Sentence examples for painting medium from inspiring English sources

Encaustic is a wax-based painting medium characterized by luminous color and rich surface.

On the other hand, central Italian painters began to adopt the oil painting medium soon after the Portinari Altarpiece was brought to Florence in 1476.

In the mid-1940s he learned from Jacques Maroger, a painter and art restorer who had been a technical director at the Louvre's laboratory, how to make an old master-style painting medium; the base ingredient was white lead.

Despite the enormous variety seen in these movements, most of them are characteristically modern in their investigation of the potentials inherent within the painting medium itself for expressing a spiritual response to the changed conditions of life in the 20th century and beyond.

The high solubility of this specific gum makes it particularly suitable as a painting medium.

However, this result is surprising as the traditional Chinese (and East Asian) painting medium is animal glue.

Turpentine and mineral spirits (paint thinner), for example, are used in oil painting mediums, for thinning, and for cleaning brushes.

It was also quickly replaced in water-based painting mediums.

Arguably the most advanced option of the three painting mediums, oil paints are slow-drying and thick, they offer dozens of specialized techniques.

Pinakes are paintings on board, executed with pigments fixed by an organic paint medium.

The generalized presence of these pigments in Roman wall paintings suggests that they could have been fixed by means of an organic paint medium.