They are thickly spotted and splashed with brownish-red on a light ground.
The plumage is bluish-grey above; while beneath, on the belly, it is crossed with wavy lines on a light ground.
The back is slate-coloured, while breast and belly are marked with black longitudinal stripes on a light ground.
It lays five eggs which have dark markings on a light ground.
The color is brown, the markings dark on a light ground, best shown by the figures.
The males are strongly marked with reddish brown on a light ground.
A middle-sized and light-colored species, with gray markings on a light ground, the markings most distinct on the hinder legs and abdomen.
The abdomen has two rows of gray oblique markings on a light ground.
The older style of figures drawn in outline on a light ground (e.
Where outline, and not flat detail, is wanted, then a light ground is best; the most perfect is a sheet of ground glass with white paper a foot or two below it.
Thus the tendency came into being to make all natural objects either simply light on a dark ground, or dark on a light ground.
Having made this step, the artist varied his procedure by applying the black slip itself as the decoration in bands upon the natural buff colour of the clay, thus giving a decorative scheme of dark design upon a light ground.
A fresco from Hagia Triada represents a curious and elaborate form of dress, consisting apparently of wide trousers of blue material dotted with red crosses on a light ground, and most wonderfully frilled and vandyked.
This may be termed drawing by means of light, and may be contrasted with the opposite method of working by means of black line only on a light ground, or drawing by means of shade (as in B, p.
When the figure or object appears as dark upon a light ground, however, the outline should be within the silhouette, obviously, or its delicate boundary is lost.
The figure of a pattern relieved as light upon a dark plane, as a rule, requires to be fuller in form than dark-figuring upon a light ground.
Or, if the motive were reversed, giving a light ground to the centre, with the pattern dark, the border might be brought out on a dark field.
Of Objects placed on a light Ground, and why such a Practice is useful in Painting.
Lastly, smoke is also to be considered as a semi-transparent medium, which appears to us yellow or reddish before a light ground, but blue before a dark one.
Physiological colours are different in appearance as they happen to fall on a dark or on a light ground.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "light ground" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
