For example scrapers, which may be made by additional removals ( retouching ) to the edge of a piece, or burins, which are created by a burin blow on the tip of a blade which produces a chisel-like edge which may have been used for graving and carving wood or bone.

Mezzotint is known for the luxurious quality of its tones: first, because an evenly, finely roughened surface holds a lot of ink, allowing deep solid colors to be printed ; secondly because the process of smoothing the texture with burin, burnisher and scraper allows fine gradations in tone to be developed.

Mezzotint is known for the luxurious quality of its tones: first, because an evenly, finely roughened surface holds a lot of ink, allowing deep solid colors to be printed ; secondly because the process of smoothing the plate with burin, burnisher and scraper allows fine gradations in tone to be developed.

Goltzius had a malformed right hand from a fire when he was a baby ( his drawing of it is below ), which turned out to be especially well-suited to holding the burin ; " by being forced to draw with the large muscles of his arm and shoulder, he mastered a commanding swing of line ".

Goltzius brought to an unprecedented level the use of the " swelling line ", where the burin is manipulated to make lines thicker or thinner to create a tonal effect from a distance.

At Rome he founded the well-known school in which, as Bartsch tells us, the simple line of Marcantonio was modified by a brilliant touch of the burin, afterwards imitated and perfected by Agostino Carracci in Italy and Nicolaes de Bruyn in the Netherlands.

Like etching, drypoint is easier for an artist trained in drawing to master than engraving, as the technique of using the needle is closer to using a pencil than the engraver's burin.

Engraving using a burin is generally a difficult skill to learn.

Like etching, drypoint is easier for an artist trained in drawing to master than engraving, as the technique of using the needle is closer to using a pencil than the engraver's burin.

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Burin from the French burin meaning " cold chisel " has two specialised meanings for types of tools in English, one meaning a steel cutting tool which is the essential tool of engraving, and the other, in archaeology, meaning a special type of lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which was probably also used for engraving, or for carving wood or bone.

An engraving burin is used predominantly by intaglio engravers, but also by relief printmakers in making wood engravings.

Of note is the 16th century Flemish engraver Hendrik Goltzius, whose malformed hand was ideally suited for the cradling and guiding of a burin.

A flat burin consists of a rectangular face, and is used for cutting away large portions of material at a time.

In the field of lithic reduction, a burin is a special type of lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which prehistoric humans may have used for engraving or for carving wood or bone.

An example of a type of burin diagnostic of the archaeological stratum where they are found is the " Noailles " burin, a small multiple burin characteristic of the Upper Paleolithic cultural stage called the Gravettian, ca.

In his command of the burin, Goltzius is said to rival Dürer.

Edelinck stands above and apart from his predecessors and contemporaries in that he excelled, not in some one respect, but in all respects, that while one engraver attained excellence in correct form, and another in rendering light and shade, and others in giving color to their prints and the texture of surfaces, he, as supreme master of the burin, possessed and displayed all these separate qualities, in so complete a harmony that the eye is not attracted by any one of them in particular, but rests in the satisfying whole.

In wood engraving the technique for working the block is different from woodcut, using an engraver's burin to create very thin delicate lines, and often having large dark areas in the composition, though by no means always.

The lozenge graver is similar to the burin used by copper engravers of Bewick's day, and comes in different sizes ; there are also various sizes of V-shaped graver used for hatching.

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In later life he frequently occupied himself with the burin, publishing, in 1834, a series of outlines from Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, and, in 1840, superintending the issue of a selection of plates from the pictures in Buckingham Palace, one of them, a Titian landscape, being engraved in mezzotint by himself.

He established the system of depicting volume by means of cross-hatching ( lines in two directions ) which was further developed by Dürer, and was the first engraver to curve parallel lines, probably by rotating the plate against a steady burin.

His drawing of the " Finding of Moses ", a work of but slight artistic merit, which introduced portraits of the princess royal of England and other leading ladies of the aristocracy, hit the public taste, and, as reproduced by his burin, sold largely.

The game, however, provides a burin with which the player can " write " a word or phrase on a cube, and thereafter refer to the cube by that inscription.

The goldsmiths of Florence in the middle of the 15th century ornamented their works by means of engraving the metal with a burin, after which they filled up the hollows produced by the burin with a black enamel-like compound made of silver, lead and sulphur.

A diagram of a burin showing its component parts: the handle, shaft, cutting tip and face.

During the same period Dürer trained himself in the difficult art of using the burin to make engravings.

A series of extant drawings show Dürer's experiments in human proportion, leading to the famous engraving of Adam and Eve ( 1504 ), which shows his subtlety while using the burin in the texturing of flesh surfaces.

Engravers use a hardened steel tool called a burin to cut the design into the surface of a metal plate, traditionally made of copper.

A variant of engraving, done with a sharp point, rather than a v-shaped burin.

He worked in many manners, etching, dry point, mezzotint, sand-ground mezzotint, and burin engraving.

Early elongateds were hand engraved with burin gravers, and some are still engraved using this method.

The burin consists of a rounded handle shaped like a mushroom, and a tempered steel shaft, coming from the handle at an angle, and ending in a very sharp cutting face.

The malformed hand of Hendrik Goltzius, which was especially suited to the use of a burin.

A tint burin consists of a square face with teeth, enabling the creation of many fine, closely spaced lines.

Burins exhibit a feature called a " burin spall ", in which toolmakers strike a small flake obliquely from the edge of the burin flake in order to form the graving edge.

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