On the table on the left-hand side of the base-board, and slightly in front of theeasel, is placed a shaving mirror upon its stand.
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The coucher's main tool was a stack of hairy felts, which he rested on a smalleasel.
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The amount of light from the reflector can be regulated by varying the distance of the reflector from theeasel.
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They even manage briefly to capture the attention of the busied copy artists and painters, who push aside their easels to take in the procession.
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This reflector is to be inclined at such an angle as will secure uniform lighting of the whole of the opening in theeasel.
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The object of the square mirror on the base-board is to light the head of the insect which, as already emphasised, should always be arranged upon theeaselhead downwards.
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If one is travelling with an artist'seasel, that could be put in with the luggage, though strictly speaking it is not a case.
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It really needs a blackboard andeaselto make it perfectly plain.
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I am, however, arrang- ing for the use of the easels to be discontinued.
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It is said you are going to enforce it in theeaselof omnibuses and chars-a-bancs by a timetable.
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If one used a blackboard, one had to prop it up, because using aneaselwould make it too formal.
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The offender is strapped to an apparatus, known as a triangle, which is like a great blackboardeasel.
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The comparison in painting is between the big public statement—the religious paintings in the churches or the statues in the square— and theeaselpainting for the home.
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I recollect that my wife taught at a progressive school in that period, and she was told that one could not possibly have a blackboard andeasel.
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Her works includeeaselpaintings, drawings and theatre decoration, as well as fashion and interior design.
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