Of course, the generality of people said that the plates were prepared beforehand with vague misty figures, and the imagination of the sitter did the rest.
They then told us to extinguish the lights again, and each sitter was to wish mentally for something for himself.
He carried the child to each sitter that it might be thoroughly examined; and when he had returned "Yonnie" to the cabinet, he came out again on his own account.
One hand took a glove from a sitter and put it on the other, showing the muscular force it possessed by the way in which it pressed down each finger and then buttoned the glove.
I inquired of every sitter if they had seen it, even making them turn out their pockets in case they had taken it in mistake for their own, but it was not to be found, and I returned home, as I thought, without it.
My aunt did not at first grasp the idea, but what Nibletts did in fact refer to was a contrivance that would admit one sitter only at a time, subsequent unauthorised entrance being cut off by an ingenious drop slide.
Further elaborate construction also prevented the sitter herself from turning round to peck.
The companion piece, representing Felicitas Tucherin, would seem at some period to have been restored to the insignificance and obscurity that belonged to the sitter before Dürer painted her.
Even the posthumous portrait of his Imperial patron Maximilian is less interesting than the drawings from which it was done, the eccentric sitter not having the time to spare for so sensible a monument.
It is a close sitterwhile incubating; Bowles had to lift one off its nest.
He sent out a telegram to Balaklava Place requesting his beautiful sitter by no manner of means to fail him.
These questions would have given Peter still more to think about had he not flattered himself he had made up his mind that they concerned Nick and his sitterherself infinitely more than they concerned any one else.
Rembrandt further aided the concentration of attention on the countenance of a sitter by the use of warm inconspicuous tones in the clothing, which harmonize with all kinds of surroundings in which the picture may be seen.
The sitteris supposed to have been the model also for La Bella in the Uffizi, and the Woman in Fur at the Vienna Gallery.
In three quarter and full length portraits it is impossible to depart from the dress customary at the period of execution, unless the sitter assume a classical character, and this is only possible in comparatively few instances.
Each sitter should be animated by the same spirit--I do not use this word in its spiritistic acceptation--and seek only the truth; for I take it for granted they will operate as I have done.
I have frequently heard a sitter say that he saw a light in a given direction; the others looked in their turn and also saw it.
The personification might be asked to name the sitter who is to be replaced, and, if possible, to designate his substitute.
I have just been telling him what a capital sitter you were, and now you have spoiled everything.
Between the camera and the sitter a female figure was developed, rather in a more pronounced form than that of the sitter.
Some were lighted from the right, while the sitter was from the left; some were comely .
His view was that Rector inhibited the thought-transference from the sitter to Mrs. Piper's subliminal, on the messages, so far as that was possible.
Now, let us suppose that this stream of thought is suddenly interrupted by the sitter asking an abrupt question--referring to another incident altogether, and perhaps related to another time in the communicator's life.
The sitter must keep perfectly still while the outline of the shadow is quickly traced upon the paper.
A tumbler or roll of paper may be placed between the head of the sitter and the wall, to aid in holding the head quiet.
Still, in the same moment, I saw the prisoner start up, lean across his captor, and pull the cloak from the neck of the shrinking sitter in the galley.
The fair complexion of the sitter is remarkably preserved, the white ruff, the jewels, and the gold brocade are very cleverly handled.
Without the slightest ceremony, he made the sitter lift her head, which finally began to express utter weariness.
The sunny day and bright light aided him not a little: he saw in his dainty sitter much which, caught and committed to canvas, would give great value to the portrait.
Everybody is made to pose before posterity; each sitter has the smile to give his or her descendants the most exalted idea of his or her station and manners.
I was telling my sitterhow great were the difficulties I had to contend with as a host and an impresario when I had a musical At home at the Studio.
Mr. Cleveland listened with that interest which every good sitter is expected to display whilst under treatment, and sympathetically agreed with me that it was wise not to begin a thing till it was finished.
The Graceful Sitter ¶ The way you sit tells a great deal about your nature.
The Solid Sitter ¶ When a Muscular sits down he does it as he does everything--with definiteness and force.
The Stiff Sitter ¶ Extremely Osseous people are inclined to be somewhat formal in their movements.
Into Olga Tcherny's portrait he had put something more of his sitter than usual.
When his sitter had departed in a rush to keep her engagement, he filled his pipe again and walked the floor smoking furiously, the scenario of Olga's little drama taking a more definite form.
The best expression and pose are generally secured when the sitter is unaware of the actual moment of exposure; and for this purpose a silent shutter working inside the camera is best.
The sitter should never be asked to keep still unless, in groups, and when circumstances necessitate a long exposure; and nowadays an exposure of five or six seconds is a long one.
The sitter should not be kept waiting in the pose to be photographed any longer than is absolutely necessary.
When taking portraits in an ordinary room it is usual to place the sitter near the window, so that one side of the face is strongly lighted and the other in deep shadow, and then use a white reflector to light up the shadow side.
A head-rest should not be used unless absolutely necessary, and few photographers are aware how easily it can be dispensed with, and fail to realize how strong an objection nearly every sitter has to it.
It is far better to have an occasional plate spoilt by working without the rest than to make every sitter uncomfortable by its use.
It is often better, when the window is a large one, to place the sitter farther back in the room almost facing the window, and put the camera near the middle of the window looking into the room; a softer lighting will then be secured.
Bol's favourite sitterseems to have been Admiral de Ruyter--if one may judge by the number of his portraits of that sea ravener which Holland possesses.
Of Captain Franz Banning Cocq as a soldier we know nothing, but as a sitter he is hardly second to any in the world.
Frequently, the statement is made that the sitter did actually place the slate on the table, when in reality the medium did so.
Mistakes of this kind are very common, the sitter thinking afterwards that he (the sitter) MUST have placed the slates on the table himself!
When this part of the performance is finished, the medium and his sitter then join or clasp their right hands (as in handshaking), and the sitter is instructed not to release the hand for a single instant.
Among Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel there is a figure of the prophet Isaiah, whose pose is quite similar, and may have suggested both to painter and sitter the idea of the Tragic Muse.
Plainly there was a perfect sympathy betweensitter and painter.
His imagination seemed to weave some story about each sitter which the picture was intended, as it were, to illustrate.
The pose of thesitter suggests some dramatic moment in the imaginary episode.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sitter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
