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yellow ochre

NOUN
  1. pigment consisting of a limonite mixed with clay and silica

How To Use yellow ochre In A Sentence

  • One side of the painting is covered with energetic dabs of white and black over soft blue oblongs on a yellow ochre background.
  • In these rooms there should be panels above the dadoes, worked in black, and polished, with yellow ochre or vermilion blocks interposed between them. The Ten Books on Architecture
  • This is a mixture of yellow ochre and burnt umber applied to previously dampened paper.
  • 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
  • The tail is suffused with a yellow ochre colouring, and the scale patterning on the upper body is ornamental.
  • To his eye, the blue looked right, and that color prompted him to paint a neighboring square yellow ochre, and so on.
  • The palette is severely limited: blacks, grays, browns, and the acidic yellow ochre of the faces.
  • Lead white, yellow ochre and raw sienna were found throughout the painting, together with chalk (used as an extender).
  • The Aztec courtesans used a pale yellow ochre powder on their faces to make them look beautiful.
  • We shall first set forth the natural colours that are dug up as such, like yellow ochre, which is termed [Greek: ôchra] in Greek. The Ten Books on Architecture
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