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▪ I. scumble, n.|ˈskʌmb(ə)l|
[f. scumble v.]
A thin coat (of colour) put on by scumbling; a softened effect produced by scumbling (see scumble v. 1 and 2).
1834T. H. Lister Anne Grey iii, [The uncertainty as to] whether your drawing is..to be brought suddenly to a sharp edge, or a scumble, by the entrance of a visitor. 1859Gullick & Timbs Painting 230 After a time the scumble partially sinks into the colour over which it is laid. 1862Thornbury Turner I. 77 It is carefully and thinly painted with thin scumbles of semi-opaque colour. 1880Muckley Handbk. Painters 75 When the tint forming the scumble is nicely calculated, no doubt a more delicate and transparent grey will be the result, than when produced by solid painting.
transf.1884Harper's Mag. Sept. 528/2 A golden scumble of October haze.
▪ II. scumble, v.|ˈskʌmb(ə)l|
[? Frequentative f. scum v.; cf. quot. s.v. scumming ppl. a.]
1. a. trans. In Oil Painting. To soften or render less brilliant (the colours in a portion of a picture) by overlaying with a thin coat of opaque or semi-opaque colour; to spread or ‘drive’ (a colour) thinly over a portion of a picture in order to soften hard lines or blend the tints; to produce (an effect) by this process.
1798Trans. Soc. Arts XVI. 280 The artist then painted the lights with pure white..where the light was brightest..; and, where the demi-tints were afterwards to be, scumbling it thinner by degrees. 1830Cunningham Brit. Painters I. 234 Over that is scumbled thinly and smooth a warmer tint. 1866Redgrave Cent. Painters II. 112 The hills and distant bay are scumbled into a mighty haze. 1872C. King Sierra Nevada x. 212 I'll scumble in a sunset effect. 1882P. G. Hamerton Graphic Arts xxi. 232 If ground colours are to be scumbled over they ought not to be full of strong and deep brush-marks.
b. absol.
1868Tyrwhitt Handbk. Pict. Art ii. v. 336 note, To scumble is to use partly opaque colours and white, in the same way [as in glazing]. 1870Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Nov. 11 M. Legros has in no single place permitted himself to scumble or retouch.
2. In Pencil, Chalk, or Monochrome Drawing. (See quots.)
1815[implied in scumbling vbl. n. below]. 1854Fairholt Dict. Terms Art, Scumbling..is produced by lightly rubbing the blunt point of the chalk over the surface, or spreading the harder lines by the aid of the stump.
3. transf. of natural effects.
1905J. H. McCarthy Dryad 92 More frequent clouds now scumbled the sky. 1974V. Nabokov Look at Harlequins (1975) vi. i. 227 The summer tan..would scumble, I knew, the liver spots on my temples.
Hence ˈscumbled ppl. a., ˈscumbling vbl. n.
1815R. Brown Princ. Pract. Perspective 76 Scumbling is giving a kind of rough shadow to trees, grass, gravel-walks, &c. in a drawing when it is nearly finished. It is performed with a brush having some dark colour in it, and nearly dry. 1816Sir J. Reynolds Char. Painters of Italy 113 A..description of the effect of glazing or scumbling, such as was practised by Titian. 1849[see drive v. 12]. 1859Gullick & Timbs Painting 229 Scumbling..is used to modify certain portions of a picture which may require to be rendered cooler, greyer, and less definite. 1862Thornbury Turner II. 198 His light tints, the result of pearly scumblings, make his light pictures as luminous as his water-colour drawings. 1868Tyrwhitt Handbk. Pict. Art ii. v. 354 This system of covering the canvas with scumbled shade first and painting on the lights seems the best for a beginner. 1877‘Ouida’ Puck xxv, Fancying they have got ‘atmosphere’ in dabs of grey and yellow, and..‘sunset’ in scumbled lakes and ochres. 1967Listener 12 Jan. 48/3 A verb ‘to scumble’, which means to blur and soften the outlines. A great deal of our national life seems to me to be scumbled. 1977Times 19 Nov. 9/2 The confusion of the times..the scumbling of boundary lines. |