color-key
Americanverb (used with object)
Example Sentences
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Then, if the shade has been pretty even, and your canvas has had a fair light, you will get a fairly good color-key.
From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
It was a scene of infinite calm, low in color-key, peaceful in composition, the curve of purple and lavender beach unbroken, the crest of dark palms unmoved, "like a Turk verse along a scimitar."
From The Cruise of the Kawa by George S. (George Shepard) Chappell
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