What is the name of the overflow of colors when one shade smoothly changes to another? The artist will say that this is a stretch of paint. The programmer will call the gradient. The hairdresser will argue that this is an ombre. And they will all be right, because they use this term in the professional fields of their activity.
A person who is far from these definitions will express himself more simply: he will call such a picture an overflow, a transition, an overflow of one color into another. Often this phenomenon can be seen in the sunset sky, when the red color is gradually replaced by blue.
Photo overflow of flowers
When autumn comes, all colors start their marvelous carnival. How many different overflows can be seen on a single maple leaf! Gradually yellowing forest retains green foliage on the lower branches of trees and smoothly fills the upper thin branches with gold. The trees still give a thick shadow, but the sun's rays penetrate further into the thicket - the forest begins to take off its bright outfit.
The transition of one color to another is noticeable not only in the leaves. Light and shadow are intricately intertwined on the path, creating a pattern. Where the sun shines on the path, brighter than paint. They are warm - yellow, red, orange. Grass in the sun seems light green. Under the trees, behind the park benches, the colors darken. They become cold - burgundy, buffy, blue. It’s not immediately to find where this transformation begins, and where it ends.
In the artist’s workshop
The painter observes the slightest changes in color and light. To convey them in watercolor, he stretches the paint on a white sheet of paper. A color drop is collected on the brush and, layer by layer, applied to the drawing. The result is an overflow of colors. There are various techniques for such color rendering: stretching the color is done wet, applying paint with a brush and allowing it to spread freely.
Or the artist decides to make a stretch in a dry way: puts paint on those parts of the picture that require the addition of color depth. Often this is done on a pre-flooded background, which itself can be a smooth transition from one tone to another.
In watercolor, in fact, all the details of the picture are large or small stretch marks of color. This is the most difficult technique in painting: you can never know one hundred percent how the paint behaves. This determines the artist’s creative vision, which makes an episode of the picture from a blot, a numb puddle: it turns into a stump, a hidden animal, a shadow from a bush - as his fantasy tells.
At the hairdresser
When visiting your master, ask him what fashionable types of hair coloring he has done this season. Surely he will remember about ombre - an overflow of hair color, which is achieved by complex dyeing with the use of several multi-colored tubes of paint. To apply them to the hair in a planned manner, a hairdressing foil is used that separates some strands from others.
Sometimes, in order to achieve the desired effect, you have to first wash the dye from the hair, performing decapitation. Hair bleached after this procedure becomes ready to accept a new pigment. A skilled hairdresser-colorist can stretch the color from black at the roots to white at the tips.
The most common combination of chocolate, smoothly turning into blond and blond at the ends. Black hair turning into burgundy, mahogany and fiery red at the ends looks interesting. Such options are in fashion in the winter of 2019.
At the nail designer
A manicurist knows everything about overflowing colors. He can make such combinations that suit both the skin of the hands and the color of the eyes. This design is also called ombre. There are many varieties of it and several ways of doing it: using a fan brush, sponge, sponge, airbrush. The materials that are used in this case are also different: ordinary varnish, gel varnish, glitter, magnetic coatings.
Each season has its own fashion for certain types of design. Ombre can be made in white, which concentrates on the tips of the nails. This is a French ombre. Or sparkles, which densely cover the free edge of the nail, and completely disappear to the cuticle. Velor options are interesting, they are especially relevant in winter. In the summer, streamers of the color resembling a rainbow are popular.
In graphic design
Office workers often encounter graphs and charts. They are included in reports, reports and presentations. They compose such schemes using a computer program. When they want to emphasize the transition of one of the parameters to a quantitatively or qualitatively new state, they can choose a gradient. This is an overflow of flowers.
The graph shows a gradual transition from green to blue. So you can clearly show the change in a certain state. For example, during the month, the production and sale of certain products grew, but the age of the buyers changed. Analysts will work with this data and find out why this happened. This probably happened due to the increase in the price of the product.
Conclusion
Some words are of foreign origin, although they are used in Russian speech. Now there is an intensive replenishment of the dictionary due to many professional terms. Good or bad - time will tell. But terms such as "ombre" and "gradient", indicating the overflow of colors, are firmly entrenched in our speech.