Sentence examples for soft colours from inspiring English sources

We are likely to find soft colours soothing, clutter distracting and high temperatures soporific.

A range of commedia dell'arte characters are vivid creations, distinctive in the restrained use of soft colours and gold.

The one- and two-bedroom villas are decorated in soft colours and have private balconies or patios.

Despite such strong Inca traditions, 18th-century Cuzco painting embodied many of the stylistic features of the European Rococo: small scale, soft colours, doll-like features, and a tender, intimate overall expression.

In its less-flamboyant expressions, the porcelain is of great charm, with bright, soft colours, stippling, and gilt used to advantage; the style is a Spanish version of Louis XVI style.

The Chancay people are not known for great artworks; their pottery, produced from ad 1000 to 1500, is a simple black-on-white ware, usually painted in soft colours, simply defined, and frequently crude in appearance.

The lake, for instance, with new jets sending huge fountains into the air, lit with soft colour.

The figures in his dramatically concentrated compositions are typically half-length and treated with refinement of detail, soft colour, and strong contrasts of light and dark.

In many of his maps, soft colouring combines with highly-contrasting marks to convey a strong sense of the natural landscape.

Pinkish in bud, these open to a flower of a gorgeous soft colour, not quite brown, not quite yellow, freckled in the centre with dark purplish spots.

"If any artist can give us aid and comfort," he wrote, "Helen Frankenthaler can with her great splashes of soft colour on huge square canvases.