So that the Greek statue, even if eventually destined for marble, was conceived by a man having the habit of modelling in clay.
In their hands the chisel was not merely a second modelling tool, moulding delicate planes, uniting insensibly broad masses of projection and depression.
The modelling too was most charming: after the first few lessons, she was modelling from the life; and her head of A Beggar Boy was accepted for exhibition.
She would have her hobbies: she would take up her modelling again; after all, the Beggar Boy was very good.
The modellingof the limbs, not founded on Durer's close studies of the nude, still leaves much to be desired.
In this picture the cramping of the figures and the crude drawing of the hands and feet are noticeable, but in the modelling of the heads there is much that is very noble and very beautiful.
The influence of this style of work is perhaps traceable in the flatness and severe modelling of the hands, feet, and faces, and in the stiff movement of the figures in Wolgemut's pictures.
Hair and eyes were dark, and there was something curiously un-English in the modelling of the features, something subtly suggestive of a fiercer, more primal race.
The firelight showed the delicate network of lines round eyes and mouth, the modelling of the long curved lips.
The amount of landscape modelling that one man can effect in a lifetime is small, but a community of men, working generation after generation for many centuries, can effect much.
In great snow-fields and slopes, the surface modelling is often of transcendent beauty, and that modelling can be rendered to perfection by photography, if the right moment be chosen.
More modelling is visible upon the hillsides and the snow-fields in the bright hours; there are bluer noontide shadows and perhaps even a bluer sky also.
Moreover, how much entertainment is to be found in the really intricate modelling of the grass-covered surfaces.
In summer you must climb to the high snow-fields to behold the delicate modelling of which snow is capable on a large scale, but in winter such sights are all around you.
The one is modelled by its own motion; the other merely borrows its modelling from the ground on which it lies inertly.
It is only when low sunlight strikes it aslant and makes manifest its modelling that a suggestion is given of the actual angle of the slope leading up from the glacier floor below to the giddy crest.
What will strike him will be the graceful architecture of the view, the delicate outlines, the intricate rareness of surface modelling in the snow, the strongly relieved emphasis of the limiting lines of the framing hills.
Nothing more was heard of the bills which Lord John Russell had successfully carried through the commons, regarding the new modelling of episcopal sees, &c.
Clever handling in the modelling of the 'Nood,' as Bonnart used to call it when he talked English, and as for the light and shadow on his blessed shoulders, I call it a wonder.
The work went on in silence after this, for the modelling of muscle and flesh below this checker of light and shade and reflection was utterly absorbing to the artist.
He also got some clay and played with them at modelling figures of various kinds.
A love of beautiful things was naturally developed in them, and they naturally conceived a fondness for music and painting and modelling and poetry and story-telling.
The second girl, in a similar way, was more attracted to drawing and modelling and painting.
The man is utterly incapable of modelling a thumb nail, let alone a human figure.
It is partly true: I cannot pretend to be satisfied now with modelling pretty children.
THE NEWLY BORN [modelling herself on Ecrasia, and trying to outdo her intellectually] Clearly because they were dead.
As I have broken my idols, and cast away my chisel and modelling tools, so will you too break these busts of yours.
What chiefly interested Story in his profession seems to have been themodelling of unhappy women in various attitudes of reflection.
Hawthorne soon renewed William Story's acquaintance, and found him modelling the statue of Cleopatra, of which Hawthorne has given a somewhat idealized description in "The Marble Faun.
He who has modelled anything in clay or wax has, in a way, carved it in a soft material, while true carving is only modelling with gouges and chisels.
Contour or rounding and modelling of course correspond to light and shade, but plain gouge and cavo-cutting is simple sketching.
The pupil will do this as well again, and with far greater confidence and ease, should he begin firstly by making a shaded copy of a leaf in pencil, then modelling it in clay, and then copying this in wood.
Very beautiful patterns may be executed with very little finish; and a vast proportion of beautiful old Gothic wood-carving depended far more on outline than on modelling for its effect.
It may be observed that in modelling in clay there are certain methods of shaping the material, which are quite peculiar; as, for instance, when we press the modelling tool down or up, and at the same time turn it to the left or right.
Having for several years had under my supervision large classes in wood-carving, both with and without modelling in clay, I speak from experience on this subject.
Firstly, by means of squeezing or modelling wax, which is sold by dealers in artists' materials.
As the pupil proceeds, and improves in modelling and advances to copying--let us say excellent patterns of Renaissance and classic work--he will go far beyond such beginning.
In the head by Civitale, full half-round, which may easily be made full round, the carver may begin by modelling the whole.
Modelling is the rounding or shaping a pattern to give it form.
The conception and the modelling of horse and rider are due to the Florentine sculptor; the finishing of it and the design and execution of the pedestal to the Venetian.
The attempt of Ducis to make his countrymen acquainted with Shakspeare by modelling a few of his tragedies according to the French rules, cannot be accounted an enlargement of their theatre.
Yes, our versatile friend wasmodelling him as Judas Iscariot.
Though still weak in the House of Commons, it had spread prodigiously in the army, especially since its new-modelling at the time of the self-denying ordinance.
He ascribes the increase of enthusiasm in the army to the loss of its presbyterian chaplains, who left it for their benefices, on the reduction of the king's party and the new-modelling of the troops.
But after the scheme of new-modelling corporations began to be tried, it was his policy to wait the effects of this regeneration.
There were no real vegetables, but only the ideals of a firm of seedsmen, made of wax and splendidly coloured, with something of the boldness and vigour of Michael Angelo about the modelling of them.
James Tassie (born 1735), the Glasgow stonemason, applied the experience he had gained in the modelling of portrait heads in wax to the reproduction of antique gems in coloured pastes.
Henri Cros, in the modelling of polychrome reliefs and friezes.
The boys like them, and I enjoy modelling this sort of thing," said Merry, who was trying to mould a bird, as she had seen Ralph do with clay to amuse Jill while the bust was going on.
The modelling of gas fixtures might afford employment to a small number of qualified women.
Another maker of house ornaments said modelling could be learned in six months, and when a person has learned, he can earn from $3 to $5 a day of ten hours.
Modelling requires practice in drawing, and a knowledge of geometrical figures.
Women might be employed in modelling ornamental and scroll work for brass founderies, &c.
In sculpture, modelling is the inventive part of the work, and requires taste and genius; copying is a merely mechanical operation.
He gives instruction to boys and young men in modelling and drawing, charging 25 cents a lesson of 3 hours in the day or 2 in the evening.
The figures still recall those of Bellini, the modelling is close and careful, the forms compact, and reminiscent of the quattrocento.
I were modelling it direct from nature, I should first of all roll out a strip of clay for the stem, and put this on the plaque so that it makes a graceful curve.
I have recently been modelling some large works, using clay employed in making drain tiles, and having them fired in an ordinary brick kiln.
Modelling in clay is a very agreeable change in one's artistic occupation, for it is quite unlike other branches of art, and calls into play a different set of faculties for its performance.
It is necessary in modelling to simplify nature somewhat, for we cannot imitate nature in clay.
Wooden modelling tools can be purchased at some artists' colourmen, and also at some tool shops.
Model each part separately, either by pressing the leaves into clay and marking them round, or by modelling pure and simple, and then fasten the various parts on to the vase with diluted clay.
When the modelling has been started, the damp cloth must not press upon the modelled portions, but be supported on a wicker frame.
When this is accomplished, let the clay stand a little time uncovered, as the use of water will have made it very sticky, and the modelling tools cannot be used as efficiently when the clay is in this state as when it is drier.
There is a certain crispness about the modelling when wrought from plastic clay, which is often wanting in work tooled up when the clay is hard.
The modellingtools will enable you to begin to finish up the design, for at present the design exists only in its rough state.
The materials necessary to try one's hand at modelling are very inexpensive.
It was his first attempt at modelling from life, and he went at it with careful deliberation.
The vicar had half guessed as much in his dilettante hesitating way; but the workman, who knew what modelling was, saw it indubitably at once in that moist Bacchus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modelling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
