tusche

For $3.00 a week he made tusche and did every kind of manual work entrusted to an apprentice.

The image is created by applying a tusche (greasy substance) to a plate or stone.

His latest print is, it seems, another nocturne, a large 1926 lithograph of a windmill sitting on the shore of a lake depicted in gray, liquid wipes and tusche rubbings.

Mazura, Franz, Franz Mazura - Mit Tusche und Notenband, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2006 (Memoirs written and illustrated by Mazura, in German).

Lithography, in which an image is drawn with greasy crayon or tusche directly on the printing plate, makes its most flamboyant appearance here in the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, famous for his simplified, highly stylized designs for posters and book illustrations.