Could one use the wax as a glaze then scumble oil paint over it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Tech: Waxers] Reference

If it's a transparentized scumble or glaze layer, it sure has lost a lot of opacity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak Blues] Reference

Now scumble this with a big brush equally over the whole canvas (or whatever you are making your study on).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Practice and Science of Drawing] Reference

She chose “The Last Lunar Baedekar” by Mina Loy, to scumble and work over to create her own startling and original poems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

From 18 inches away the scumble looks so painterly as to feel too sloppy... from 10 feet away, the effect is astonishingly lifelike, present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scumbling] Reference

Merriam-Webster defines “scumble” as partly “to make as color or a painting less brilliant by covering with a thin coat of opaque or semiopaque color.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

When I did comics I was always fighting the detail issue; when to scumble in a background, when to draw it out in detail, and when to just leave it out entirely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of Sacrifices] Reference

Where the form turns more to the light in the brightly illuminated halftones, you can scumble a light tone overall, saving your strongest touches of pure white for the highlights and accents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

I should advise you to let it dry, and then scumble a middle tone right over the whole thing, as you did at first, which will show the old work through, and you can then correct your drawing and proceed to paint the lights and shadows as before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Practice and Science of Drawing] Reference

Where conditions were right (neither too much nor too little sun, for instance up near the house itself) a scumble of colors occurred in Spring, attracting swarms of bees and butterflies — among these: Silver-spotted Skippers (Epargyreus clarus clarus) and American Coppers (Lycaena phlaes americana) — in abundance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The light that draws the flower] Reference

They learn to scumble - to produce short choppy brushstrokes.    From Wordnik.com.  [RVABlogs]

But his technique of painting in scumble seemed ideal for a surface treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference

This is not a black-and-white issue -- one can apply watercolor thickly enough to render it opaque, or scumble a bodycolor lightly enough to make it slightly transparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Artist] Reference

A thin, off-white scumble of paint over the brown shadow of the girl's neck defines the pearl, and is painted more opaquely at the bottom where the pearl reflects the white collar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public marks] Reference

He would scrape and scumble, brighten and deaden with oils and varnishes; he would dodge and manipulate till his picture, after a given time spent in a damp cellar, would emerge as a genuine old master.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences] Reference

Whether our landscapists glaze and scumble with the tonalists, or use some modification of the impressionist hatching, it is for the sake of color; and even our most forthright and dashing wielders of the big brush often achieve a surprising power of resonant coloring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects] Reference

I’ll scumble in a sunset effect, lighting up the dust, and striking across the backs of team and driver, and I’ll paint a come-up-there-d’n-you look on the old teamster’s face, and the mules will be just a-humping their little selves and laying down to work like they’d expire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cut-off Copples’s] Reference

Clear & precise, bravo James to make the instructions perfect, what about a definition of a scumble?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scumbling the Lights] Reference

4. Using a bristle brush, scumble the white paint only in the areas of the form that are touched by light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

He rested with a weight I scarce even felt -- such easy terms he made, without scruple, for both of us -- on the cheerful innocence of my barbarism; and though our mornings were short and subject, I think, to quite drowsy lapses and other honest aridities, we did scumble together, I make out, by the aid of the collected extracts from the truly and academically great which formed his sole resource and which he had, in a small portable and pocketed library rather greasily preserved, some patch of picture of a saving as distinguished from a losing classicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Small Boy and Others] Reference

"scumble" and "stipple" or "glaze" one colour over another to get.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference