stipple
IPA: stˈɪpʌɫ
noun
- (painting) The use of small dots that give the appearance of shading; the dots thus used.
verb
- (transitive) To use small dots to give the appearance of shading to.
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Examples of "stipple" in Sentences
- For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
- Glass is a master of "stipple" portraits, a technique using tiny dots to simulate facial contours, color and shading.
- Ridley, William (1764 – 1838): one of the leading engravers of the time, Ridley stipple-engraved many portraits, including
- But while the paper's world-class reporting has propelled the Journal brand, it's the stipple drawing, pioneered by Journal artists 30 years ago, that has become a trademark.
- Wall Street Journal artist Noli Novak Brian Aguilar walks through the history of the WSJ's beloved stipple drawings and has the paper's artists explain how the so-called hedcuts are made.
- Everything from a 1989 Wall Street Journal stipple drawing of Martha Stewart to Andrew Tift's hyperrealist black-and - white painting of author Cormac McCarthy, right, will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery's "Americans Now" exhibit.
- Loveliness, and so on, which appeared last year "; and his description of the annuals 'composite art sounds much like a description of" Verses "and its accompanying engraving:" A large weak plate, done in what we believe is called the stipple style of engraving [the stippling in Georgiana.
- The colors can be mixed together or left separate ... it can be applied with a watercolor brush, stipple brush or stamping sponge and works great with pigment inks (think craft ink pads), embossing or VersaMark Inks. It can also be mixed with Lumiere (another former Stampin 'Up product) for a cool shimmery effect.
- Now, stipple is of course such an easy method that, like all easy methods, it runs to flamboyance; when people have a chance to express themselves they are apt to make all that is inside and that is outside of themselves in one form or another flamboyant, grandiose, and sometimes ridiculously so; but other times it is the expression of the most beautiful things in architecture, especially from the French schools, that one could imagine.
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