Chinese ink
Example Sentences
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Like the work of a traditional Chinese ink painter, her words sketch around spots of blankness, leaving suggestive lacunae.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2019
He was clicking through a slideshow that included an image of the building’s structural system hand-drawn in Chinese ink.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2017
The setting at the Aug. 19 meeting was calm: A room with plush cream carpets, Chinese ink brush landscape paintings and a vase of purple orchids.
From Reuters • Sep. 11, 2014
Some look like giant Rorschach blots, others like oversize Chinese ink brush swaths.
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2012
Take a stick of solid Chinese ink of good quality, and break it with a hammer into fragments; put these to soak in a pot with water for three or four days.
From Wood-Block Printing A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice by Fletcher, F. Morley (Frank Morley)
