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Cross-hatching A tech­nique in which oil paint or another medium is laid down or drawn in a series of criss-crossing strokes to build up depth and tone.

 


Cross-hatching: Using fine overlapping planes of parallel lines of color or pencil to achieve texture or shading.

cross-hatching Two or more sets of roughly parallel and overlapping lines, set at an angle to one another, in order to create a sense of three-dimensional, modeled space. See also hatching.

CROSS-HATCHING
An area of closely spaced lines intersecting one another, used to create a sense of three-dimensionality on a flat surface, especially in drawing and printmaking. See also hatching, stippling.
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cross-hatching See hatching.
Cubism The most influential style of the twentieth century, developed in Paris by Picasso and Braque, beginning in 1907. The early mature phase of the style, called Analytical Cubism, lasted from 1909 through 1911.

cross-hatching - See hatching.
crossing - The space in a cruciform church formed by the intersection of the nave and the transept.
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cross-hatching - The practice of overlapping parallel sets of lines in drawing to indicate lights and darks, or shading.

CROSS-HATCHING - Fine lines used to shade or model. This technique is commonly used in drawing and engraving .Crosshatching consists of a series of parallel lines, crossed by others at right angles. See hatching.

Cross-hatching
Using patterns of parallel, criss-crossing lines to create tones on drawings and engravings. See also HATCHING.

Cross-hatching: Using parallel lines close together, crossed at an angle with other paraIIel lines to create shading effects on drawings or prints. Hatching means simply shading by use of parallel lines.

Hatching and Cross-Hatching with Pastels
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Hatching and cross-hatching are but two ways to apply shading. You can also just scribble circles in spots you want it to be darker (and then smudge it with your thumb), apply dots or stippling (some people call it pointillism).

Hatching (hachure in French) and cross-hatching are artistic techniques used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing (or painting or scribing) closely spaced parallel lines.

When crossed by other lines in the opposite direction it is known as cross-hatching.
Haut-relief (Alto-rilievo, high relief)
Form of sculptural relief characterized by a prominent projection from the surrounding surface.
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However, his handling of the claw chisel does reveal his debt to Ghirlandaio's early influence, and this is evident in the cross-hatching of Michelangelo's drawings--a technique he undoubtedly learned from his master.

It was the first tonal method to be used, enabling half-tones to be produced without using line or dot based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple.

Return to topCross-hatching: Using fine overlapping planes of parallel lines of color or pencil to achieve texture or shading.

Engraving: The most popular of the intaglio methods of printmaking, an engraved print is created by scratching or cross-hatching into the surface of a polished metal plate.

When such lines are placed at an angle across the first, it is called cross-hatching. Artists use this technique, varying the size, closeness and other qualities of the lines, most commonly in drawing, linear painting and engraving.

Hatching. To create the effect of tone or shadow by a series of parallel lines or, in the case of Cross-Hatching, of parallel lines crossed by others.

One of the most common ways for an artist to suggest volume and depth or to depict shadow, by which closely drawn parallel lines are grouped together. In the case of cross-hatching, the parallel lines are crossed by other sets of lines, ...

A technique used in drawing and linear forms of printmaking in which lines are placed in parallel series to darken the value of an area; Closely set parallel lines that create shading by playing with light and tone. Cross-hatching is drawing one set ...

The lines may be intersected by other parallel lines, a technique known as cross-hatching; or they may be over-hatched. Parallel marks made with a drypoint were used on geographical maps to represent water.

purely linear means: the artist makes closely spaced parallel lines with a drawing instrument, usually pen and ink or chalk, in order to create areas of tone, as we see in this detail of a leg in a Michelangelo figure drawing. In "Cross-Hatching, ...

Stippling - A pattern of closely spaced dots or small marks used to create a sense of three-dimensionally on a flat surface, especially in drawing and printmaking. See also hatching, cross-hatching.

The colours are softened off and blended by the finger, with the assistance of a stump of leather or paper; and shading is produced by cross-hatching and stippling.

through the alienating visual conceits by which the islands of torn-out flesh are echoed in the flagstones of the two middle panels and both the flagstones and the criss-crossed pieces of wood are echoed in the patches of cross-hatching in the ...

The larger lines are subdivided two or three times, and the use of double cross-hatchings is further improved, giving the sheet a high degree of material density.

See also: Hatching, Painting, Size, Sculpture, Composition

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