While his early works were mainly oils and sketchy portraits, Basu is now involved with acrylics on canvas and occasionally pencil or charcoal drawings.

Until the early 1960s Basu worked with oils on canvas rendering landscapes, made sketchy portraits and drawings, he then turned to non-representational works.

It is a sketchy portrait, and the formality of the subject's three-piece suit and white shirt is disrupted by a loosened necktie.

One of the meeting's most significant achievements was to help fill in a sketchy portrait of the 58-year-old Kim Jong Il, who has been caricatured outside his country as a crackpot and a playboy.

The police and court records provide a sketchy portrait of the religious group under investigation by several Wisconsin police departments because of the letters sent to funeral homes.

While the Y.& R. clients explore the Soviet marketplace, the consumer research the agency conducted recently produced an interesting, if sketchy, portrait of Soviet consumers.

But this is also a flabby 'problem picture', a sketchy portrait of white middle class families cracking under the strain of an alienated Los Angeles lifestyle.

A sketchy portrait of one of the hijackers pales next to the carefully observed portraits that appeared in the Los Angeles Times reporter Terry McDermott's 2005 book, "Perfect Soldiers."

They are watching for the person who may have abducted them, searching for clues in the sketchy psychological portrait that the federal and local authorities released this week.

The five working stiffs, all parents, chosen to represent their stratum do seem pretty happy in their sketchy portraits.