What is IMPASTO Technique in Enameling?

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    February 26, 2010 11:25 AM EST
    The first question I asked myself when I looked at Marilyn Tendrich's Impasto Rose.
    According to Bill Helwig in his article "Impasto- A New Technique or The Characteristics of Glass in Use" Glass on Metal Magazine, Volume 3, No.2. April l984.
         
    The term impasto has been borrowed from the Italian term - inology 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 image...