brush stroke
Artist's sweeping motion
A brush stroke is a single movement of a brush across a surface, especially in painting.
Each stroke deposits paint in a characteristic shape determined by the brush, pressure, and technique.
Brush strokes can be visible as individual marks—Van Gogh's bold brush strokes—or blended until imperceptible.
Figuratively, something done with broad brush strokes handles a subject in general terms rather than fine detail.
- paintColored coating substance
- oil paintingArt made with linseed-bound pigments
- canvasHeavy woven cloth
- fine artAesthetic visual creations
- daubApply crudely
swipe · mark · texture · bristle · pigment · sweep · gesture · flick · palette · oil · watercolor · impressionist · abstract expressionism · thick · heavy hand · thin · dry · wet
- strokesbackstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, crawl, freestyle
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- drum soundsbeat, boom, drumroll, hit, kick
- linesstraight line, line, dotted line, dashed line, solid line
- marksmark, blemish, blotch, seal of approval, exclamation mark
- digital graphicspixel, vector, pixel art, bitmap, raster