The water lilies themselves are simple strokes; then he uses pale yellows and greens, a spot of red or a dash of lilac; then vague strokes are blue to suggest shadows. Our eyes do the rest.
When it walks through the long forest grass, it is also hard to see, for its hair is the same colour as the blades of yellowish grass and patches of deep shadow.
The dress of the young man who now stepped out on to the terrace was Indian; but his plaited hair was straw-coloured, his eyes a pale blue, and his skin a white skin, bronzed.
Kodak says customers were more likely to buy the lighter yellow boxes, logically thinking that the darker boxes were older and therefore contained older film.
Do not suppose, however, that Mrs. Poyser was elderly or shrewish in her appearance; she was a good-looking woman, not more than eight-and-thirty, of fair complexion and sandy hair, well-shapen, light-footed.
Yet I assure you these grey pews, with the buff-washed walls, gave a very pleasing tone to this shabby interior, and agreed extremely well with the ruddy faces and bright waistcoats.
When I was growing up, people would sometimes use the phrase about a beautiful actress or model, " a blonde bombshell." " Blonde" meaning, of course, a light-yellow-colored hair.