With their crusty, chalky, busily painterly surfaces, the paintings have an impressively complicated theatricality.

The usual clutch is 3 to 5 eggs which are bluish green and with a chalky surface.

The chalky surface extended into the dark gray interior, all the way through the core.

The spicules in the clay helped strengthen the pottery, and created a "chalky" surface, soft enough to be scratched with a fingernail.

If blisters or peelings reveal sound paint underneath, the problem may be that new paint was applied to a dirty, chalky or glossy surface.

This seals the chalky surface and provides a solid foundation for the paint.

Most curious of all was the chalky surface.

This means they will usually bond better over mildly dusty, chalky or powdery surfaces.

As Truth watched, the girl went so pale that her sluttish makeup seemed to lie on the surface of her skin, chalky and inert.

Its suggestion of primal antagonisms is reinforced by the chalky surface, which gives it the character of an ancient wall painting.