palette

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Picking out colors for a palette is a very good idea, even at the first stages of a painting.

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  1. noun A board, typically with a hole for the thumb, which an artist can hold while painting and on which colors are mixed.
  2. noun The range of colors used in a particular painting or by a particular artist: a limited palette.
  3. noun The range of qualities inherent in nongraphic art forms such as music and literature.

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  • The concealers in this palette are all creamy and comfortable going on. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • We spent so much time in the brown devastated wastes that using a different colour palette was a welcome change. —  Gamersyde
  • Each of these compact squares fit easily into the 6 pan palette, which is so affordable, at just $10. —  Beautiful Makeup Search
  • Personally, I find it revolting and sickly sweet, then again, I used to neck Hungarian bulls blood and still don†™ t mind a bottle of Montelpulciano d'Abruzzo so I presume my palette is far from refined. —  Toytown Germany - Germany feed
  • It must be treated as a complement only - it adds tension to the palette, and it's too aggressive when overused. —  The Daily Whim
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  1. French, from Old French, small potter's shovel, diminutive of pale, shovel, spade, from Latin pāla; see pag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also pallet, palet; from French palette, a flat tool for spreading things, a saucer, a slab for colors. Old French also paellette, paelete = Provencal Spanish Portuguese paleta, from Italian paletta, a flat blade, a spatula, palette, diminutive of pala, a spade, from Latin pala, a spade: see pale.
 

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