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"Scratchy" Quotes from Famous Books
... touches, (about three or four minutes' work in all,) though the head is colossal. The background is then laid in with thick, solid, warm white, actually projecting all round the head, leaving it in dark intaglio. Finally, five thin and scratchy strokes of very cold bluish white are struck for the high light on the forehead and nose, and the head is complete. Seen within a yard of the canvas, it looks actually transparent—a flimsy, meaningless, ... — Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin |
Words linked to "Scratchy" : rough, abrasive, irritable, rasping, scratchiness, peevish, uneven, scratch, inconsistent, ill-natured, unsmooth, spotty, raspy, techy, cacophonic, cranky, cacophonous, grating, nettlesome, fractious, testy, pettish, tetchy, peckish |
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