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
Nay, I think it may even be a question whether we ought not to resolve that the line should never gradate itself at all, but terminate quite bluntly!
From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin
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 John Ruskin
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 Harold Speed
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
Makepeace has a background as a sculptor, and he uses gradated color deftly to suggest curving, 3-D forms and the play of light across the telescope’s complex components.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2021
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
The simpler and more direct work is as good as, and sometimes better than, that with finely gradated colour, shading, and form.
From Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie
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 skillful which passes from one tint into another very little paler.
From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by John Ruskin
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 Thomas Salter
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 Harold Speed
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 Rose Georgina Kingsley
