Stipple
In etching and engraving, a method of rendering tone by means of dots and short strokes.
Stipple Engraving: Rather than etching lines, the design in this method of printmaking is created by applying large numbers of incised dots to the plate's surface, similar to pointillism in painting.
STIPPLE - (prints & drawings) An intaglio printing process in which the design to be printed is composed of groups of dots rather than lines, resulting in areas of tone. Stipple may be accomplished by engraving or etching.
Stipple
In painting, to apply small dots of color with the point of the brush; also to apply paint in a uniform layer by tapping a vertically held brush on the surface in repeated staccato touches.
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An example of stipple work:
Edward Savage (American, 1761-1817), Liberty in the Form of the Goddess of Youth: Giving Support to the Bald Eagle, 1796, stipple engraving on cream laid paper, Worcester Art Museum, MA. See allegory.
Like the works by its senior members - Lovis Corinth, Max Liebermann, and Max Slevogt - Beckmann's paintings from this period are characterized by the legacy of Impressionism, with landscapes and beach scenes rendered in stippled brushstrokes to ...
Even if the gold leaf background is finely stippled, it fails to create an illusion of three-dimensional space. Gold leaf shining on a picture's surface reflects the light in the viewer's space, rather than the imaginary light within the painting.
In 1910 and 1911 they used the techniques of Divisionism, breaking light and color down into a field of stippled dots and stripes, which had been originally created by Giovanni Segantini and others.
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.
stippling - A drawing technique consisting of many small dots or flecks to construct the image; obviously, this technique can be very laborious, so generally small images are stippled.
Later he developed "videorotors", stippled with brilliant fluorescent colour, rotating and still further animated by the play of ultraviolet and stroboscopic light upon them.
Intaglio - The method of printing used for metal plates worked as Engraving, Etching, Drypoints, Mezzotints, Stipples and Aquatints.
In 1802 he became head of a school for engravers in Lisbon. Through mastery of stipple and crayon and allied techniques B. achieved great softness and luminosity of effect; this together with his elegant tenderness assured him great popularity.
Figures are occasionally shaded to suggest the roundness of the animal, stippled to indicate the texture of its pelt, and even drawn on a natural protrusion of the rock surface to give its form more fullness.
The gilt-bronze mounts, such as the four female busts emerging gracefully from this table's corners, reveal the finest modeling and hand-finishing. Details of the women's faces and lace caps were engraved or chased with stippled, shimmering textures.
a color; in printing terminology, tone is opposed to line. It refers to non-linear techniques, such as wash or paint, etc., and its interpretation into prints is effected by the tonal processes, e.g. aquatint, brush etching, dotted manner, stipple.
Also, a unit of weight measurement in Britain is a stone: equal to 14 pounds (6.4 kilograms). Also see carving, chisel, gem, glyptics, igneous rock, living rock, metamorphic rock, mortar, mosaic, sculpture, sedimentary rock, statue, stipple, ...
stipple - to paint, draw or engrave with small flecks or dots rather than with lines or broad color areas
stretcher bar - framework upon which a canvas is attached to be painted ...
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