Ostensibly a graphic artist — relentlessly lettering and cartooning, filling surfaces with sketchy forms, and using color, if at all, mainly to fill in drawn shapes — he is in fact a painter to the core, always concerned with a picture's physical character and immediate impact.
In "Reflection," the sketchy ship form seems almost to dissolve in the blue ground.
But in "The Body" the hero, adrift both as a famous oldster in London cultural circles and as a beautiful youngster in the party circles of Europe, is so assimilated, so denatured, so securely removed from the lively, home-based ethnic/ethical conflicts usually driving Kureishi's fiction that his sketchy adventures form less a novel than a parable.
"They're very sketchy, not fully formed," she said.
Mr. O'Farrill's larger challenge, however, is to take songs that exist only in the sketchiest sheet-music form and make them sound truly Ellingtonian, ideally in a way that goes beyond mere mimicry.
England's one-day form remains sketchy - but maybe something is happening here.
Nise-e, (Japanese: "likeness painting"), form of sketchy portraiture that became fashionable in the court circles of 12th- and 13th-century Japan.
"Degas, Rodin and Moore: Bronzes by European Masters," at the Portland Museum of Art, amounts to a sketchy report in the form of 40 works, mostly French and German, on the involvement of 19th- and 20th-century artists with -- mostly -- small bronzes.
