Umber (Noun)
Meaning 1
A medium brown to dark-brown color.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
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Meaning 2
An earth pigment.
Classification
Nouns denoting substances.
Examples
- The Renaissance painter's favorite colors were ultramarine and umber, which she mixed with tempera to create her vibrant portraits.
- In order to capture the deep richness of the wood paneling, the artist relied on generous brushstrokes of umber and ochre.
- Earth tones, particularly burnt umber and sienna, dominate the abstract artist's most famous pieces from the 1950s.
- Rust-red rocks against an azure sky called out to be immortalized with pigment; accordingly, her traveling artist's case always held vials of rich burnt umber and Venetian cerulean.
- Traditionally used for natural landscapes and also dramatic dark-skinned skies and oceans in mid-era northern landscape oils are pigment series ending typically among Raw sienna after sometimes finishing Umber yellow/burnt ends added once still alive touch via sun-blazon technique where everything breath.