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Example sentences for "stipple"

Lexicographically close words:
stipendiaries; stipendiary; stipends; stipes; stipitate; stippled; stippling; stipulate; stipulated; stipulates
  1. Chardin, in the hatchings of pastel, the stipple of water-colour.

  2. In the really handsome fan engraved in stipple by Godefroy we have an apotheosis of Bonaparte.

  3. This designed by Uwins and engraved in stipple by Cardon.

  4. Hugh Anderson, a Scot, did good line and stipple work in Philadelphia in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.

  5. An examination of the method of shading also bears witness to a transition, for there is observable both smear and stipple work.

  6. But among these fondi d'oro there is a small class of portrait heads, highly finished by means of a sort of pointille or stipple process, which are of a somewhat superior artistic merit.

  7. The Mixed Style is based on mezzotint, which, still forming the great mass of shading, is in this method combined with etching in the darker, and stipple in the more delicate parts.

  8. Among historical and portrait engravers in the stipple or dotted manner the names of H.

  9. The large plate by Simon from the "Merry Wives" has a wonderful lace apron which a recent writer on engraving has cald one of the best examples of the stipple manner.

  10. Engravings in stipple emfasize less than line engravings mere questions of drawing.

  11. The engravers, on the other hand, had had no better chance in years to exhibit their art than in this imposing series, and most of the best names in stipple appear in it.

  12. White; draw it over with vermilion and lake, shaded with fine lake, heightened with red lead and masticot mixed, and then with white; stipple them with white and thin lead.

  13. The stripes carmine, shaded with the same; indigo in the darkest parts, or stipple with it.

  14. A very coarse form of the process is "dry" stippling, where you stipple straight on to the surface of the clear glass, with pigment taken up off the palette by the stippling brush itself: for coarse distant work this may be sometimes useful.

  15. You must bear in mind that you cannot use scrubs over work like the last described, and cannot use them to much advantage over stipple at all.

  16. The stipple manner of engraving was a curious development of the art.

  17. Even the dots of a stipple are not made in that aimless fashion which their appearance might at first suggest.

  18. His style was free and spirited, and he was one of the first English engravers to prove the merits of stipple engraving.

  19. It appeared as though line engraving could not keep pace with the ever-growing demand for pictures, and was therefore combined with stipple to facilitate production.

  20. The object of using either the rough paper or Boss's stipple paper for drawings that are to be reproduced by photo-engraving is to produce a shading that is broken up into dots of varying sizes, which is essential in such reproduction.

  21. For relief shading on small black and white maps Ross's hand-stipple drawing paper may be used.

  22. Methods of expressing relief by contour lines, by hachures, by shading on stipple board, and by a brush drawing 49 7.

  23. Boss's relief hand-stipple paper is also well adapted to many kinds of brush drawings as well as to its primary use for producing stippled effects.

  24. A lithographic or wax crayon is the best medium to use on this stipple paper, as on the paper referred to in the preceding paragraph, for the shading produced by it is not so easily smeared as that produced in pastel or by a graphite pencil.

  25. A small addition to the chalk ink of indigo or Prussian blue greatly improves its colour and printing power, but may be considered more suitable for the reproduction of line or stipple subjects.

  26. Outer border has four large stars, edge scalloped and pointed with stipple extending to edge of serrations.

  27. The land area on most charts is distinguished from the water area by a stipple or tint; on some charts the topographic features have, however, been depended upon to bring out the land from the water.

  28. Great engravers were working in mezzotint and in line: stipple engravers under Bartolozzi's influence produced gems of English art printed in colours.

  29. Take another art, that of stipple engraving printed in colours.

  30. The latter method results in a coarser stipple effect, but it requires a much longer time and is more difficult than the former.

  31. The student will notice in particular the stipple effect in the reproduction.

  32. This treatment cuts through the gelatin surface and prepares it for the stipple effect.

  33. Conte crayon sauce in making the crayon sauce (to be applied with the ends of the fingers) to produce a broad effect and to make the stipple effect on the paper after it has been rubbed with pumice stone.

  34. Now rub the fingers in the crayon sauce, keeping them flat so that it will adhere evenly to them, and go over the background lightly as when rubbing in the pumice stone and you will produce a nice stipple effect.

  35. But instead of producing a diamond effect, as you did with the lines, you now want to have a stipple effect, which is that of small black and white spots; the paper producing the white spots, and the crayon the black ones.

  36. You will have a good guide in the background for finishing and giving the stipple effect, as there you will have this stipple effect quite perfect, especially in the light places.

  37. I can say from my own experience, that for producing a crayon over a photographic enlargement with the stipple effect, it has no equal in the beauty of finish and rapidity of execution.

  38. The foregoing illustration is the first or ground work for the stipple effect produced by the aid of the fingers.

  39. Should you find in finishing that they are not dark enough, use the stump to make them darker, as the pencil is only intended to give the stipple effect, and should be used in a very light and delicate way.

  40. For very delicate shading and tinting, stipple may be employed, but the dots must be quite definite, sufficiently large to stand reduction, and not too close together (Figs.

  41. All that the draughtsman has to do, is to indicate by blue pencil lines those parts on which he requires the dots, which give the half-tone, to be placed, and to select the pattern of the stipple he desires to be used.

  42. In my opinion, the best way to imitate walnut is first to stipple it with a thin mixture of Vandyke brown in distemper, using nothing but beer for thinner.

  43. First stipple in the work slightly darker than if it were to be gone over in oil, and then put in the grains with a fitch tool and the overgrainer.

  44. For a quick job, done wholly in oil, rub in the work rather dry and stipple with the flat brush; then put in the hearts with the fitch tool and blend.

  45. Lightly stipple all wiped-out hearts with the dry brush.

  46. The work looks fully as well, and I think cleaner, if the hearts are put in on the stippling without using a rag or sponge; do not stipple the work too heavily.

  47. Blend lightly with the dry brush and stipple the light places with the flat brush (or the stippling may be done in distemper on the ground-work before the oil color is applied).

  48. From this portrait a stipple engraving was made by Conde in 1794, but the miniature itself came into the possession of the Vernons, having belonged to a Miss Caroline Vernon who was maid of honour to Queen Charlotte.

  49. It would be better to stipple it so that in parts more light came through.

  50. With the progress of the century stronger stipple shading was used; more roundness and greater depth of shadow was thus achieved, at proportionate cost of silvery whiteness and brilliancy in the glass.

  51. At first he used to hatch them to get additional strength; eventually he was not careful always so much as to stipple them.

  52. This is not quite the same thing as the "stipple or matt shading" described on page 64, where the glass was entirely coated with a stippled tint and the lights brushed out.

  53. But in the latter half of the century it was the practice to stipple it, so as to soften the edges and give it a granular texture.

  54. Eventually, however, the painter began to stipple his smear of shadow, at once softening it and letting light into it.

  55. The aim of Bartolozzi and his followers was essentially prettiness; to this all their efforts tended, and for this stipple was a convenient medium.

  56. In stipple engraving, the burin and the dry point are used alternately, according to the degree of vigour or delicacy required.

  57. In common with stipple engraving, it renders the loose and broken lines of the originals by substituting a mass of dots for the ordinary work of the burin or the needle.

  58. It differs, however, from stipple engraving in the method of working, and even in the nature of the tools employed.

  59. The method of stipple was meanwhile slowly dying out, but, as often happens when some particular art seems about to expire, this was the very time when the capabilities of the style were shown in the highest perfection.

  60. James Walker must not be confused either with Anthony and his brother William, or with the stipple and mezzotint engraver William Walker of the present century.

  61. Some of the stipple miniature book illustrations which Jeens executed for Messrs.

  62. Lord Bute, which Strange had refused to undertake, and who, though of greater eminence in line, is credited with bringing into notice in England the stipple manner of engraving.

  63. This engraver was in no way related to the better-known stipple and historical engraver of the same name who flourished in the present century.

  64. If the color when put on appears too strong and conspicuous, stipple the surface with a little plaster Paris, to tone it down.

  65. You can tone down any oil color, however, by stippling it with a stipple brush dipped in a pan of dry color, or plaster Paris.

  66. She wanted to know the difference between a mezzotint and a stipple print.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stipple" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    band; bar; bedaub; besmear; blotch; burr; calcimine; carve; character; check; checker; chisel; chiseling; coat; color; cover; crease; cut; daub; dip; dot; dye; emblazon; enamel; engrave; engraving; etching; face; flake; freckle; fresco; furrow; gild; glaze; gloss; glyptic; grain; grave; groove; hatch; hatching; hue; illuminate; imbue; incise; incision; ingrain; inscribe; inscription; lacquer; line; lining; lithograph; marble; mark; marking; motley; mottle; paint; patch; pepper; pigment; prime; print; score; scrape; scratch; sculpture; shade; shadow; shellac; slash; slashing; smear; spangle; speck; splash; splotch; spot; sprinkle; stain; stigmatize; stipple; streak; striate; stripe; stud; tattoo; tincture; tinge; tint; tone; tool; tooling; variegate; varnish; vein; wash; whitewash