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Notebook, 1993-

MATERIALS & METHODS

Drawing

Stylus
(or style) - A pointed metal instrument, usually of iron, used to make indented marks on a surface. Originally used in Classical times for writing on wax tablets, it later served many other purposes: to incise the ornament on gold grounds, rule the lines for a manuscript, or trace the outlines of a composition from the cartoon on to the plaster in fresco painting or engraving. It was much used for the perspective lines, and other lines of measurement and guidance, in achitectural drawings, and for squaring up compositions.

[Chilvers, Ian, Harold Osborne, and Dennis Farr, eds. Oxford Dictionary Of Art. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.]

















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