Definition of "impasto"

impasto

noun
countable and uncountable, plural impastos
1. (painting) The use of a thick-bodied paint to create peaks and crests that physically extend from the surface of a painting.
  Quotations
  He was thinking, ʽGot to get a subject where a man can weight the impasto in light. Paint thin against light. Got to remember that.ʼ
  1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 63
  […] all got scumbled together, eventually, by the knives of the seasons, to an impasto, feet thick, of unbelievable black topsoil in which anything could grow, not the least being bananas.
  1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, part 1: Beyond the Zero, page 5
verb
third-person singular simple present impastoes, present participle impastoing, simple past and past participle impastoed
1. (painting) To paint in thick-bodied paint; to paint in impasto style.
  Quotations
  "She looked tall to me, and slim, with delicate Semitic features, and a full mouth that she impastoed with red lipstick to play against her […] "
  1991, Joyce Nakamura, Contemporary Authors Autobiographical Series, Volume 14‎