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Example sentences for "colour painting"

  • In the latter part of her career Kate Greenaway modified her manner of water-colour painting, mainly with the view to obtaining novelty of effect and conquering public approval.

  • Their ready independent sale encouraged her to elaborate her little pictures, and her election as Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours confirmed her in the decision to turn her attention to pure water-colour painting.

  • Water-colour painting is in one sense the most ancient mode of pictorial art.

  • In spite of the marked progress of water-colour painting, there was as yet no adequate accommodation for the exhibition of drawings produced in that mode.

  • From a Water-colour Painting by Peter De Wint, in the South Kensington Museum.

  • From a Water-colour Painting by Frederick Mackenzie, in the South Kensington Museum.

  • In water-colour painting, cobalt is tolerably firm on paper, and consequently answers better for some purposes than French blue.

  • Its use is confined to water-colour painting, in which it was much employed by the old masters for tinting drawings and shading sketches, before the general application of Indian ink to such purposes.

  • NEW BLUE Is confined to water-colour painting, and is an artificial ultramarine, holding a middle position between French blue and permanent blue, being less deep than the one and less pale than the other.

  • As it has already been stated, he was the pioneer in exalting water-colour painting to a fine art.

  • John Sell Cotman, a member of the Norwich School, was another pioneer who did much for the advancement of water-colour painting.

  • Chrome Yellows are all chromates of lead, and they darken very quickly in an impure atmosphere, especially when used in water-colour painting.

  • It is not advisable to paint these in a similar way to the ordinary water-colour painting.

  • Verdigris is, of course, a notoriously fugitive colour, but while in ordinary water-colour painting it would probably not be safe to use, it would last fairly well in books.

  • It is fairly permanent and works well in water-colour, but is not quite so satisfactory in body-colour painting.

  • John Robert Cozens, "the greatest genius who ever painted a landscape," had been the first to occupy himself with water-colour painting as understood in the modern sense.

  • On English Water-Colour Painting: Cosmo Monkhouse: The Earlier English Water-Colour Painters.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    afternoon service; before this; came again; colour drawing; colour drawings; colour from; colour sketch; coloured clothes; coloured flowers; coloured glass; coloured hair; coloured people; coloured silk; coloured silks; colouring matter; colourless liquid; considered merely; eight thousand; foreign devil; free trade; its object; leaves more; rebel soldiers; shall judge; strongly fortified; then stopped