Drybrush is for more contemplative works (as compared to watercolour), or when a work arrives at profound emotional stage. “I use a smaller brush, dip into the colour, splay out bristles, squeeze out a good deal of the moisture and colour with my fingers so that’s only a very small amount of paint left”. Drybrush is layer upon layer – a definite “weaving process”.

By Thomas Hoving in “Andrew Wyeth”

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