| The paintings seem at first to be sombre in tone, coloured mostly by umbers and sepia-like hues. |
| Glimpses of blues, greens, reds, and umbers scintillate, emphasizing the whiteness of the gorgeously textured fields. |
| Beneath them, swimming between steel ribs which are now covered in sponges, you will usually see a shoal of black umbers. |
| Natural ochres, siennas, and umbers are found in a range of colours from red, orange, yellow, and brown to virtually black. |
| Next season, Madam Oloviah, says it's all about the peaches and burnt umbers. |
| The surrounding terrain looked like rumpled mountains of exotic spices: all ochres and umbers and oranges and smoky taupes and rusty browns. |
