Which preposition to use with colourings

of Occurrences 53%

The day was windy and sunless and rather cold, but the warm and audacious colouring of the Villas and the little fishing villages seemed almost to draw sunshine out of the dull sky.

to Occurrences 12%

The people in the fields worked with greater energy, and the bright scarlet hoods of the damsels, many of whom followed the plough, gave a pleasant colouring to an animated scene.

with Occurrences 3%

If he can make the life-blood flow from the wounded breast, this is the living colouring with which he paints his verse: if he can assuage the pain or close up the wound with the balm of solitary musing, or the healing power of plants and herbs and "skyey influences," this is the sole triumph of his art.

in Occurrences 3%

There is no "storied window," scarcely any "dim religious light," and not a morsel of extra colouring in the whole establishment.

from Occurrences 2%

Yet, for your comfort, the lineaments are true; and though he sat not five times to me, as he did to B., yet I have consulted history, as the Italian painters do when they would draw a Nero or a Caligula: though they have not seen the man, they can help their imagination by a statue of him, and find out the colouring from Suetonius and Tacitus.

at Occurrences 1%

The general effect of the interior is spoilt by the fantastic modern colouring at the E. end.

by Occurrences 1%

Make a green colouring by pounding some parsley in a mortar, and squeezing all the juice from it.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Sheep grazed in groups, the tan shaded slope in faint colouring beneath them.

Which preposition to use with  colourings