By scumbling is meant rubbing the colour into the canvas, working the brush from side to side rapidly, and laying just the #thinnest solid tone# that will cover the surface.
This is not to be attained by painting the picture regardless of color relations, and then glazing or scumbling some color all over the whole.
Too much scumbling will make a picture vague and soft, and after a scumble it is best to paint into it with firm color to avoid this.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scumbling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
