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drybrush
[ drahy-bruhsh ]
noun
- 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.
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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