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Examples
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But they weren't great painters, if one looks at their "brush-work".
The Düsseldorf School James Gurney 2009
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McDaniel has done an excellent job with the likeness, and the quality of her line and brush-work need no comment from me.
Peter Clothier: The "Carterization" of Barack Obama (Part V of a Series) 2009
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Violent, unreal colour and dramatic brush-work made Expressionist painting rock!
Archive 2008-12-01 Hels 2008
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Violent, unreal colour and dramatic brush-work made Expressionist painting rock!
Chaim Soutine, sad expressionist Hels 2008
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Postie Pete tells us this is some of the best work he's seen to date, with a marvellous use of light and shadow, and brush-work to die for!
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He understands all about etching, if not brush-work on a large scale like M. Cherbuliez.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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She would direct an assistant to hold a piece of twine or a yardstick against a canvas so she could visualize a form sometimes by peering through binoculars from across the studio, then she would have him draw the shape in charcoal, mix the paints, and do some of the background brush-work himself.
Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986
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It was built after the manner of the Indian tribes of Southern California -- a circular space of about fifteen feet in diameter enclosed by brush-work, and roofed by a low dome of the same material.
Old Mission Stories of California Charles Franklin Carter
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His colour is clear, his brush-work clean: and he handled sledging subjects with the vigour of a professional who knew all there was to be known about a sledging life.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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Two tarnished gilt buttons, -- naval, apparently, -- a portrait of a monarch unknown to me, cut from some antique print and deftly coloured by hand in just my own bold style of brush-work, -- some foreign copper coins, thicker and clumsier of make than those I hoarded myself, -- and a list of birds 'eggs, with names of the places where they had been found.
The Golden Age 1915
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