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n. - The application of very thin coat of color over the surface of a picture.

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  • Could one use the wax as a glaze then scumble oil paint over it?
  • If it's a transparentized scumble or glaze layer, it sure has lost a lot of opacity.
  • Now scumble this with a big brush equally over the whole canvas (or whatever you are making your study on).
  • She chose “The Last Lunar Baedekar” by Mina Loy, to scumble and work over to create her own startling and original poems.
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