brushworknoun [ U ]
uk/ˈbrʌʃ.wɜːk/us/ˈbrʌʃ.wɝːk/the particular style that an artist has of putting paint onto the painting with a brush
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Painting, drawing & printing
- airbrush
- brushstroke
- chiaroscuro
- colour
- colour sth in
- composition
- draft
- engraving
- etching
- foreshorten
- freehand
- ink
- rough
- rule
- shade sth in
- stencil
- stipple
- tempera
- touch sth in
- wash
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Examples from literature
- It follows, among other things, that in Egypt, as in China and Japan, literary style and mere penmanship and brushwork are to be conceived as inseparable.
- The entire painting must have his brushwork.