Sentence examples for thin wash from inspiring English sources

He applied a thin wash of hair dye over the surface, and started another layer.

The noodles were coated in a thin wash of oil and roasted tomato juice, the tomatoes shriveled and discreet.

Mark Iacono, the man behind Lucali, gets an incredibly crisp crust out of his oven, and he tops it with a thin wash of sauce made from his grandmother's "secret" recipe.

The ground here is thick with texture -- those buildings in the distance are done in a thin wash of paint, and there are areas where paint is thickly applied, then scraped off.

He could use paint as thickly and brightly as Gauguin, or brush it as a thin wash over deep, heavy sketches in pit charcoal.With ceaseless curiosity, he borrowed from the past.

Lucali (718) 858-4086; 575 Henry Street (Carroll Street); $$2525 and Under: 11/29/06 Mark Iacono, the man behind Lucali, gets an incredibly crisp crust out of his oven, and he tops it with a thin wash of sauce made from his grandmother's "secret" recipe.

Her wan, anxious, big-eyed subjects are drawn in a weak pencil line and colored in thin washes.

Bacon also swiped thin washes of purple, black and white over what looks like raw canvas to paint his first pope, fussing the gaping mouth, creepily.

Menon's preferred medium was oil on masonite, which she applied by using a series of translucent colours and thin washes.

Thin washes of color are laid on like glazes, accreting into blocks, bands, and stripes; dry pigments vivify what might otherwise be unremarkable patterns.

Applying thin washes to large sheets of paper and, for the first time in a decade, to canvas, she creates broad areas of luminous color often accented by horizontal stripes, bands or blocks that imply landscape.