The Lyre—Large Lyre, four strings and two palms filling center of plate, border groups of rays and pointed, stippling deeply indented, bulls eye edge.
The molds were heavily grouved and fine stipplingwas avoided because this caused greater tendency to breakage which was undesirable in anything containing inflammable material.
The first plates were crude and heavy but as time went on less glass was blown against the molds with greater force resulting in plates of brilliant stippling and delicacy.
This might well be called Snake-skin because the stippling is so merged that the term applies to it much more than to the fine early specimen.
Words HENRY CLAY in large letters above head, border of fine stippling with ten large fleurs de lis serrated edge.
Scrolled ends and feet, crown with feathers and star on side, band of stippling below crown.
Large eagle with 13 stars, medallion border, no stippling in background.
Same with no stippling in scallops and points on clear ground.
Towards the end of the century this stippling process was carried a step further.
The method adopted is that of stippling (page 64).
The principal work of retouching, the stippling of the face, neck and shoulders when bare, and the hands, is done with Graphite or metallic leads, and directly upon the varnished or film surface.
Note carefully the way the subject is lighted, and let the effect of the stippling be in that direction; you will thus be less likely to change the character or likeness of the face.
Retouching, like stippling or hatching in miniature, is a work of art, skill in which is gained only by assiduous practice controlled by good taste, and it is the special work of the artist and not of the photographer.
This is to be done with the motion that painters use in "stippling," and may very well be done with a stippling brush, if you have one.
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.
In this process of stipplingdry color into wet paint, plaster Paris may very frequently be used to good advantage to deaden gloss, and soften effects.
You can draw a needle through; but as a rule you do not want to take lights out of stipple, since you can complete the shading in the single process by stippling more or less according to the light and shade you want.
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.
When you have put on your matt with the camel-hair brush, take a stippling brush (fig.
It was subjugated to a certain greyness which was applied in little spots resembling the black-and-white stippling of some of Seurat's drawings.
The Neo-Impressionists made mathematical the Impressionists' haphazard stippling and had turned the spots into almost symmetrical squares.
To decorate: With the steel stippling tool mark any little design on the surface of the lid or body, or both, pricking up the design.
Is there any one who believes that Morland would have done better work if he had spent three or four years stippling drawings from the antique at South Kensington?
What I have described is not more foolish than the stippling at South Kensington or the drawing by the masses at Julien's.
Furthermore, specimens from the coast have less stippling in the gular region than do those from the Sierra de Coalcoman and the slopes of the Cordillera Volcanica.
The fins are transparent and stippled with brown, thestippling being most pronounced on the posterior two-thirds of the upper tail-fin.
Individuals from the northern part of the range are more rugose and have larger blue ventral patches and less gular stippling than those from the south.
After the stippling is dry rub in the oil color, which is composed of about three-fourths burnt sienna to one-fourth burnt umber, or a little Vandyke brown may be added to the color.
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).
Of course the stippling may be done after the work is dry, but it makes a better appearance if done before the rubbing with oil.
Care must be taken not to add much water to the stippling color, or the stippling will be wiped off when the rag is used over it.
When a piece of work is rubbed in, it may lightly be stippled with the dry brush (or the stippling may first be done in distemper before the oil color is applied).
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.
By using the finer steel combs covered with cotton rag and stippling the work, when combed, with the dry brush, a very fair imitation is obtained.
The work, when dry, may be lightly stippled in distemper, or a thin glaze of color without stippling may be applied to bring the work to the desired depth of color; this shading-color may be mixed in oil or water color.
In other eggs the stippling is altogether wanting, and the markings are smaller and less well-defined.
The visual image is continuous, notwithstanding the retinal stippling and the existence of the blind spot.
And it must be remembered that, even in human vision, the stimulation is not that of a continuum, but is stippled with the fine stippling of the ends of the rods and cones.
In vision the stippling is very fine, owing to the minute size and close setting of the retinal cones.
In insect-vision the stipplingis far coarser, and the image is produced on different principles.
For best results in spreading heavy tints, fitch hair stippling brushes or dabbers are used before using cloth pads.
If a fine bronze effect is desired, it may be had by stippling gold over fired Matt colors.
The treatment may either be by wash or stippling and hatching.
Stippling and hatching is the going over our work with dots or crossed lines.
Stippling and hatching are applied to the flesh and to the folds of the draperies.
In the Chinese soft paste better effect was produced by the hatching and stippling style of decoration which was adopted in later times and superseded the broad washes adopted in the Kang-he period.
Avoid any grayish stippling on the breast of the drake and also on the wing-bows.
Those who did not know him spoke of his childish stippling and of the decline of his talent.
Those who did know him saw in this stippling the issue of the same endeavours which poor Charles de la Berge had made before him, and of the principles on which the landscape of the English Pre-Raphaelites was being based about this time.
Included in as stippling must be added the check roller work, as this may be done in such a way as to replace the stippling done with the flogger for certain woods, in the graining of some peculiar specimen of quartered oak especially.
After the stippling the graining may be done in oil by wiping out.
The operator doing the stippling must hurry his work with the flogger or stippler (see Fig.
The graining may be done with or without stippling, but if the stippling is well done it will improve it.
The stippling color is best made from some good Vandyke brown, and it may also be made from burnt umber in distemper.
The openness of the wood represented by the pores is easily reproduced by the stipplingit should receive before the heart growth is either wiped out in oil graining or pencilled on in distemper.
The graining of the various woods in oil and water colors, which includes the over-graining, stippling or glazing required to bring the work to completion ready for varnishing.
There will be enough porousness show after the blending to make a more natural appearance than if the stippling had not been resorted to.
The color used for the stippling should be the same as given for ash stippling, but should have but little whiting added to it, as the pores must appear coarse and prominent.
This will enable the washing up of the stippling by the pressure of the blender, and will leave a paler base for the veining, which by the stronger contrast will appear more natural.
