Hatching

Hatching and Cross-Hatching with Pastels
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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.

Hatching
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.

Hatching
One of the basic ways an artist builds up form through 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, ...

Hatching
A series of closely spaced parallel lines, used in drawing or engraving to render a uniform color or shadow. In cross- hatching two sets of lines are used, placed across one another, usually at perpendicular angles.
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hatching
The engraving, etching or drawing of closely spaced fine lines to give the effect of shadow.
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hatching: creating tonal or shading effects with closely spaced parallel lines. When such lines are placed at an angle across the first, it is called cross-hatching.

Hatching - A technique of modeling, indicating tone and suggesting light and shade in drawing or tempera painting, using closely set parallel lines.

Hatching
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.

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.

hatching An area of closely spaced parallel lines, employed in drawing and engraving, to create the effect of shading or modeling. See also cross-hatching.

hatching - A technique used in drawing to indicate light and shade, or form, consisting of parallel lines of varying width, darkness and spacing.

HATCHING.
Parallel lines which are cut close together in an engraving with the aim of giving an effect, en masse, of a grey or dark tone.

HATCHING - The building up of an effect of tone by a series of close parallel lines. Usually a technique used in etching. See cross-hatching ...

CROSSHATCHING
More than one set of close parallel lines that crisscross each other at angles, to model and indicate tone. Return to top
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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 - 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
Using patterns of parallel, criss-crossing lines to create tones on drawings and engravings. See also HATCHING.

hatching and cross-hatching - Creating tonal or shading effects with closely spaced parallel lines. When more such lines are placed at an angle across the first, it is called cross-hatching.

HATCHING:
Close series of parallel lines that indicate tone and form.
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hatching...Repeated strokes of an art tool producing clustered lines (usually parallel) that create values. In cross -hatching similar lines pass over the hatched lines, following a different direction and usually resulting in darker values.

Crosshatching
Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
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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.

Handmade: Prepared by hand rather than by machine.
Hatching: A series of parallel lines used as shadings in drawings and prints.
Hierogylph: A picture of a figure, animal, or object, standing for a word, syllable, or sound.
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Cross-hatching
A technique for making depths of tone in pen and ink and pencil drawings, also in etching and engraving. Regular lines are drawn in series, first one way and then across each other.

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.

hatching - small, grouped, parallel lines in a drawing or engraving which darken the value of an area
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Hatching - In art, hatching is a drawing or etching process in which tonal effects are achieved by using closely placed parallel lines ...more info ...

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.

Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's form or structure through cell growth and differentiation.

While Klee usually copied the composition, lines and hatching from the drawings, the difference in scale between drawing and transfer sheet, the placement of the drawing on the sheet, ...

Painting for Hartung meant streaking, hatching and brushing until the canvas was thoroughly invaded. He hid, disguised and erased an image until all that was left were the deletions. For Riopelle the picture itself involved no preconceived ideas.

Beginning with the Hmong creation story of the original hatching from the egg of a butterfly to the everyday life of Hmong Americans in St. Paul, Minn., these images paint a history that emphasizes the resilience and determination of a people.

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.

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.

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.

In sculpture, the shaping of a form in some plastic material, such as clay or plaster; in drawing, painting, and printmaking, the rendering of a form, usually by means of hatching or chiaroscuro, to create the illusion of a three-dimensional form.

In a drawing, print or painting, a series of close parallel lines that create the effect of shadow, and therefore contour and three-dimensionality In crosshatching the lines overlap. heraldry (Fr.

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 ...

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