The ordinary "Reed pen" of the artists' colourman is rather soft and weak for formal writing.
Though we have run from the House of Suddhu to the barrack-yard, we have not yet lost sight of Mr Kipling, decorator and colourman in words.
Mr Kipling as journalist and very efficient colourman in words has made much of India in his time.
The other forms contain a considerable amount of glycerine, which does not improve the colour, but enables them to be kept moist for quite a long time--a greater advantage to the artists’ colourman than to the artist.
The artist of to-day can buy so many things ready prepared for him by the artists’ colourman that he is very liable to give little or no attention to their composition and quality.
Of course, it must not be understood by this that it is necessary for the artist to subject all his colours to chemical analysis; if he buys his colours from any reliable artists’ colourman he can rely on the colours being true to their name.
Crass's work ascolourman was simplified, to a certain extent, by the great number of specially prepared paints and distempers in all colours, supplied by the manufacturers ready for use.
He got one of the light-weights to assist him in his work of colourman and made him do all the hard work, while he spent part of his own time visiting the different jobs to see how the work progressed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colourman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
