<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> A glaze is a thin transparent or semi-transparent layer on a painting which modifies the appearance of the underlying paint layer . Glazes can change the chroma, value, hue and texture of a surface . Glazes consist of a great amount of binding medium in relation to a very small amount of pigment . Drying time will depend on the amount and type of paint medium used in the glaze . The medium, base, or vehicle is the mixture to which the dry pigment is added . Different media can increase or decrease the rate at which oil paints dry . </P> <P> Often, because a paint is too opaque, painters will add special media or a lot of medium to the paint to make them more transparent for the purposes of glazing . While these media are usually liquids, there are solid and semi-solid media used in the making of paints as well . For example, many classical oil painters have also been known to use ground glass and semi-solid resins to increase the translucency of their paint . </P>

Who is credited with popularizing the technique of glazing