drybrush
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of drybrush
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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.
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He has sketched countless pencil studies of tiny seed pods as fragilely faceted as snowflakes, made exquisite drybrush watercolors* of bees' honeycombs in winter.
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Realism is represented by Andrew Wyeth's A Day at the Fair, a drybrush watercolor of a Negro girl alone at home.
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Following the gestation from sketch to drybrush is like flipping through a family album of Atget X rays.
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The bulk of the show is pencil sketches and watercolors, grouped around a dozen or so finished images in drybrush and tempera.
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