pastose

Adjective

pastose

1. Charged with paint or colour, especially if impastoed.
   • Christ's gesturing but rather shapeless hand is painted thinly in brown, wet-in-wet over the more pastose light paint of the architecture. The child's head is summarily indicated in thin brownish paint, with a pinkish touch to indicate[…]2013 December 12, Ernst van de Wetering, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings V: The Small-Scale History Paintings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 601
   • But in the (mainly light) passages executed in pastose paint they are much more primitive in quality and cruder in execution than one would expect of Rembrandt. Compare the two paintings, for example, with the equally small Abraham and[…]2014 November 11, Ernst van de Wetering, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI: Rembrandt’s Paintings Revisited - A Complete Survey, Springer, →ISBN, page 315
2. (etc) Broad, and produced by light pressure, as if with a paintbrush.
   • Pastose writing [:] Literally, the word means “full of paint” and indicates a thick line of writing softly applied as if by a brush. It refers to simulated heavy pressure through the use of a broad nib lightly used.1996 03, Chris Morgan, Handwriting Analysis: An Introduction to the Science of Graphology, Book Sales, →ISBN
   • Pastose writing is produced by those who are physically oriented and very much in tune with their senses. ... The scent of a rose might drive a pastose writer wild, or the sound of the birds singing early in the morning.2007 January 2, Sheila Lowe, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis, 2nd Edition: Discover The Hidden Messages in the Words People Write, Penguin, →ISBN, page 131