Sentence examples for colour artists from inspiring English sources

Long before Hiorns used copper sulphate to make colour, artists got a green called "verdigris" by scraping the oxidation off copper and bronze.

In his book Chromophobia, Batchelor makes the distinction between what he calls "digital colour" (commercial paints that come out of a tin) and "analogical colour" (artists' paints that come out of a tube).

In his book, Chromophobia, the British artist David Batchelor makes the interesting distinction between what he calls "digital colour" (commercial paint) and "analogical colour" (artists' paints that comes out of a tube).

The experience of colour as we usually understand it is a visual one: objects have colour, artists use colour, and we can recall a colour in our mind's eye.

By 1891 A. Farsari & Co. had 32 employees, 19 of whom were hand-colouring artists.

The uncompromising severity of his floating rectangles of colour awed artists and critics alike.

Dennis Nothdruft, curator of the Fashion and Textile Museum, says: "In the 90s, the most popular colour for artists and their studios was grey".

Rejecting earlier painting methods of reproducing effects of light with tonal contrasts and broken pigment colour, some artists made use of neon tubes and mirrors.

Although, basically, the Impressionists were concerned with the creation of light through colour, several artists identified with them made major contributions to printmaking.

Living things like orchids, hummingbirds, and the peacock's tail have abstract designs with a beauty of form, pattern and colour that artists struggle to match.

It doesn't matter what colour the artist is - it's about the genre of music.