Word: crayon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...imaginative Munich playwright named Alois Senefelder discovered that he could print from stone. Searching for an inexpensive way to print his plays, he inscribed the smooth and porous surface with grease or crayon, dampened the stone with water, and then took his impression off on paper. The process, called lithography (literally, writing on stone), was capable of such beautiful reproductions that it was eagerly adopted by painters, among them Degas. Toulouse-Lautrec and Goya, to make cheap but faithful replicas of their original work. Except in artists' circles, Senefelder's stones have long since disappeared. But in print...
...would take too much time. One day. his mother asked him to make a list of some laundry she was about to send out. Almost without thinking, Senefelder wrote the list on a flat piece of limestone that had come from the quarries of Solnhofen. He used an etching crayon of wax. soap and lampblack-and got the idea that he might cover the stone with acid that would eat away the part of the surface not protected by the crayon. It worked, but in the traditional way of relief printing. At length, it occurred to Senefelder that he could...
...even his good eye faded. Thurber sketched and wrote with a black crayon on huge sheets of yellow paper. When the fog became too thick, he stopped sketching and learned, helped by his second wife, Helen, to write by dictation. He kept his courage and improved his prose; The Thirteen Clocks, his delightful tone poem and fairy story, was written when he could...
...appearance at all. In many canvases the once meticulous Miró had left hairs from his brushes imbedded in the paint. What did all this splatter and splutter mean? Plainly, the new Miró was mad at the world, and he was letting his emotions boil over. "I used crayon," says he of some thin colored lines in one painting, "because it was more nervous, Pam! Pam! Pam! Pam! Like a knife!" Commented the weekly France-Observateur sadly: "Disappointed spirits will conclude that this...
...That's right, you're thinking!" cried the professor. Then she rattled into a discourse on the "readiness crayon," which "is to be used only-only on unlined paper . . . if your principal and the people in positions of leadership give you such materials . . . Then you move on to pencil. There are three primary pencils with different circumferences...