brush work
Artist's stroke style
Brush work is the technique or style of applying paint with a brush.
Art critics and painters discuss brush work when analyzing how an artist handles the medium—whether the strokes are visible or blended, bold or delicate, thick or thin.
Van Gogh's expressive brush work is immediately recognizable.
The term appears most often in discussions of painting but extends to any brush-applied medium.
- strokesGentle touches, swimming styles
- bold strokesDramatic, decisive actions
- canvasHeavy woven cloth
- textureSurface tactile quality
- paintColored coating substance
paint application · bristles · technique · daubing · palette · oils · oil painting · acrylics · layering · blending · gestural · expressive · fine art · artist · easel · pigment · sweeping · delicate
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
- digital artdigital art, render, 3D modeling, digital illustration, graphic design
- ink artIndia ink, pen and ink, calligraphy, cross-hatching, sumi-e
- caricaturecaricature art, caricatures, caricaturist, caricaturists, caricature artists
- Chinese writinghanzi, characters, character, radical, radicals
- fresco techniquesgiornata, arriccio, wet plaster, pouncing, lime wash
brush workpencil marks
Lines from lead writing
knife work · finger painting · stippling · scratching · sgraffito
brush workspray painting
Applying finish via aerosol
drip painting · screen printing · stenciling · airbrushing · digital painting
brush worksmooth finish
Surface without texture
hard-edge painting · mechanical precision · flat color · polished surface · photorealism
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