparent.
Clouds can be made with opaque white over the dry transparent or opaque paint.
