How To Use Bistre In A Sentence
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They were mezzotinted to imitate the bistre drawings.
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The colors on French colonial stamps are often brilliant and in unusual combinations: fuchsia and turquoise, blue and orange, purple and bistre.
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Conté sticks and pencils are available in a wide range of colours including the traditional black, white, sepia, bistre and sanguine.
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Thoughts of the elmy fields and the bistre furrows of Elstree and the tasselled coppices of Tours crowded Burton's brain; and he wrote:
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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According to Bouvier, a colour similar to that of bistre, and rivalling asphaltum in transparency, is produced by partially charring a moderately dark Prussian blue; neither one too intense, which gives a heavy and opaque brownish-red, nor one too aluminous and bright, which yields a feeble and yellowish tint.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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Since he used to meet her in the house of the Rue Cassini, she had grown stout, and now had a double chin; but her hair was still unbleached, and her bistre complexion preserved its tinge as of old.
Balzac
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The chin-lines were sharpened, the eyes more sunken, while the shadows beneath them were as dark as though they were plastered on with bistre.
Maurice Guest
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Conté sticks and pencils are available in a wide range of colours including the traditional black, white, sepia, bistre and sanguine.
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Viewed from the harbour, it is a long line of buildings, whose painful whiteness is set off by a sky-like cobalt and a sea-like indigo; behind it lies the flat, here of a bistre-brown, there of a lively tawny; whilst the background is formed by dismal Radhwah,
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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Several other browns, and ochrous earths, partake of a citrine hue, such as Cassel Earth, Bistre, &c.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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Reddish-brown, marone, bistre with a golden light in it, suited her to perfection.
The Commission in Lunacy
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His drawings are generally in pen outline, with a wash of bistre, or other warm colour; sometimes he makes use of black and red chalk; they are seldom finished with colours, but have often portions rendered lighter and broader by means of a wash of white.
Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.
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She takes you through the bistre drawing underpainting, underpainting glazes and finally the opaque application of paint, and explanation of the ebauche technique that Bouguereau practiced.
News
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Various brown inks, principally solutions of bistre and sepia, were adopted in sketching by Claude, Rembrandt, and many of the old masters.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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We're victims, we say: mere vessels, drinking the vanilla scent of this one's skin, the lustre of another's eyes so skilfully darkened with bistre.
Archive 2004-12-01
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Kremer bistre ink is made to an original recipe and has a deep transparent brown colour.
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The color of bistre varies with the wood from which the soot was derived, but in general it has a warm, transparent brown tone.
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By little and little, the surface of the plate takes a yellow tint, which darkens more and more, approaching to bistre.
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The color of bistre varies with the wood from which the soot was derived, but in general it has a warm, transparent brown tone.
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By little and little, the surface of the plate takes a yellow tint, which darkens more and more, approaching to bistre.
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The colors on French colonial stamps are often brilliant and in unusual combinations: fuchsia and turquoise, blue and orange, purple and bistre.
