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sketching

  • present participle
    of sketch.
    sketch
    noun
    a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.

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Reports have painted a picture of a decidedly low-key existence for the actor on the island, with Carrey spending his time reading, writing, walking, painting, and sketching.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

At the Art Institute of Chicago, a survey of the Abstract Expressionist’s work demonstrates how central sketching was to his practice and how creatively he approached it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

In the 1930s and ’40s, three friends—all artists, one almost a generation older than the others—spent their summers here, sketching and painting the picturesque environs of America’s oldest continuously operating seaport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Partis was also sketching the heron as he watched.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

I spent some time in the beginning sketching out the history of the ANC and then explaining our positions on the primary issues that divided the organization from the government.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela