wash drawing

American  

noun

1. a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.

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wash drawing British  

noun

1. a pen-and-ink drawing that has been lightly brushed over with water to soften the lines

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Example Sentences

It is a sumi-e image, an ink wash drawing on silk, in which a few, deft, calligraphic strokes capture a giant sequoia battered by wind and precipitation, perhaps rain, or snow.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2020

The 1990 wash drawing “In the Temple of My Familiar” is both a tribute to the American writer Alice Walker and a reminder that uli was, and is, a female tradition.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2013

Both produced gridded works on paper, but while his look like engineering designs, hers have an exquisite sensuality, as in a 1966 wash drawing of rows of concentric circles in delicate shades of gray.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2011

A large wash drawing of a colonial country estate and a sheaf of complementary sketches won the prize for Richard Coolidge Murdock, Cornell graduate, son of Architect Harris Hunnewell Murdock of Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let us now look at two examples of wash drawing by process, lent by the proprietors of Black and White.

From The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Blackburn, Henry