Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
glacis à l’huile
English translation:
transparent oil glaze or oil glaze
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Stéphanie Soudais
Jun 20, 2005 22:56
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French term
glacis à l’huile
French to English
Art/Literary
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Description of a work of art - a painting
Dear all,
my appartment is painted in glacis à l'ancienne but I don't know what glacis might be for a painting.
Grateful for suggestions.
Les fines couches superposées de glacis à l’huile créent une transparence particulière qui joue avec les reflets du support
my appartment is painted in glacis à l'ancienne but I don't know what glacis might be for a painting.
Grateful for suggestions.
Les fines couches superposées de glacis à l’huile créent une transparence particulière qui joue avec les reflets du support
Proposed translations
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| 5 +9 | oil glazing - or oil glaze depending on the sentence |
Ghyslaine LE NAGARD
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| 5 | oil-based glaze |
Deborah Mends
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Mar 3, 2011 13:03: Stéphanie Soudais changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/77909">Anna Maria Augustine (X)'s</a> old entry - "glacis à l’huile"" to ""Transparent oil glaze - or oil glaze depending on the sentence""
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French term (edited):
glacis � l�huile
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oil glazing - or oil glaze depending on the sentence
it is a technique used to give some transparency to the painting.
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Sisiutl
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Nick Lingris
: Here's a link for Anna: http://www.decoratingdirect.co.uk/viewprod/r/RATTOG/
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Deborah Mends
: A small further specification...I might say rather "oil-based" glaze, as opposed to a "water-based" glaze (in early techniques this could even be done with beer!)
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What could possibly be the base of an "oil glaze" ? Gin ? whisky ?
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Kate Hudson (X)
: As an amateur painter this is the right term for this technique
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Paul Hirsh
: transparent resin is mixed in with the oil-thinned paint to help it dry fast and give it gloss
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Comment: "Thank you. I put "medium" for the word "support" but I"m not sure it was correct. This was about an artist and works of art."
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French term (edited):
glacis � l�huile
oil-based glaze
;-D You got it! No, if the glaze is indeed oil-based it is quite likely a mix of turpentine, linseed oil (or another type of oil, but as linseed was and is still the cheapest, and if it has a somewhat yellowish look to it today, it is probably linseed) and pigment to make a layer of transparent color over a patina of some kind. The same thing is done on paintings, and then you wipe off the glaze where you want the lights to really shine through.
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Paul Hirsh
: Turpentine would make the glaze crack! A glaze medium of transparent resin is used to speed up the drying of the additional oil.
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