Pastose

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Charged with paint or colour, especially if impastoed.

    "Christ's gesturing but rather shapeless hand is painted thinly in brown, wet-in-wet over the more pastose light paint of the architecture. The child's head is summarily indicated in thin brownish paint, with a pinkish touch to indicate[…]"

  2. 2
    Broad, and produced by light pressure, as if with a paintbrush.

    "Pastose writing [:] Literally, the word means “full of paint” and indicates a thick line of writing softly applied as if by a brush. It refers to simulated heavy pressure through the use of a broad nib lightly used."

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