colored plaster

In Jericho they were anointed with white or colored plaster.

The delicately colored plaster block illustrations are unusual and appealing.

Aisles are carpeted and the pink-tinted peach colored plaster walls maintain their original color scheme.

Jefferson is depicted as half-smiling and thoughtful in this terra-cotta colored plaster that differs from the other chalk-white versions.

In counterpoint to metallic sheen, they selectively deployed a colored plaster, applied heavily enough to masquerade as concrete.

The paintings on these walls were older, the colors fainter, and here and there was damage where the colored plaster had flaked and fallen away.

The temple here bears traces of glyphs and frescoes above its door and remnants of richly colored plaster inside.

They chose to use colored plaster in tones of terra cotta and oxidized green for the walls, and aluminum rather than painted baseboards.

For a series of Donald Judd-style "caves," the artist installed colored plaster stalagmites and stalactites between plywood boards.

Both methods employ an outer finish of rough lime plaster detailed with bands of smooth colored plaster, characteristic of northern Mexico.

- Rizzoli publishes "Santa Fe Style," fueling a run on striped rugs, buckskins and bad, pepto-dismal colored plaster jobs.

Buildings in the Plaça del Pi show off the sgrafitto technique of scraping designs in colored plaster, imported from Italy in the early 1700s.

Roman frescoes were done by the artist painting the artwork on the still damp plaster of the wall, so that the painting is part of the wall, actually colored plaster.

Wang Du, a Chinese-born artist who lives and works in Paris, had a sculptural piece "Flea Market - Sale of Bargain Information," consisting of 11 colored plaster sculptures from 1999.

Then there is Hermann Finsterlin's Study for a House of Sociability (around 1920), a vividly colored plaster model of a biomorphic house whose form Mr. Finsterlin compared to rocks smoothed by glaciers.

Broad spaces of background are now exposed by removing the finishing coat, thus revealing the colored plaster beneath, and following this the outlines of the rest of the design are scratched with an iron knife through the outer skimming to the underlying tinted surface.

Dr. Miescher's urge to carve is rooted in her childhood in the Engadine, a rural, mountainous area in the southeast corner of Switzerland where most houses are decorated with sgraffito, patterns scratched into the colored plaster facades of the stucco houses.

The home is as fascinating for what it is - three asymmetrical, boldly colored plaster blocks rising from the rocky landscape as if the gods had willed shelter - as for what it lacks, almost all creature comforts: television, VCR, pool, telephone, proximity to a multiplex.