Surface enrichment must be related to the structural contours but must not obscure the actual structure.
As a contrast to this, notice the carefully considered relations between the letter W on the tea strainer in Figure 404 and its adaptation to the contoursof the appendage.
Vary the contours to be sympathetically related to these design motives, provided such variation of the original primary mass is necessary to complete unity.
Draw leading lines in sympathy with thecontours of the panel, the inceptive axis, and the point of concentration.
Surface enrichment should at some point parallel the contours of both primary mass and point of concentration especially whenever the latter is a stone or enamel.
The division of the primary mass into zones of service and enrichment with the suggestion of the leading lines which, at some points, are parallel to the contours and lead up to the point of concentration.
In this figure a single incised band parallels thecontours of the figure until the corner is reached.
The contours of fully enriched panels should parallel the outlines of the primary mass and repeat its proportions.
Surface enrichment should at some point parallel the contours of both primary mass and point of concentration, especially whenever the latter is a stone or enamel.
The contours of their figures are exactly copied from their father, but they are not so animated.
To a vivacity and fancy that delight us, he added an attention to his contours and colouring, and a powerful relief, particularly in his oil pictures.
Andrea discovered less talent than Ottavio; and was, perhaps, more tenacious than he in his imitation of Raffaello, especially in the contours of his faces.
The colour is true, the heads are correctly drawn, the naked figure well understood, the contours sufficiently accurate and well relieved.
Vilma, with her wet clothing clinging to the lovely contours of her symmetrical body.
Only the torn remnants of her under-garments covered the rounded contours of her body, and Corio crouched over her, caressing the pink flesh.
The superficial covering which gives the continental shelf its smooth contours is composed largely of sediments such as rivers bring from the land.
No portraits so blasting as his have ever been created by another; no other hand has so devastatingly shattered the conventional contours of faces to reshape them into the awful images of their own hidden potentialities.
The experienced collector, who has seen and handled tens of thousands of prints, becomes accustomed to the texture of the various papers, the tones of the various colours, and the contours of line-cutting.
He felt the contours of her body through her clothes.
This was a Mrs. Braiding very different from the Mrs. Braiding of 1914, a shameless creature of more rounded contours than of old, and not quite so spick and span as of old.
A gold-laced tunic, over which she wore a thin muslin robe, revealed the swelling contours of her form.
It gives the contours a new quality and the shadows a new texture.
He must reproduce as nearly as he can the spirit and form of his original, and, since in a work of art spirit and form are one, his first care must be to preserve as accurately as possible the contours and the shading of his model.
Her masses of golden hair, disheveled, added to the soft contours of her features.
At her he did not dare to look, but the corner of his eye could see her shape stiffened against the fireplace, an attitude so different from the pliable contours to which he was accustomed in her as almost to be repellant.
I am now speaking of all kinds of rocks indifferently;--not of their appearance in small pieces, but of their great contours in masses, thousands of feet thick.
The lines which are produced by course of time upon hill contours are mainly divisible into four systems.
It indeed happens, not unfrequently, that in hills composed of somewhat soft rock, the aqueous contours will so prevail over the straight cleavage as to leave nothing manifest at the first glance but sweeping lines like those of waves.
Chamouni, known, from the rapid decay and fall of its crags, as the Aiguille Pourri; and at first there indeed seems little distinction between its contours and those of the summit of a sea wave.
Farther, in the minor divisions of the outline, the tendency of the peak at a will be always to assume contours like those at a in Fig.
It presents even smoother and broader masses than any which I have shown as types of hill form; but it must be remembered that Masaccio had seen only the softer contours of the Apennine limestone.
It is formed of decomposing granite, thrown down in blocks entirely detached, but wedged together, so as to stand continually in these seemingly perilous contours (being a portion of such a base of aiguille as that in b, Fig.
It was from one to three miles broad, and from five to 200 feet deep, according to the contours of the mountain slopes over which it flowed.
His explanation is based upon the mountaincontours of the coast of California from the Santa Barbara channel northward to the Golden Gate.
Lord knows what the woman found to run after in this tight-waisted youth with the heavycontours behind.
A drawing is only a map of its general outline, with perhaps contours approximately indicated by shading.
They should explain rather than confuse thecontours of the surface.
If the gouges do not entirely adapt themselves to the contours of your lines, do not trouble, but leave that bit to be done afterward with a sweep of the tool, either a flat gouge, or the corner-chisel used like a knife.
To follow the contours of rivers, bays, and sounds, a voyage of at least twenty-five hundred miles was before me.
Mantegna has made use of the most formal and Squarcionesque contours in his surroundings.
It is so far from us that the individual contours are indistinguishable, and it rises like a wall of a universal light blue hue, which, however, is a little deeper than the colour of the sky.
Clear rivulets trickle across the road, the valley contracts and its contours become bolder and more pronounced; the granite ceases and is replaced by fine-grained crystalline schist.
The scene changes every other minute, new contours and landscapes present themselves, new points of view and lights and shades follow one another, and keep the attention of the traveller on the stretch.
The contours of the mountains now become more rounded, the relative heights diminish, and the valleys are not so deeply excavated as on yesterday's ride.
The fantastic contours of the mountains stand out sharply with their wild pinnacles of rock and embattled crests, which above Bod-Karbu mingle with the old walls and towers, of which only ruins are now left.
His effects are achieved by sweeping contours instead of a series of planes.
He had painted the thousand and one expressive moments in the life of our species as a hymn to humanity, and their contours are eternal.
That these are vase forms and not bowl contours is immaterial.
If at the same time the diameter be made smaller in comparison with its height the attractiveness of the contours will be still more improved.
Our first constituents of ornament will therefore be abstract lines, that is to say, the most frequent contours of natural objects, transferred to architectural forms when it is not right or possible to render such forms distinctly imitative.
When the maincontours of the base are once determined, its decoration is as easy as it is infinite.
The afternoon was far gone before there came a change, imperceptible at first, a gradual sobering of colour, and a growing definiteness in the contours of trees and bushes.
The limit of the contours is marked off by parallel lines cut vertically from top to bottom.
The forms of some are slighter than the forms of others; while in some the contours of the chest are more accentuated, and the legs farther apart, than in others.
The bodies are represented as bandaged, and but vaguely indicate the contours of the human form.
The contours of the flesh are somewhat full and wanting in firmness, as would be the case in middle life, if the man's occupation debarred him from active exercise.
The whole is delicate, brilliant, and harmonious; not a flaw mars the purity of the contours or the clearness of the lines.
The contours of the trunk are best modelled in a three-quarters view, whereas the legs show to most advantage when seen sidewise.
The shoulders, bosom, and bodily contours are modelled under the drapery with a grace and reserve which it is impossible to praise too highly.
Obtaining elevations for the drawing of contours is a slightly longer process.
If the contours are close together, the ground represented has a steep slope, and vice versa.
If contours are to be drawn, the height of the lens above the ground at the station should be measured and recorded.
Before contours can be drawn the elevations of a considerable number of points must be known.
All elevations determined for the purpose of drawing contours are ground elevations and not the elevation of the top of objects located on the map.
For many purposes, contours are not essential, and the refinements necessary for their drawing may be omitted.
Contours are lines joining points of equal elevation; they represent successive shore lines, if the area mapped were inundated and the water should rise slowly foot by foot.
These lines are exactly like contours except that the elevations and forms of the hills and depressions which they represent are estimated and the sketcher draws the form lines in to indicate the varying forms of the ground as he sees it.
Army field sketches is as follows: For road sketches, 3 inches = 1 mile, vertical interval between contours (V.
Never try to "sketch in" the contours until you have plotted the stream lines or the direction of the valleys, ravines, etc.
The contours on maps are always numbered, the number of each showing its height above some plane called a datum plane.
Lay off on this line from D' distances equal to the distances of the successive contours from D on the map.
The contours are fitted to or sketched around the drainage system; not the drainage system to the contours.
These lines are accurately mapped and their slopes determined and the contours are then sketched in.
It crosses this hill in a "saddle," for both north and south of this summit on the road are contours marked 60 and even higher.
An excellent idea of what is meant by contours and contour-lines can be gotten from Figs.
The horizontal distance betweencontours on a map (called map distance, or M.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
