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raw umber

NOUN
  1. greenish brown pigment

How To Use raw umber In A Sentence

  • Anyway, that grass … I overpainted that once with raw umber, which is a dark yellowish brown, and on top of that I put mixtures of yellow ochre, and then I scratched through all the layers with a piece of metal comb. ' To The Hilt
  • I overpainted that once with raw umber, which is a dark yellowish brown, and on top of that I put mixtures of yellow ochre, and then I scratched through all the layers with a piece of metal comb. ' They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff
  • Raw Umber came to prominence as an Italian pigment and it is named by the Italian word for shadow or darkness.
  • As will be seen from the chemical analysis of raw umber, it contains quite a high percentage of manganese dioxide.
  • The palette was set as follows: Black, verte emeraude, raw umber, cobalt, laque ordinaire, brun rouge or light red, yellow ochre, and white the colors being placed on the palette in this order from left to right. Carolus Duran’s Method
  • I don't use Raw Umber nearly enough.
  • And I use alkyd, which takes about two days to dry, and once it's dry, I then take off the little rubber bumps, which create those little holes with various kinds of white, which is mixed with a little bit of cerulean blue, and sometimes with raw umber or yellow ochre. Sharon L. Butler: Vija Celmins: The Artist and a Human Gesture
  • For the nine paintings in this exhibition, Howell mixed titanium white, ivory black and raw umber - the raw umber prevents bluing - in carefully calculated ratios to achieve what he calls ‘a movement of gray toward light and dark.’
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