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Rubbing out, scraping away, scumbling, glazing, trickling, thinning, he altered the picture according to his idiosyncratic logic.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021

Delvin and his kind were merely scumbling through it.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2016

Delvin and his kind were merely scumbling through it.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2016

The scumbling is incredibly difficult to copy, the different colours peeping through the layers – nightmare.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2013

This is called scumbling, and may be considered under the head of solid painting, as it is always done with body, and never with transparent, color.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh




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