Barely visible on the grass beneath the tree is a whimsical, sketchy figure of a woman holding an umbrella.
Paul Tatum, who appears as an even sketchier figure in Pearson's novel "Blue Ridge" (along with his cousin Ray) is so distracted that he never gets around to sharing some vital information.
The technique of painting in white overglaze pigment on the blue-white glaze, called bianco sopra bianco ("white on white"), was effectively employed; purple and blue were also used in decoration, which mostly took the form of sketchy flowers, figures, and scrollwork, sometimes in the "Chinese" style.
The two agencies based their estimate on sketchy population figures for the Irawaddy delta.
Ultimately, however, the style was modified by the influence of a contemporary trend in drawing (based on the Utrecht Psalter, c. 830) that featured sketchy, agitated figures.
Around this time, too, he painted a group of semi-abstract New York cityscapes in which crowds of sketchy, ill-defined figures mill against massings of glamorous skyscrapers.
Sim plays counterpoint melodies on his bass, while Croft plays angular figures, sketchy musical patterns, and melodies developed from two-note intervals; Price likens Croft's use of the guitar to playing a harp.
Historical population figures are sketchy.
Sketchy images of two figures, a skull, and what might be plants are incidental to the novelty of a medium associated with kitsch.
Most 17th-century specimens are decorated in blue on a white ground; the painting of landscapes, ships, animals, birds, and sometimes human figures is sketchy but assured, often with deliberately visible brushstrokes.
