Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.
Brighten White Paint [170] Add aluminum bronze to a white or light paint that is to be used for lettering on a dark ground.
In the first place, dark ground-colours can be of use to a species otherwise than as means of adaptation.
This is the occurrence of dark ground-colours in adult larvæ which are of light colours in their young condition.
Half grown larvæ of Bombyx Rubi likewise possess golden yellow (but narrower) transverse rings on a dark ground, and they are much more hairy than those of E.
Any/ thing white will appear whiter, by being opposed to a dark ground; and, on the contrary, darker upon a light ground.
And any flat body, adjacent to a white surface, will appear very dark; but upon a dark ground it will appear lighter than any other part, though the lights be equal.
To/ give a great effect to figures, you must oppose to a light one a dark ground, and to a dark figure a light ground, contrasting white with black, and black with white.
The letters of the inscription are scratched out of a dark ground of enamel.
This is the invariable method used in early glass, which indeed is always (except in grisaille, of which more later) conceived as a light design on a dark ground.
There is also the method of representing form in relief by means of working with white line only upon a dark ground, the modelling and planes of surface being entirely expressed in this way (as in A, p.
They should be examined by a moderately oblique light, or most of the cilia are apt to be rendered invisible, and also by dark ground illumination.
Another mode of dark ground illumination is by employing an elegant instrument called a parabolic illuminator, which need not be described.
Had this been so, the ground itself would have lost its brilliancy, and it would have followed that a dark ground, equally absorbent, would have answered the purpose as well.
Titian's best pictures are not painted on a dark ground.
It is vivid, distinct, and powerful; but it is most especially powerful when a luminous object is shown on a dark ground, which may be contrived in various ways.
We place before us the simplest object, a light disk on a dark ground (A).
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