Usage Note
Skizzenblock is a bound or spiral pad of drawing paper used for sketches and studies. Artists carry one for Vorstudien (preparatory studies); the term is common in art-supply contexts.
Examples
"Er trug stets einen kleinen Skizzenblock mit sich, um flüchtige Eindrücke festzuhalten."
Natural Translation
He always carried a small sketchpad to capture fleeting impressions.
Literal Translation
He carried always a small sketch-block with himself, to fleeting impressions to capture.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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