ascetic

Feeling word · 7 styles

A spare taste pointing at mind-nature. Low value, minimal saturation, ink black, matte; dry brush lines; quiet, restrained. Of monk portraits, ink sketches.

Styles

• Zen Painting
• Yugen
• Zen Painting
• Mi-Family Cloudy Mountains
• Liang Kai's Abbreviated-Brush Style
• Ink-Brush Outline
• Mi-Dot Horizontal Dots

Co-occurs with

• hand-built
• vanishing
• sparseness
• sharp-soft
• swarm
• negative space
• austerity
• mistiness
• dry-brush
• impasto
• the abyss
• seclusion

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