Sentence examples for sketchy style from inspiring English sources

The whimsical, sketchy style and spiky lettering are recognizable as Steinberg's.

Such works as The Synagogue (1725 30) reveal his nervous, sketchy style and his predilection for the bizarre.

The earliest identifiably Christian art consists of a few 2nd-century wall and ceiling paintings in the Roman catacombs (underground burial chambers), which continued to be decorated in a sketchy style derived from Roman impressionism through the 4th century.

And by Jacopo Bassano, "THE MOCKING OF CHRIST," a blackened night scene of soldiers tormenting Jesus, sketchily painted, in imitation of Titian's sketchy style, includes some slippery flesh and silky robes, cascading like water over rocks.

His loose, sketchy style and his use of encaustic, a waxy, drippy, translucent substance, keep the exact identity of his subjects nebulous, while the domestic themes like lawn mowing, bicycle riding and just plain frolicking give his work a personal but eccentric overtone.

Walker has a passionate, sketchy style that seems to leave as little space between idea and execution as possible.

Then there is his loose and sketchy manner of drawing, a style normally associated with intuitive modes of expression, and characterizing the work of early modern artists like Paul Klee, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.

"The rounded, sketchy drawing style, the humour, the inadequacies and foibles of the characters... these were what I could relate to".

$8.95 (Board book; ages 1 to 4) David McPhail's soft colors and rounded, sketchy drawing style suit the old-fashioned narrative of Bella and her stuffed rabbit, who go through the day together much as a mother and child might.

It depicts two nude male athletes, one penetrating the other from behind, in a sketchy and naive style more typical of cave painting than of Attic art in the fifth century B.C. To the Greeks, the license of the scene was neither abnormal nor shocking, yet it seems to have emboldened and liberated its artist to draw with rare spontaneity.

On a few crucial pages, we see Immonen's renderings of the masterpieces that are the catalyst for this small struggle within a much greater one — he draws them in a sketchier, more offhand style — and the story's tone shifts.