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drybrush

[ drahy-bruhsh ]

noun

  1. a technique of drawing or painting in which a brush having a small quantity of pigment or medium is applied to or dragged across a surface.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of drybrush1

First recorded in 1910–15; dry + brush 1
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Example Sentences

The bulk of the show is pencil sketches and watercolors, grouped around a dozen or so finished images in drybrush and tempera.

For 15 years, from 1970 to 1985, Wyeth had labored in secret on an enormous collection of works: 246 in all, including sketches, studies, drawings, 32 watercolors, twelve drybrush paintings and five temperas.

Following the gestation from sketch to drybrush is like flipping through a family album of Atget X rays.

Realism is represented by Andrew Wyeth's A Day at the Fair, a drybrush watercolor of a Negro girl alone at home.

At a benefit auction in Los Angeles for the "Neighbors of Watts," Norton Simon, the millionaire art collector and philanthropist, plunked down a cool $23,000 for Ripening, a drybrush watercolor of two tomatoes on a weatherworn windowsill.

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