Usage Note
Malfirnis is a resin-based varnish mixed into oil paint to improve flow and transparency, or applied over a finished painting as protection. Masculine noun; distinct from Schlußfirnis (final varnish).
Examples
"Ein Tropfen Malfirnis verbesserte die Fließfähigkeit der Ölfarbe."
Natural Translation
A drop of painting varnish improved the flow of the oil paint.
Literal Translation
A drop of painting-varnish improved the flowability of the oil-paint.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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