transparent paint

Gradually he turned to mathematics and discovered transparent paint.

There are provocative and startling contrasts between passages of thin, transparent paint and thick impasto, filled with striatures left by the palette knife."

Light penetrates the transparent paint layers, striking the pure-white gesso panels (made of chalk and glue) and reflecting back at the viewer, creating a luminous effect.

The SL2H-MAH is made of mahogany (neck and body "wings"), with a transparent paint finish on both body and headstock.

In these pieces, Hambleton used transparent paint on a metallic leaf background in order to reflect light and color to and from the viewer, who unwittingly becomes part of the visual effect.

The other method by which coloured glass blocks are achieved is to inject a coloured material, dye or transparent paint into the hollow centre of the blocks to form a permanent coating.

That's what Donald Southern and Cliff Schorr call their creation, an interior wall covering that is actually theatrical muslin to which up to 20 layers of transparent paint have been applied by hand.

Some paintings even have the Marlboro lettering of the advertisement showing through a layer of transparent paint, which presents to the viewer the original inspiration behind the work, together with the artist's dramatic alteration and personal expression.