Modifies a noun

• abstraction: But spontaneous mark making is Bowen's strength and suggests a serious study of post-war painterly abstraction.

• composition: His images locate moments of painterly composition or sculptural form in sites of absent labor.

• style: David used Terragen renders for the basis of the final images, which are considerably reworked in a more painterly style.

• quality: Painting the edges with looser strokes will add to the painterly qualities.

• technique: The realism conveyed through these paintings does not refer simply to Meyer's painterly technique.

• effect: He teaches the animator how to add painterly effects to their work, whether for video, TV, or the Web.

Modifying Another Word

• very: I like the contradiction between the craft of working with metal, and the very painterly image which I aim to achieve on paper.

• almost: His surfaces might be worked to display an almost painterly plane that suggests refracted light, with a remarkable range of color.