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drybrush

American

[drahy-bruhsh] / ˈdraɪˌbrʌʃ /

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.

Etymology

Origin of drybrush

First recorded in 1910–15; dry + brush ¹

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

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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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