Additional scalp advancement can be achieved by incising the galea (the deep fibrous inelastic scalp layer) which allows the scalp to stretch.
He paints by incising the outlines of what he is painting and then wipes away the paint to reveal the canvas underneath.
The first was simply carving and incising lines into the clay mold layer.
The designs were usually simple arrangements of lines, made by incising, engraving, brushing, and punctating, with incising and brushing the most common technique.
The suggestion has been made that the resemblances (which are not complete) are simply due to the limited number of designs possible when incising clay.
Decoration of the clay by incising and painting is found very widely, and was initially geometric, but often included figurative designs from very early on.
Some decoration of the clay was done at this stage by incising, defenstrating, adding shapes, or stamping designs into the wet clay.
With the use of incising, the treatment of these woods has been somewhat successful but with a higher cost and not always satisfactory results.
