Sentence examples for gradation of colour from inspiring English sources

The characteristic stitch is variously called Florentine, cushion, or, in allusion to the flamelike gradation of colour, flame stitch; its 17th-century name was Hungarian stitch.

Teeth are typically composed of a number of colours and a gradation of colour occurs in an individual tooth from the gingival margin to the incisal edge of the tooth.

In the very struggle of its failing breath of life, first a red, then a pale tint suffuses it, and its scales change hue, and between life and death there is a gradation of colour into subtle shades....See how the red becomes inflamed, more brilliant than any vermilion!

He achieved this with different elements such as skylights, windows, shutters and blinds; a notable case is the gradation of colour used in the atrium of the Casa Batlló to achieve uniform distribution of light throughout the interior.

It is also realistic and concrete, because that is what the sky looks like sometimes – pure solid colour or a gradation of colours.

This effort led them in the 1880s to produce lineless cloisonné enamels, which have all the beauty and brilliance of true cloisonné, with thick layers of enamel colours, but which, showing no trace of cloisons, permit a gradation of colours as in the less clear and brilliant painted enamels.

As printing was done by hand, printers were able to achieve effects impractical with machines, such as the blending or gradation of colours on the printing block.

Watercolours such as "Comedy" (1921) combine subtle gradations of colour with amusingly surreal creatures.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour.

The solution, he argues, is to use gradations of colour along the walls to reinforce the visual sense of movement.

Thrill to the lifetime of experience he brings to describing the gradations of colour on a vase as "a moving colour target within one item"!