She turned to the wall and ran a hand over the dry plaster.

Nearly two tons of dry plaster was used in making wall repairs.

Others were painted on to a dry plaster surface.

The words seeming to stick to my tongue like lumps of dry plaster.

Fiber also provides some flexibility to a dried plaster.

Fresco secco is painting onto dry plaster, which does not last as long.

Additional work may be added a secco on top of the dry plaster, though this is generally less durable.

Bartlett painted directly on the dry plaster of the sanctuary's vertical walls.

Theodore like other contemporary iconographers are done in acrylics on dry plaster.

The interior work is usually painted secco, using tempera, onto dry plaster.

When the dry plaster powder is mixed with water, it re-forms into gypsum.

The frescoes are painted in acrylics on dry plaster.

Buon frescoes are difficult to create because of the deadline associated with the drying plaster.

She stood on an old tarpaulin spattered with tiny flecks of dried plaster.

In Ancient Egypt, for example, many of the wall paintings were done on dry plaster and are not true frescoes.

ĚIt smelled of fresh paint and drying plaster.

Very dry plaster, or other high-suction backgrounds should be dampened immediately before fixing the cove.

Painted in secco (whereby paint is applied to dry plaster), most date back to the early 13th century, with a few possibly much older.

The dry plaster alternative, fresco secco, is easier to handle but apparently has its own drawbacks, including less intense color.

Mathijsen used coarsely woven materials, usually linen, into which dry plaster of Paris had been rubbed thoroughly.

Instead the paint was applied to dried plaster, in what is called "fresco a secco" in Italian.

The Last Supper is decaying badly because Leonardo painted it on dry plaster.

In other words, Michelangelo did not work "a secco"; he did not come back later and add details onto the dry plaster.

His murals were generally executed in a large scale on dry plaster walls by a combination of freehand painting and stenciling.

Unwilling to work with the inflexible but proven technique of fresco painting, Leonardo painted directly onto the dry plaster.