Usage Note
Malmittel refers to a liquid added to paint to alter its consistency, drying time or sheen. Linseed oil, stand oil and damar varnish are classic Malmittel for oil painting; different recipes give very different surface qualities.
Examples
"Er verdünnte die Ölfarbe mit einem speziellen Malmittel, um sie fließfähiger zu machen."
Natural Translation
He thinned the oil paint with a special medium to make it more fluid.
Literal Translation
He thinned the oil-paint with a special painting-medium to make it more flow-capable.
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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