Sentences with phrase «translucent nature of my paint»

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The acrylic paint dries almost as fast as the wax paint cools, and by using combinations of no gel, some gel or a lot of gel — mostly semigloss — with various paints that are by nature opaque or semi-transparent, I can create some of the same play of opaque, translucent and transparent hues that I do with wax, with something of the same built - up texture.

Translucent white paint creates a ghostly shade, alluding to the subject's illness, while water - saturated colors gives the portrait an unreal transparency, suggesting the fugitive nature of life.