He is normally the scourge of art restoration projects, particularly attempts to strip old varnish, believing that precious original detail added by the artists, in overpainting or coloured glazes, is usually lost in the process. ❋ Unknown (2010)
You are well known for painting and overpainting over a long period before something is completed, but there seems a greater simplicity in the new work. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They resemble screenprints, but actually each color is hand-painted separately with no overpainting at all. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Black ironwork, rusty in spots, with wooden slats to sit on, uneven from years of sloppy overpainting. ❋ Jeffery Deaver (2010)
Tuesday night I slept again on the floor in the sleeping bag and dreamed of colours, and early on Wednesday, as soon as it was light, began overpainting flesh onto the blue bones, working from light areas to dark, giving her strength and brain but not a peach-skin luminous beauty. ❋ Josh Spilker (2010)
The grey overpainting brings the viewer to the "now" which glimmers with fl ecks of the colorful past shown in the underpainting. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Some overpainting was removed, in particular, extra hair. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Cobbe, states that the overpainting was most likely shortly after it was originally painted as one of the several copies from the early 17th C also has the overpainted hair. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I'm not championing Sargent's direct painting method over any other approach; say, a more procedural technique like developing a refined underdrawing, then underpainting in dead color, then overpainting and glazing -- the sort of method you are known to use -- I'm just pointing out a dividing line exists between the two different ways to paint. ❋ James Gurney (2009)
There is at least one factual inaccuracy in this article: Lily Delissa Joseph did not destroy the magnificent group family portrait of the Solomons, "A Jewish Family", although she had wrecked it with overpainting. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Watkins lovingly pans across the surfaces of Munch's paintings, lingering on the scratched-out areas and dense layers of overpainting that indicate Munch's obsessive, often violent process of creation. ❋ Ed Howard (2008)
There is considerable overpainting at the left edge, perhaps due to a formulation of Prussian blue that was not light-fast or to a color change caused by the mixture of Prussian blue with lead white. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I oiled up the sky with Liquin to make it more receptive to overpainting. ❋ James Gurney (2008)
Some of the paintings had splashes of color peeking through - yellow orbs painted between the photocopies and the black overpainting in a pair of large canvases; colored photocopies peeking through on another one. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“I could do more, but it would just be overpainting and it would get mucked up and ruined.” ❋ Elizabeth Hickey (2007)
Gradually throughout the spring, more and more of the original painting emerged from test areas that had been cleaned to determine if the original painting had surviverd at all; it was discovered to be pretty much intact under all that calcium overpainting. ❋ Will (2007)
