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Examples of bistre
bistre
This pen and bistre version contains no suggestion of Hell, yet its outline was adapted into one of The Garden's most memorable grotesques.
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Pen and bistre on paper.
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They could not, however, approach the beautiful, sure clarity with which Rem brandt set down, in a few streaks and slashes of bistre, a windmill facing the estuary from an old bulwark of Amsterdam.
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- Bister: a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot
- Bistre (or bister) is both a shade of gray and a shade of brown made from soot, and the general name for a color resembling the pigment. Bistre's appearance is generally of a dark grayish brown, with a yellowish cast.
- Is a brown tint made from wood called soot and is used for drawing by art masters of old.
