graining
- n a texture like that of wood
- v thoroughly work in
- v paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- v form into grains
- v become granular
- So little in art is new: what Mantegna was doing with this play of illusion was not so far from the wood graining and stencils in Georges Braque's Cubist paintings more than 400 .
- His technique, which he calls intaglio, is really a combination of many methodsengraving, etching with acid, gouging, graining with sand.
- Moreover, Braque had been a house painter's apprentice and thoroughly understood the techniques of wood graining and false-finishing.