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

When I got back to billets the next time I determined to make a finished wash drawing of the scene, and send it to some paper or other in England.

From Bullets & Billets by Bairnsfather, Bruce