Tell her to put the paint-brush and the palette first and her coronet afterward!
She was painting the picture the earl had commissioned, and she took up her brush and palette and worked, while Blair sat at her side, watching her with an admiring wonder, as the skillful hand conveyed the little bushy dell to the canvas.
While he was gone, Margaret took up her palette and brush, and absently began mixing some colors.
The actress spoke sadly and shook her head with such exquisite simulation of melancholy as caused the painter to lay down his palette and roar with laughter.
He is very modern in his harmonies, the favorite colors on his palette being the warmer keys, which are constantly blended enharmonically.
Like Chopin, Loomis is largely occupied in mixing rich new colors on the inexhaustible palette of the piano.
Glass slab and muller, palette knife and brushes for painting.
The slab so made is smoothed with a palette knife, taken up, leather and all, slapped onto the mould, clay side down, and the leather removed.
A palette knife of horn for very delicate colours.
With coarse clay, a fine surface can be imparted with a flexible broad palette knife.
He frowned; he bit his lip; his very manner of holding palette and pencil was annoyed and irritated.
You may lock up the studio; the easel may stand against the wall; pencil or palette your brother will never handle again.
He returned to his studio and fetched out a small panel, with his palette and brushes, and, placing the panel against a window-sill, he began to daub with great gusto.
Felix jumped up, with his palette on his thumb and a movement of the liveliest deprecation.
Felix had laid down his palette and brushes; he was leaning back, with his arms folded, to judge the effect of his work.
It is pleasant to think that the beautiful pictures which now decorate so many walls had their impulse in the little palette of the old botanist.
Miss Palmer wrote to her cousin in Calcutta: "My uncle seems more bewitched than ever with his palette and pencils.
Let the watercolour box have divisions on the edge of the palette for every colour it contains.
We prefer to use the collapsible tubes, as from them any amount of colour may be placed upon the palette ready for use, without the trouble of grinding from the cake or washing up from the moist pan.
It was the time when Rembrandt was in his full strength, saw comprehensively, handled a full paletteof color, and was almost infallibly accurate with his hand.
She wished to stand before her easel, in her Synthesis working-dress, with her palette on her thumb, and a brush in her other hand.
Here, they said, was his palette again, with a tacit invitation to the public to make what it liked of the colors, as children did with the embers on the hearth, or the frost on the window.
His impressionism was somewhat modified; he offered his palette less frequently to the public; he now and then permitted a black object to appear in his pictures; his purples and greens were less aggressive.
Beyond, across the river, the sun, poised on a hill-top, threw from its eternal palette shades of salmon and ochre that tinted an archipelago of slender clouds.
This canvas by Rubens clearly inspired her to the painting of the portrait of herself in a straw hat, where she stands bathed in the sunlight, her palette in her hand.
The clumsy drawing of the hand that holds the paletteis the only defect in this, one of her masterpieces.
Having enriched his palette with a wealth of colors which made him the envy of his cotemporaries, he turned his attention to reviving Oriental styles in hues rivalling those of the East.
What the exact nature of the Havilands' new process and the composition of their palette may be we have not the means of discovering.
These pieces illustrate the fineness of landscape effect and the nicety of touch to which the artist in possession of Haviland's palette can attain.
All that was distinctive of the individual palette and brush vanished under the heat.
Their success here is limited by a palettewhich must be considerably enriched before the effects of the French ware are reached.
He enriched his palette with violet, green, brown, and yellow, and revelled in floral decoration.
A yet richer palette was brought to the decoration of the flat circular bottle (Fig.
That the Impressionists banished black from their palette is significant itself.
The palette was laid upon the table; the colours were placed, though, more frequently, there were no pure colours at all.
It has become the nickname of a definite number of painters, who have adopted a new palette (as suggested by scientific researches) and introduced a new method of laying colours on the canvas.
He had risen, and coming forward took the palette and paint brushes out of her hand; then, receiving no remonstrance, he began to untie the strings of her painting apron.
Jill had dropped her utensils, and the palette lay paint side downwards on the floor.
I was informed that Miss Erskine lives here," he continued, glancing at the paletteand mhalstick in her hand, which in her haste she had forgotten to put down.
He laid aside his palette and brush with a sigh, but Michael had suddenly grown attentive.
There was a peculiar expression in the glance which the young artist riveted upon his friend, while with apparent unconcern he took up his palette and brushes and began to paint again.
The palette with its sheaf of brushes thrust into the thumb-hole lay carelessly in the box of the easel, as Egidio had left it on going to luncheon.
This time the artist looked up, rose from his seat, stretched himself, and waved his palette in the air.
Dignity of form is combined in them with masterly composition in the painting, while the measure of conventionalism necessitated by the limited palette frees this type from the imputation of excessive naturalism.
The widened range of the enamel-painter’s palette made possible a completely naturalistic manner, in which all conventionalism of treatment was abandoned.
Strictly speaking, you might just as well put your ear down to the palette to catch what your colours are saying.
But Margery caught up, as she had often done before, his palette and brushes from the table where he had left them, and fled with them to the door.
Frank got his palette ready and stood brush in hand.
That wasn't a pleasant look on your face when you shouted at me to give you your palette this morning?
He dreamed he went back to the studio, finding everything exactly as he had left it--the portrait turned with its face to the wall, and his brushes and palette where he had laid them down when it had become too dark to paint.
He laid the palette and the dry brushes down, and took a piece of paper and began drawing on it.
If her easel and her palette are not in daily evidence, neither are they altogether banished from the scene; and whatever measure of cunning Penelope's hand possessed in other days, Mrs. Beresford has contrived to preserve.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
