Marilyn Tendrich,

"My life is like the Summer Rose"

 

IMPASTO - (Italian) terminology for a painting technique meaning a thick application of pigments to a canvas or panel, although in this enameling technique it is not the use of a thick enamel paste, rather the application of wet enamel with the appearance of having been pasted, built up in surfaces of low relief as dictated by the design or image.......

(Bill Helwig, Glass on Metal, Vol. 3, No. 2, April l984)