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How to use umber in a sentence

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However, there is an understain of reddish umber that leaks around the forms and masses.
Its outer edges are layered, almost smooth, with mixed colors ranging from saddlebag tan to dark umber.
Areas can also be kept just the reddish brown of the sanguine, umber or black, depending on the artist's wishes.
This generally quiet area features sun-drenched murals in gold, umber, and burnt red.
But there is something easeful and secure about this uncluttered room with its warm umber banquettes.
The Earl was wearing a grey pinstripe suit and the Countess a black coat with matching umber scarf, handbag and shoes.
This open, umber landscape will be complemented, however, by a complex, labyrinthine village-scape.
There was an umber and ozone odor, like lightning striking the loam of a farmer's field.
Perhaps eyes painted without black pupils seem ghostly but the painterly dabs of umber tones definitely bring this woman back to earth.
Characteristically he painted in thick impasto, mainly with a palette knife and generally in subdued ochre and umber tones.
Poussin perpetuates the convention, which goes back as far as the Pompeian frescoes, of burnished umber men and pearly women.
Her dark, umber brown hair was tied up, yet still the long ponytail reached almost four inches over her shoulder.
It resembled a five-story, refurbished manor house with umber bricks and large turrets.
The air is heavy with the scent of dates and rain, and the umber of the dunes is brilliant against the grim sky.
The next step is to paint some winter weeds around her, and put a nice wet wash of burnt umber and cobalt blue over the wet ground of her body.
The larva of the mottled umber moth is a reddish brown caterpillar that eats the leaves of oak trees and shrubs.
As will be seen from the chemical analysis of raw umber, it contains quite a high percentage of manganese dioxide.
Dark brown umber on bright yellow is featured in one Ziss painting, and purple-inflected blue set against pale green in another.
What this means is that when this umber is combined with any good, saturated colour, that other colour will lose most of it's gray properties.
Add 0.4g burnt umber and 0.2g Indian yellow to a mortar, and then add 10 ml gum.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Spores globose, usually some shade of umber or olivaceous, rarely violaceous.
Among the rocks gleam ebony seeds of the blackberry lily, whose star of orange and umber is about to set.
The people who live in this look as it painted in umber by old Dutch masters.
The eggs are white or greenish white, specked with reddish brown and umber.
The colors used are raw and burnt sienna, raw and burnt umber and ivory black.
We caught him one morning about two miles out from Mountain Valley, on his way to look after some of his burnt umber farm land.
The colors used in either oil or distemper graining are raw sienna deepened with raw and burnt umber to suit.
It should be made of raw sienna darkened with raw and burnt umber and thinned with raw linseed oil and turpentine, half and half.
The stippling color is best made from some good Vandyke brown, and it may also be made from burnt umber in distemper.
The ground color is made by tinting white lead with ochre, venetian red and burnt umber.
The graining color should be made from raw sienna and burnt umber in distemper.
Raw umber is a good color, or raw umber modified with burnt sienna and black.
More and more she loved these umber wastes, over which cloud-shadows drifted like the darkening ripple of the wind on the sea.
They are of a grayish or buffy color spotted with umber and lilac.
Melt the three articles together and color with burnt umber.
The filler used should be coloured with burnt umber and sienna.
Differs from C. stenocoleus in sulcate pileus and umber stem.
In the midst of all this the lamp still cast a smoky glow, obscure and brown as umber.
The next stage was to fill in the bridge and this time I used my No 8 round brush and a mix of ultramarine blue and raw umber.
The shire has experienced an administrative crisis in recent months after a n umber of senior staff either resigned or were dismissed.
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