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underpainting

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Definitions

  1. An initial layer of paint, often monochromatic, applied to a ground as a base for subsequent layers.

Word origin

From under- + painting.

Used in a sentence

  • He would start with a stenciled acrylic underpainting and finish by making marks with the chalk and charcoal shells.
  • At first they wouldn't believe him, but he gave them proof. X-ray the Adulteress, he told them, and you will find an underpainting. They did and found the underpainting van Meegeren had described.

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