gradate
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"The windows will gradate, one side will start all white and become gray," Irwin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2014
Still others use it to describe the ombré plaids popular in Western shirts in which two colors gradate from one to the other.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2010
When you can manage to tint and gradate tenderly with the pencil point, get a good large alphabet, and try to tint the letters into shape with the pencil point.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John
From this point the dark and light masses gradate in different directions until they merge above the ships' sails.
From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold
Let the reader take the two extreme tints, and carefully gradate the one into the other.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John
Next, he had to meticulously coat each strand with several gradated shades of gray spray paint to create an image that would only be clearly visible when viewed at a distance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
Two gradated from separate high schools in the Grosse Pointe district: Brian Fraser, president of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and Arielle Anderson.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
The cover art features the two lawyers smiling blondly, superimposed over a baby-blue gradated background that looks a little like a sky.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2021
Some centuries later, Dante’s carefully gradated circles of hell and redemption mirror our own hierarchical obsessions, visible in league tables and the highest-to-lowest function of spreadsheets and e-commerce websites.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2020
To approach, or depart, with your point at finely gradated intervals, may be your next exercise, if you find the first unexpectedly easy.
From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by Ruskin, John
On Gabriel’s wings you can make out every last feather, gently gradating from green to gold to grapefruit pink.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2020
Nearly all expression of form, in drawing, depends on your power of gradating delicately; and the gradation is always most skilful which passes from one tint into another very little paler.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John
Another very effective arrangement may be made by gradating a broad border from a white centre, through clear pinks on either side to bright scarlets, and ending at each extremity with deepest crimsons.
From Roses and Rose Growing by Kingsley, Rose Georgina
Nearly all expression of form, in drawing, depends on your power of gradating delicately; and the gradation is always most skillful which passes from one tint into another very little paler.
From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by Ruskin, John
The swinging lines should vary in thickness along their course, getting darker as they pass certain parts, and gradating into lighter lines at other parts according to the effect desired.
From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold
