graduating

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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

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

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

The practical principle employed in producing them is important, and consists in the blending and gradating by mixture, while we avoid the compounding of contrasting colours.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas