| The sense of tragedy, however, was oddly counteracted by the sweet colors that had been dripped and scumbled to cover the figures from head to bristle. |
| Her variegated surfaces may be opaque or layered as transparent washes, glazed or scraped, scumbled, wiped down or sanded. |
| In her previous show at this gallery, Yeardley Leonard exhibited a number of large horizontal paintings divided by lateral, multicolored bands of scumbled paint. |
| In another large work, soft-edged horizontal lines suggest a stack of stormy sunsets, with orange, rose and yellow scumbled between brown or black, in ominous bands. |
| On the scumbled, thickly painted surface of Voice III is the image of a woman, mouth open as if to sing or to accept a drink. |
| Uncertainty of finish dominates all of her larger works, which feature drawn forms that have been rubbed out or partially scumbled over. |
