Leonardo's instructions for shading off a light sky will occur to any one who studies the finelygradated tints mingling with the clouds around the celestial group.
Not a cartoon was sketched in which the lights and shadows were not as gradated and finished as a painting, although they were merely drawn with charcoal.
To approach, or depart, with your point at finely gradated intervals, may be your next exercise, if you find the first unexpectedly easy.
Every line of gradated depth in the plate has to be thus cut eight or ten times over at least, with retouchings to smooth and clear all in the close.
The simpler and more direct work is as good as, and sometimes better than, that with finely gradated colour, shading, and form.
We saw in the fifth Lecture[5] that every visible thing consisted of spaces of color, terminated either by sharp or gradated limits.
One may be too careful in gradating the tints: timidity in this respect prevails too much among modern needlewomen: an artist in floss should not want her work to look like a gradated wash of colour.
And this, in the case of gradated colour, makes the shading softer.
This effect is often seen at the top of the sky in a Japanese landscape print where a dark blue band of colour is printed with a soft edge suddenly gradated to white, or sometimes the plumage of birds is printed with sudden gradations.
But there are cases in which a gradated tone, such as a sky, may need to be printed before the line block.
It is easy in this way to print a very delicately gradated tint from full colour to white.
There is another piece of symbolism in the gradated scale by which he draws attention to the respective dignities of his characters--Christ being the tallest in the picture, the blind man the shortest (A.
The right line is to the curve what monotony is to melody, and what unvaried color is to gradated color.
With some subjects, such as those that have a tolerably level horizon, it is sufficient to cover over part of the sky while printing, leaving that part near the horizon gradated from the horizon into white.
If thought necessary, a sky may be added, as before described, or it may be gradated in the light, allowing the horizon to be lighter than the upper part of the sky.
This is a typical Watteau composition, founded on a rhythmic play of gradated tones and gradated edges.
The brush is placed firmly on the canvas and then dragged from the point lightly away, leaving a gradated tone.
Sidenote: Between Flat and Gradated Tones] What has been said about the balance of straight lines and curves applies equally well to tones, if for straight lines you substitute flat tones, and for curved lines gradated tones.
It is not only in the larger disposition of the masses in a composition that this principle of gradated masses and lost and found edges can be used.
Turner was very fond of these gradated tone compositions, and carried them to a lyrical height to which they had never before attained.
Photo Neurdein] There is some analogy between straight lines and flat tones, and curved lines and gradated tones.
The balance in the finest work is usually on the side of flat tones rather than on the side of gradated tones.
And the graceful charm of curved lines swinging in harmonious rhythm through a composition has its analogy in gradated tones.
Without these steadying influences these compositions of gradated masses would be sickly and weak.
What the difference is in mere beauty between a gradated and ungradated colour, may be seen easily by laying an even tint of rose-colour on paper, and putting a rose leaf beside it.
Having thus obtained the power of laying on a tolerably flat tint, you must try to lay on a gradated one.
You have nothing to do but to put on spaces of red, white, and brown, in the same shape, and gradated from dark to light in the same degrees, and your drawing is done.
In the birch trunk, for instance, the rosy grey must be gradated by the roundness of the stem till it meets the shaded side; similarly the shaded side is gradated by reflected, light.
Widen your band little by little as you get more skilful, so as to give the gradation more lateral space, and accustom yourself at the same time to look for gradated spaces in Nature.
You will find it impossible to separate this idea ofgradated manifestation from that of the vital power.
And (as in other subjects) if you are dissatisfied with your result, always try for more unity and delicacy: if your reflections are only soft and gradated enough, they are nearly sure to give you a pleasant effect.
And now it is both time for you to begin to learn the mechanical use of the brush, and necessary for you to do so in order to provide yourself with the gradatedscale of colour which you will want.
You may often make a simple flat tint, rightly gradated and edged, express a complicated piece of subject without a single retouch.
The difference in mere beauty between a gradated and ungradated colour may be seen by laying an even tint of rose-colour on paper, and putting a rose leaf beside it.
It is not enough, however, that colour should be gradated in painting by being made simply paler or darker at one place than another.
Usually, light and shade are thought of as separate from colour; but the fact is that all nature is seen as a mosaic composed of gradated portions of different colours, dark or light.
Next, here are two examples of the gradated shading expressive of the forms within the outline, by two masters of the chiaroscuro school.
He, on the contrary, affirms that nature makes leaps, that there is a wide gap between minerals and living bodies, that everything is not gradated and shaded into each other.
Compare the gradated colors of the rainbow with the stripes of a target, and the gradual concentration of the youthful blood in the cheek with an abrupt patch of rouge, or with the sharply drawn veining of old age.
In the birch trunk, for instance, the rosy gray must be gradated by the roundness of the stem till it meets the shaded side; similarly the shaded side is gradated by reflected light.
But observe, it is not enough in general that color should be gradated by being made merely paler or darker at one place than another.
Then, supposing your scales properly gradated and equally divided, the compartment or degree No.
Widen your band little by little as you get more skillful, so as to give the gradation more lateral space, and accustom yourself at the same time to look for gradated spaces in Nature.
As soon as you find you have some command of the pen as a shading instrument, and can lay a pale or dark tint as you choose, try to produce gradated spaces like Fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gradated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
