Sentences with phrase «variations of a single colour»

Painters have often used variations of a single colour as underpainting before applying opaque body - colour or layers of more or less translucent glazes.

Not exact matches

Further analysis revealed that a single - letter change in the gene accounted for 46 per cent of the population's hair colour variation, with the blonde allele being recessive to the dark hair allele.

However by the early 1970s paintings had evolved into variations of a single format — a rectangle of a flatly painted colour surrounded by a border of a different, darker hue — to convey introspective moods through the precise meeting of light and dark, the juncture of two colours in a particular proportional relationship.