The word 'stipple' is correct and commonly used in written English.
'Stipple' can be used as a verb to mean "to create a pattern or texture by using small dots or marks." Example: The artist expertly stippled the canvas, creating a beautiful and intricate design. It can also be used as a noun to refer to the technique or pattern created by stippling. Example: The stipple on the vase gave it a unique and interesting texture.
The dotting of the plate with short jabs of the burin, common from the late 15th century, evolved in the late 17th and 18th centuries into the techniques of stipple engraving and crayon manner (also called chalk-manner, or pastel-manner, engraving).
The only artist of any importance to use pure stipple engraving was Giulio Campagnola in the 16th century.
The first step in stipple engraving was to etch in the outlines of the design with fine dots made either with needles or with a roulette, a small wheel with points.
To reproduce the fashionable paintings of the day, commercial engravers perfected a whole arsenal of reproduction techniques, such as mezzotint, stipple engraving and etching, and crayon manner.
The brush strokes, the way they stipple and turn about themselves, suggest sea.
Chéret, however, worked directly on the stone, using spirited brush lines, crosshatch, stipple, soft watercolour-like washes, and areas of flat colour to create a dynamic image.
"Birthday Party," by Katharine Brush, March 16, 1946 Suggested by Henry Finder, Editorial Director Brush's short story is a stipple-portrait of embarrassment and cruelty in three brief paragraphs — and Lydia Davis wasn't even born yet.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet "Birthday Party," by Katharine Brush, March 16, 1946 Suggested by Henry Finder, Editorial Director Brush's short story is a stipple-portrait of embarrassment and cruelty in three brief paragraphs — and Lydia Davis wasn't even born yet.
Medical illustration developed hand-in-brush with the disciplines and methods of easel painting, so it's no surprise to see here the same stippling and chiaroscuro that, in other contexts, would be used to make the sylvan silvery or the steed puissant.
Textured boards with a prepared pattern or stippling are also available.
Ticciati's vivid stippling and pointing of textures was less successful in Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.
