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Sketch vs Sinopia - What's the difference?

sketch | sinopia |

As nouns the difference between sketch and sinopia

is that sketch is sketch (short musical, dramatic or literary work or idea) while sinopia is a reddish-brown ochre-like pigment, derived from sinople, used in traditional oil painting and as the cartoon for frescos.

sketch

English

(wikipedia sketch)

Alternative forms

* scetch

Verb

(es)
  • To make a brief, basic drawing.
    • I usually sketch with a pen rather than a pencil.
  • To describe briefly and with very few details.
    • He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=
    • , title=, volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Pixels or Perish , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches , geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
  • A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
  • A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show, a skit; or, a brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano; or, a brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
  • (lb) An amusing person.
  • Keeping sketch : to keep a lookout.

    • Related terms

    * sketchbook * sketchy

    Descendants

    * German: (l)

    sinopia

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A reddish-brown ochre-like pigment, derived from sinople, used in traditional oil painting and as the cartoon for frescos.
  • The rough sketch (executed in sinopia) which underlies a fresco.
  • * 1985 , Joseph Reese Strayer, Dictionary of the Middle Ages
    • Today many of the sinopias have been uncovered by a method called stacco.
  • *2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 89:
  • *:In the course of lifting the frescoes from the walls the restorers discovered Simone's full-scale working drawings (in red chalk made from iron oxide and known as sinopie ) which lay directly beneath the painted plaster [...].
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