umber

• Shadow boxing is not as crazy as it looks.Sciatherics was the art of constructing and maintaining a sundial, and the umber was the shadow of the pointer on a sundial.
• A golden umber, the heavy material was shot with green, so that, as she moved, it appeared to bronze, then dull. —  A Lady of Expectations
• The light umber-colored dirt sifting through his fingers didn't look too much different from the kind he'd harrowed as a child growing up on the family farm in the Missouri Ozarks. —  AnalogSFF,November2007
• He probably used a combination of raw umber, burnt umber, and cobalt blue, using three values to create a middle wash, a light wash, and dark wash, punctuated by lovely, descriptive brushmarks in what appears to be ivory black for everything from the arch of the abbey to details in the foliage. —  American Artist
• There are several ways of producing Flemish finish; you can fill the wood with a paste filler strained with raw umber, and when dry apply a stain of transparent flat raw umber, and for the darker shades of finish use drop black with the umber. —  Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I

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