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Farbverläufe

English translation: blending colors

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German term or phrase:Farbverläufe
English translation:blending colors
Entered by: Kim Metzger

03:44 Apr 13, 2002
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / painting
German term or phrase: Farbverläufe
From an article about painting: "Man arbeitet mit vielen Schichten dünner Ölfarbe. Man kann das Gemälte modellieren, indem man es ganz langsam dahin bringt, wo man es haben will, anstatt mit einem Pinselstrich gleich die richtige Farbe hinzusetzen. Die Farbverläufe werden natürlich auch ganz anders." I've been told it refers to how the different colors run into one another or blend, but what is the specific technical term in painting for this?
John Bishop
United States
Local time: 23:20
blending the colors
Explanation:
This is from a site I found on painting. I think it applies to your situation.
"Some people prefer to use oil based paint, but the water based works just as well. Try to get a paint that won't dry too quickly because one of the techniques, which make folk painting special, is the blending of the colors. The paintbrush should be of high quality and you should have one medium sized and one small sized brush. To start off with the painting, you should probably try to follow some sort of pattern."

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color blends
http://www.rassouli.com/artist.htm

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You will also learn what paints and dyes to use. With LaMarr\'s guidance you will have an opportunity to work with wet and dry materials, the art of mixing and blending colors on canvas to achieve the right look.
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Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 22:20
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The answers with 'blend' seem to fit my context the best. I haven't yet seen a definitive account of whether this is the technical term used in painting theory, but as the job is the translation of a more informal conversation about painting that probably doesn't matter so much. 'Color shift,' as defined at the reference provided, definitely does not fit the context. 'Blending' seems preferable to the remaining suggestions. Thanks to all who answered.
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Summary of answers provided
5colour shift (US); color shift (US)
Sven Petersson
4blending the colors
Kim Metzger
4fading (into)
Roland Grefer
4distribution, course, run
Uschi (Ursula) Walke
4colour gradients
Endre Both
4"Color-blends"
brute (X)


  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
blending the colors


Explanation:
This is from a site I found on painting. I think it applies to your situation.
"Some people prefer to use oil based paint, but the water based works just as well. Try to get a paint that won't dry too quickly because one of the techniques, which make folk painting special, is the blending of the colors. The paintbrush should be of high quality and you should have one medium sized and one small sized brush. To start off with the painting, you should probably try to follow some sort of pattern."

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Note added at 2002-04-13 04:17:23 (GMT)
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color blends
http://www.rassouli.com/artist.htm

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Note added at 2002-04-13 04:24:50 (GMT)
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You will also learn what paints and dyes to use. With LaMarr\'s guidance you will have an opportunity to work with wet and dry materials, the art of mixing and blending colors on canvas to achieve the right look.


Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 22:20
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 80
Grading comment
The answers with 'blend' seem to fit my context the best. I haven't yet seen a definitive account of whether this is the technical term used in painting theory, but as the job is the translation of a more informal conversation about painting that probably doesn't matter so much. 'Color shift,' as defined at the reference provided, definitely does not fit the context. 'Blending' seems preferable to the remaining suggestions. Thanks to all who answered.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Roland Grefer: While you blend colors with each other prior to applying the paint, on the canvas they will fade into each other.
13 mins
  -> True, I'm no specialist in painting. But it would seem that a painter can achieve color blends on the canvas as well.
agree  brute (X)
7 hrs
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
fading (into)


Explanation:
While you blend colors with each other prior to applying the paint, on the canvas they will fade into each other.

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The effect itself is called fading.

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The effect itself is called fading.

Roland Grefer
Local time: 00:20
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Kim Metzger: And the noun?
3 mins
  -> It's a verb as well as a noun: http://www.wordsmyth.net/cgi-bin/search.cgi?matchent=fading&...
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
colour shift (US); color shift (US)


Explanation:
Implicit in answer. Please see reference!


    Reference: http://www.drublair.com/buffer.html
Sven Petersson
Sweden
Local time: 06:20
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
distribution, course, run


Explanation:
I'm not sure about the proper word.

I paint mainly in water colours, where colours bond, blend, run into each other. (that sounds what you have been told).
It doesn't work with oil paints. I just tried. I put two stripes (red and green) on a piece of paper, dropped some linseed oil on it, but the paint won't bond, blend or run.

This might be about being able to put a bit of pink, white and red on a green background (thinking of flower petals) , keeping some transluciency, by using diluted paints? Without a built-up?

Good Luck,
HTH



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Correction !!!!
Another experiment: oil paints do run with the help of distilled turpentine or any turps, I guess.
So,
Merging of colours, Colours merging might be the answer. My test-paper was good enough to be framed, now you should see it. Sorry :OX)

Uschi (Ursula) Walke
Local time: 14:20
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
colour gradients


Explanation:
Might not fit you context, however.

Refs:
"easy to draw with pastels because colour gradients are easier to achieve"

"All the colour gradients were achieved through wet-into-wet painting in gouache"


    Reference: http://www.geocities.com/nick_murdoch/artwork.html
    Reference: http://www.animation-backgrounds.com/features/bcarp1x.html
Endre Both
Germany
Local time: 06:20
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in HungarianHungarian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Uschi (Ursula) Walke: gouache is painting with water colours mixed with resin, bringing us to acrylics rather than oil. Still believe this has to do with the running of colours, not the paint.
1 hr
neutral  Caro Maucher: this term is also used in some grafic design software. No idea if it's used in this context.
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
"Color-blends"


Explanation:
"One works with many layers of thin oil paint, and can model the painting by slowly maneuvering it to where one wants it to be; rather than dumping the proper color with one stroke of the brush. Naturally, will colors then blend totally surprising."

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