Word: pasteles
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...them in his creations. He uses a now technique which he calls his monograph medium on some of his pictures. On others he uses the air-brush, brought into the public eye by George Petty of "Esquire" fame. These techniques combined with a now method of employing pastel colors produce amassingly well-excented sketches...
...North American College, interpreting. To Pius XI, Mr. Smith offered a ten-inch gold model of the Empire State Building, volunteering the dimensions of his skyscraper when the Holy Father confessed that he had never ascended a structure higher than the Eiffel Tower. The Pope presented a silver-framed pastel of himself autographed "Toto corde benedicens,"- a pearl rosary and a relic of the Little Flower to Mrs. Smith, and a Good Shepherd medal to both...
...veil of tulle embroidered with the silver roses of Lippe-Biesterfeld, her train 18 feet long carried by four chil dren, and her sash of orange blossoms sent by loyal Dutchmen who grow oranges in Italy. The twelve bridesmaids were in six pairs, each pair dressed in a differing pastel color to produce a soft "rainbow effect" desired by the Crown Princess. She tripped over a cushion just as she was about to sit down in one of the two "bridal chairs" - there is no altar in a Dutch church - but Prince Bernhard kept his bride from falling, and later...
...gold-laced aspirant in the French Navy. In sporting pictures there was the vividly painted False Start lent by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. For print collectors there was the fine etching of Degas friend and pupil, Mary Cassatt in the Louvre. For balletomanes there were half a dozen pastel studies of the saucy, bandy-legged little dancing girls on which Degas fame chiefly rests...
...experiments with broken light of Monet and Pissarro. All Degas' famed sporting pictures were painted in his studio from rapid pencil sketches. Though one of the greatest of figure painters, he despised women. "Little rats" was his favorite term for the ballet dancers who posed for his great pastel studies, and he seemed to take a malicious delight in twisting them into uncomfortable postures...