Brush in hand, he raised his entire arm to change the contour of a charcoal line faintly visible below a wash of white.
He used his little finger as a shading stump to modify a charcoal line.
A final charcoal line, dark black, was placed just at the corner of the lips and gives this head an expression of astonishment or surprise.
The charcoal lines looked rough in comparison with the precision of the oil paint, but the image was clear.
James Bohary's drawings are organizations of rather thick, bar-like charcoal lines.
They all sat looking at the charcoal lines on the cloth, as if they could somehow force them to yield more information.
The texts are mounted on charcoal lines that look like frames in photo albums, or bars of cages.
They look like charcoal lines sketched against the sky, like one of those new "modern" paintings.
The last artist, Norman Turner, takes the show back to the charcoal line, in surface terms at least.
The squares of meadow green are divided by a gold seam that is supported by charcoal lines on each side.