| 单词 |
dead colour |
| 释义 |
ˈdead ˌcolour Painting.
[dead a. 13 b.]
The first or preparatory layer of colour in a painting. So ˈdead-ˌcolour v. trans., to paint in dead colour; ˈdead-ˌcolouring vbl. n.
1658W. Sanderson Graphice 63 First to speak of dead-colours. 1672in H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (1786) III. 128, 5 June, Dr. Tillotson sat..to Mr. Lely for him to lay in a dead colour of his picture. 1788Sir J. Reynolds Disc. xiv. (1876) 94 That lightness of hand which was in his dead colour, or first painting. c1843H. Greenough in Flagg Life W. Allston (1893) 182 This dead color I paint solidly, with a good body of color.
1658W. Sanderson Graphice 64 Pictures by a good Master, begun, and dead-coloured only. 1668Excellency of Pen & Pencil 82 In this Dead-colouring you need not be over curious..the colours may be mended at the second Operation. Ibid. 101 For a light-red Garment, first dead-colour it with Vermilion. c1790J. Imison Sch. Art. II. 58 After the student has covered over, or as artists term it, has dead-coloured the head. 1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 230 The Dead-colouring is the first or preparatory painting, and is so termed because the colours are laid cold and pale to admit of the after-paintings. |
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