Sentence examples for gradations of colour from inspiring English sources

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.

Gradations of colour are obtained by varying the types of lead chromates used as well as by the process of manufacture.

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"!

The normal human eye can detect about 130 gradations of colour in the visible spectrum (as in the rainbow), about 20 barely noticeable differences within a given colour, and about 500 variations of brightness.

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.

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.