thick strokes
Wide brush marks
Thick strokes are broad, heavy lines made with a brush, pen, or other implement.
In calligraphy and typography, thick strokes contrast with thin strokes to create visual rhythm and elegance—many fonts vary stroke weight within individual letters.
In painting, thick strokes suggest boldness or texture: She applied the paint in thick strokes across the canvas.
The phrase can describe any emphatic, unsubtle approach: He painted the villain in thick strokes.
- boldCourageous and daring
- brushworkPainter's stroke method
- calligraphyOrnamental handwriting art
- brush penInk tool with pliable tip
- inkWriting fluid
ink wash · paint · house paint · heavy · heavy hand · sweeping · broad · lines · gestural · expressive · weight · pressure · viscous · impasto · charcoal · marker · felt tip · fat
- pen techniqueshatching, crosshatching, stippling, shading, outlining
- letteringlettering styles, letterforms, calligraphy, hand lettering, handwriting
- painting techniquesimpasto, glazing, dry brushing, drybrush, stippling
- scriptsalphabet, Latin alphabet, Roman alphabet, Greek alphabet, Hebrew alphabet