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- noun Plural form of
underpainting .
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Examples
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Under each "finished" painting there may exist up to six fully completed paintings, and up to three full underpaintings.
Russ Wellen: This Hawk Flies High, But Alights on Terra Firma 2008
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Today, while I was driving home through the mountains on it's winding and twisting roads I decided that these mushroom painings need oil over their acrylic underpaintings.
madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2005
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At the same time, I had put some underpaintings and broad strokes on some new 4 x 4″ canvases.
WordPress.com News 2009
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At the same time, I had put some underpaintings and broad strokes on some new 4 x 4″ canvases.
WordPress.com News 2009
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Acrylic underpaintings for two new Obama unicorn paintings, in progress -
faithmouse 2009
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This work by contrast reads often as underpaintings, lacking the material engagement of Doig's previous efforts or of Bonnard's Met show.
unknown title 2009
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This work by contrast reads often as underpaintings, lacking the material engagement of Doig's previous efforts or of Bonnard's Met show.
unknown title 2009
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This work by contrast reads often as underpaintings, lacking the material engagement of Doig's previous efforts or of Bonnard's Met show.
unknown title 2009
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