The artist then draws through the ground with a pointed etching needle.

Does it really make sense that the same race would use sledge hammers and etching needles?

I work with a diamond tipped etching needle and a magnifying glass.

The design is then drawn on the black ground with a sharp point or "etching needle" to reveal the bright metal below.

Using an etching needle, or a similar tool, the image is engraved into the ground, revealing the plate underneath.

In his later years Matisse developed the practice of reading poetry early each day before he raised a paint brush, pencil or etching needle.

When the cold made it impractical to work outdoors with an etching needle, oils or watercolors, he turned to pastels, completing 90.

Soon the soft shading of the litho crayon replaced the hard bite of the etching needle, and caricature became housebroken.

He strove with words as he strove with brush, pen, or etching needle to give the public equal sensations.

Some of the best hand carving equipment are an etching needle, a selection of small files, and a miniature carving tool designed for soapstone.

His skill at drawing and use of the etching needle allowed him to shift at will from tight, meticulous rendering to a flowing freedom of line.

These are always engravers' lines, such as may be made naturally with the burin, and they never imitate the freer line of the pencil or etching needle.

The outline is drawn out in small dots with an etching needle, and the darker areas of the image shaded with a pattern of close dots.

Each of the hundreds - thousands? - of the image's graph-paper squares has been gouged with an etching needle on a copper plate by the artist's own hand.

The artist then scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needle where he or she wants a line to appear in the finished piece, so exposing the bare metal.

An "echoppe" point can be made from an ordinary tempered steel etching needle, by grinding the point back on a carborundum stone, at a 45-60 degree angle.

He drew in pencil on paper, but also with an etching needle on copper and zinc plates that had been prepared with hard or soft wax-based grounds.

Whether working with pencil and watercolor, pen and ink or an etching needle, Mr. Cober is ever the rigorous draftsman but with a highly subjective approach.

This particular characteristic at once establishes a wide separation between it, and all the other instruments employed in the arts of design, such as pencils, brushes, pens, and etching needles.

The plates, which were drawn by Bourdon himself, were created using the etching needle and the burin on copperplate and are signed by the engraver Daniel Le Bossu (fl.

While he looked down on Washington Square Park in the snow, where tree branches tentatively fanned out like experiments with an etching needle, he waited for two tiny walking figures whose silhouettes would make a merely pretty landscape light up and sing.

As well as etching needles, the etched part of steel engravings made great use of roulettes, small wheels mounted in handles which have regular sharp projections which produce broken lines of dots and dashes when rolled across the plate.

To make an etching an artist coats a metal plate with an acid-resistant layer, or ground, of either wax or varnish and then draws through the ground with an etching needle, much as one would with a pen or pencil.

He also used a special etching needle called an échoppe to produce swelling lines like those created by the burin in an engraving, and also reinforced the etched lines with a burin after biting; which soon became common practice among etchers.

For decorative applications, this is often done by hand through the use of a scribing knife, etching needle or similar tool; modern industrial applications may involve an operator scribing with the aid of a template or use computer numerical control to automate the process.