Van Eyck used the technique of applying layer after layer of thin translucent glazes to create a painting with an intensity of both tone and colour.

In fact, he paints from his imagination in thin glazes and muted colors.

Painted over the top of etchings, Indian-ink drawings and other line art, it enables the application of colours by tinting with thin glazes of oil paint.

This gives the paints a thicker, stronger consistency, allowing him to employ a very wide range of brush strokes in a work from thin strongly coloured glazes to heavy impastos.

Notable were thinner glazes, and colourless glazes for buncheong or stoneware.

The thin glazes he painstakingly applied to his canvases created a glassy, reflective sheen that cannot be reproduced in photographs.

The painting is in tempera, the ground paint being mixed with egg white and laid in thin glazes.

Though seemingly executed in thin glazes of oil color, the picture is actually done in a mixture of graphite and color pencil.

Darida's sculptures use the transparency of acrylic to create layers of thin glazes, echoing the technique that he applies in his paintings.

This layer must be allowed to dry thoroughly before the oil colour is applied in thin glazes.