BEST VOCABULARY WORDS FOR IELTS – 326

Brushstroke – a mark made by a paintbrush drawn across a surface.

Sentence – The faces of the two people were created with just a couple of brushstrokes.

Brushwork – the characteristic work of an artist using a brush

Sentence – Often used for sketching or dry brushwork where little water is used.

Doodle – A rough drawing made absent-mindedly

Sentence – The text was interspersed with doodles”

Engraving – a print made from an engraved plate, block

Sentence – They will engrave your initials on the ring for free.

Face painting – bold-coloured paint used to decorate the face.

Sentence – bold-coloured paint used to decorate the face.

Freehand – done without the use of anything to guide the hand.

Sentence – They were given a free hand to settle their own form of government.

Lithographic – the process of printing from a plane surface on which the image to be printed is ink-receptive and the blank area

Sentence – The art of lithography greatly affected the production of maps.

Stippling – to engrave by means of dots and flicks.

Sentence – Now, using a stippling action, blend the paint together until it is almost a uniform color.

Shade – a colour, especially with regard to how light or dark it

Sentence – The room was painted a subtle shade of pink.

Spray paint – paint (an image or message) on to a surface with a spray.

Sentence – slogans had been spray-painted on to hoardings.

Vanishing point – a point at which receding parallel lines seem to meet when represented in linear perspective

Sentence – I come to circumstances in which it may be reduced almost to vanishing point.