Drawings without lines.
Ben, your thoughts about drawing and the line got me thinking about these drawings by Seurat
They are drawing in the sense that they are made with a dry medium (contè crayon) on paper, but they depict shape like paint can - describing the whole shape from the middle out towards the outer edge. Paint is a liquid and can be moved and spread out. These drawings don't put a line around the edge of a perceived shape; they fill in and work out. also edges and boundaries are blurred and seem to overlap each other. As a massive fan of blurry visual experiences ... i love these drawings. Also, I noted that pastel drawing is often referred to as pastel painting. so that knocks down the argument that the difference is to do with the wet medium or dry medium thing!
These are great Dan. Thanks. They and your other example points to there being various spectra between "drawing" and "painting".