color wash
colour wash

With flat colors and an occasional bit of subtle color wash, he creates a watery world.

A color wash is a popular technique in faux painting using paint thinned out with glaze to create a subtle wash of color over walls or other surfaces.

Jules felt a wave of color wash over her cheeks.

She felt color wash into her cheeks.

He watched a tide of color wash into her cheeks, and he grinned.

Gould makes no attempt to simulate an orchestra - as always, he rejects color washes and all other vaguenesses of articulation and sonority.

Tinted plaster, a color wash on stucco, and glazed tiles are used to face the adobe.

To drive the point home, Mr. Saran produced an official Chinese map showing Sikkim as part of India, "the same color wash as the rest of India."

Then a blue color wash may be applied to the inside of each vinyl part to give the appearance of realistic baby skin undertones.

The effects of the blue color wash combined with the outside layers of paint creates the appearance of veins, and gives the doll its newborn mottled look.