What is "brushstroke"

Usage examples of "brushstroke".

Unlike the current style, in which the painter took pains to remove any trace of brushstroke from the painting, giving it a smooth glossy coat, Eleyna made her brushwork part of the texture of the painting.

Though I no longer approached the work with the passion I had formerly brought to it, every brushstroke seemed a contrivance of passion, to be the product of an emotion that continued to act through me despite the fact that I had forgotten how to feel it.

Reubens, but I think you might not have caught the proper brushstroke for a Turner.

FOUR The first gray of dawn was a long brushstroke on the eastern horizon.

Friedrich was a cold piece of work to wake up to, day after day, every brushstroke just so, making the ice look like a bunch of stacked bricks.

It alighted on the dead limb of a white oak hanging over the water, where it immediately assumed the pose of a Japanese painting: a single vivid brushstroke, stark against the gold and orange of the sky.

This interplay of hues begins with the appearance of a tenuous brushstroke of lavender on the horizon.

In time, this lavender brushstroke starts to expand until it covers the visible horizon, like advancing storm clouds.

That he, who never subscribed to the perversities which condemned his faith, was tarred with the same brushstroke is a tragedy.

Her shoulders and her bare arms gleamed with an extraordinary splendour, and when she advanced her head into the light he saw the admirable contour of the face, the straight fine nose with delicate nostrils, the exquisite crimson brushstroke of the lips on this oval without colour.

An extra brushstroke here and there would have colored over the too-pale cheek, brought a spark to the eye that would have doubled its effect.

With his usual thickly applied brushstrokes, Charlie had just caught the ?

But as Dioniso took a late-night stroll to clear the final brushstrokes of Princess Prune from his head, he witnessed an affecting moonlit scene in the private royal garden.

These are elaborate mind pictures, lovingly rendered in brushstrokes of pink.

It never ceased to fascinate her, the intricate beauty of space, the bold brushstrokes of worlds while approaching a star system, the grand perspective of galaxies when one drew back.