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

“Art Nouveau, Chinese wash drawing, German woodcuts, American primitive paintings, the Viennese secession and cartoons of the ’30s were an endless source of inspiration,” he added.

From New York Times

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

And this exhibition showcases some of the thousands of rarely seen ink and wash drawings he left behind upon his death in 1885.

From Los Angeles Times

You can say, “I can talk about this in this form! It doesn’t need to be this high-contrast, commercial art. It can look like an 18th-century wash drawing. It can be anything you like!”

From The Guardian

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