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2. Georges Seurat - Wikipedia

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   Seurat was born on 2 December 1859 in Paris, at 60 rue de Bondy (now rue René Boulanger). The Seurat family moved to 136 boulevard de Magenta (now 110 boulevard de Magenta) in 1862 or 1863. [9] His father, Antoine Chrysostome Seurat, originally from Champagne, was a former legal official who had become wealthy from speculating in property, and ...

3. Crayon - Wikipedia

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   Crayon. A colorful selection of crayons. A crayon (or wax pastel) is a stick of pigmented wax used for writing or drawing. Wax crayons differ from pastels, in which the pigment is mixed with a dry binder such as gum arabic, and from oil pastels, where the binder is a mixture of wax and oil. Crayons are available in a range of prices, and are ...

4. Pencil - Wikipedia

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   Painted body. Ferrule. Eraser. A pencil ( / ˈpɛnsəl / ⓘ) is a writing or drawing implement with a solid pigment core in a protective casing that reduces the risk of core breakage, and keeps it from marking the user's hand . Pencils create marks by physical abrasion, leaving a trail of solid core material that adheres to a sheet of paper or ...

5. Hand-colouring of photographs - Wikipedia

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   Hand-colouring of photographs. A hand-coloured daguerreotype by J. Garnier, c. 1850. Hand-colouring (or hand-coloring) refers to any method of manually adding colour to a monochrome photograph, generally either to heighten the realism of the image or for artistic purposes. [1] Hand-colouring is also known as hand painting or overpainting.

6. Conté - Wikipedia

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   Conté. Conté ( French pronunciation: [kɔ̃te] ), also known as Conté sticks or Conté crayons, are a drawing medium composed of compressed powdered graphite or charcoal mixed with a clay base, square in cross-section. They were invented in 1795 by Nicolas-Jacques Conté, who created the combination of clay and graphite in response to the ...

7. Lithography - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Lithography (from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos) 'stone', and γράφω (gráphō) 'to write') [1] is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. [2] The printing is from a stone ( lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German author ...