stipple

verbs

engrave by means of dots and flicks
stipple
domain category
the creation of beautiful or significant things
"art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
art, artistic creation, artistic production
is a type of (narrower)
carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block
"engrave a letter"
engrave, etch
make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink
stipple
is derived from
stippler
domain category
the creation of beautiful or significant things
"art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
art, artistic creation, artistic production
is a type of (narrower)
make a painting
"he painted all day in the garden"; "He painted a painting of the garden"
paint
apply (paint) in small dots or strokes
stipple
is derived from
stippler
is a type of (narrower)
make a painting
"he painted all day in the garden"; "He painted a painting of the garden"
paint
produce a mottled effect
"The sunlight stippled the trees"
speckle, stipple