Sentence examples for colour wash from inspiring English sources

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A colour wash is added.

There's certainly plenty of action, orchestrated by fight-movie maestro Yuen Wof-ping, of The Matrix and Crouching Tiger renown, but Wong slathers it with applied stylistic devices: thundering rain, splintering glass, a buttery sepia colour wash and a rather odd repeated motif of sliding slippered feet.

The hair-styling (shave, colour, wash, grow – it's really tactile, and hugely satisfying to just fiddle with) toy was a domestic success, but the team knew that they needed to go beyond Sweden to really guarantee longevity for the Toca Boca brand.

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Bedrooms are cheerfully decorated in checks and colour washes.

As a spectacle, it is ravishing, and made even more so by the dreamy colour washes of Michael Hulls's lighting, in blues, greens, pinks and moonlit silver.

The finale featured long, plunging cross-backed dresses in the palest water colour washes of pink, blue and green organza, and a white gown with beaded leaf design.

"Anoushka Hempel has done very well in her new La Suite hotel," says Choudhry, "by using raised, underlit platforms to define the sleeping and lounging areas, and lighting to create colour washes on the white walls".

Using a combination of pencil and colour washes, he creates an east European world of elaborate gables and snowy streets that adds just the right dose of fancy to the tale.

The illustration style – pencil drawings with colour washes that highlight relevant areas – is one that, with a modest smirk, Roberts calls "almost Leonardo-like".

Her plots are mechanistic and top-heavy with theme; the relentless chatter of the dialogue can seem trite; character is sketched over a water-colour wash.

Bad Dreams was recently covered Melbourne's Wizard Oz, who applies a dreamy-pop filter to TV Colours' washed-out palette of grays.

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