artist's palette

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• Palette (computing) — Color depth 1 bit monochrome 8 bit grayscale 8 bit color 15/16 bit color (High color) 24 bit color (True color) 30/36/48 bit color (Deep color) Related Indexed color Palette RGB color model Web safe color This box …   Wikipedia

• Palette knife — A palette knife is a blunt knife with an extremely flexible steel blade and no sharpened cutting edge. It is primarily used for mixing paint colors, paste, etc., or for marbling, decorative endpapers, etc. The palette in the name is a reference… …   Wikipedia

• palette cup — noun : a small metal cup for holding vehicle or diluent for paint and equipped with a flange for attachment to an artist s palette …   Useful english dictionary

• palette — (n.) 1620s, flat thin tablet used by an artist to lay and mix colors, from Fr. palette, from O.Fr. palete small shovel, blade, dim. of pale shovel, blade, from L. pala spade, shoulder blade. Transferred sense of colors used by a particular artist …   Etymology dictionary

• Palette — Pal ette, n. [See {Pallet} a thin board.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Paint.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments. Hence, any other object, usually one with a …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Palette knife — Palette Pal ette, n. [See {Pallet} a thin board.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Paint.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments. Hence, any other object, usually… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• palette — ► NOUN 1) a thin board on which an artist lays and mixes colours. 2) the range of colours used by an artist. 3) the range of tonal colour in a musical piece. ORIGIN French, little shovel …   English terms dictionary

• palette — [pal′it] n. [Fr, dim. of pale, a shovel < L pala, a spade, shovel] 1. a thin board or tablet of wood, plastic, etc., often with a hole for the thumb at one end, on which an artist arranges and mixes paints 2. the colors used by a particular… …   English World dictionary

• palette knife — palette ,knife (plural palette knives) noun count a knife that an artist uses for mixing paints or putting paint on a picture …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Palette — A palette (IPAEng|ˈpælɨt) is: a surface on which a painter mixes colour pigments. A palette may be made of wood, glass, plastic, ceramic tile or other inert material and can vary greatly in size and shape. The most commonly known type of painter… …   Wikipedia

• Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art — The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art is an association of representational artists, founded in Chicago in 1895.FoundingAs the Inland Printer reported in June 1896:An association of artists and craftsmen for the purpose of work and study… …   Wikipedia