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Scumble :: Scumble (v. t.) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect..

Unpaint :: Unpaint (v. t.) To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting..

Rhyparography :: Rhyparography (n.) In ancient art, the painting of genre or still-life pictures..

Scumbling :: Scumbling (n.) A mode of obtaining a softened effect, in painting and drawing, by the application of a thin layer of opaque color to the surface of a painting, or part of the surface, which is too bright in color, or which requires harmonizing..

Predella :: Predella (n.) The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece..

Destemper :: Destemper (n.) A kind of painting. See Distemper.

Water Deck :: Water deck () A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.

Dark :: Dark (n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted..

Enamel :: Enamel (a.) Relating to the art of enameling; as, enamel painting..

Subjectivism :: Subjective (a.) Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer..

Copy :: Copy (n.) To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often with out, sometimes with off..

Stretching :: Stretcher (n.) The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.

Gradation :: Gradation (n.) A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing..

Grisaille :: Grisaille (n.) Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass.

Retouch :: Retouch (n.) A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like..

Sublittoral :: Sublition (n.) The act or process of laying the ground in a painting.

Altarpiece :: Altarpiece (n.) The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

Size :: Size (v. i.) A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc..

Depainting :: Depainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depain.

Tempera :: Tempera (n.) A mode or process of painting; distemper.

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