Sentence examples for practice of painting from inspiring English sources

This refers to Dominican bus drivers' practice of painting their front bumpers in beautiful decorator colors.

From the late sixties through the early nineties, Leiter adopted the practice of painting over his own photographs of nude figures.

Plein-air painting, in its strictest sense, the practice of painting landscape pictures out-of-doors; more loosely, the achievement of an intense impression of the open air (French: plein air) in a landscape painting.

He is credited with having introduced the practice of painting with pigments that had been mixed with oil and flexible resins on canvas, which resulted in a luminous, jewel-like effect.

The Impressionists also adopted Boudin's practice of painting entirely out-of-doors while looking at the actual scene, instead of finishing up a painting from sketches in the studio, as was the conventional practice.

In his portraits of the sultry beauties of the Restoration court, Charles II's court painter Peter Lely followed Van Dyck's practice of painting women in loose undress, though without Van Dyck's allegorical dimension.

His initial inspiration came from the practice of repeatedly painting the same portrait.

I am an artist, and I support my family by painting reproductions of the work of more famous artists, a common practice in the tradition of painting.

In this spirit, his innovations included the contradictory practices of painting flatness-inducing letters and words, and depth-creating trompe l'oeil nails and other details (with shadows) that so confound Cubist space.

Though it's an easy way of painting faces, it still takes a bit of practice to get right.

The snow we had in London made me realise I don't have enough of the appropriate clothing at all – I've been doing a few practice runs of painting in extreme cold in a huge heavy duty refrigerator.