I use Henri Roche yellow
ochre on the tall, dried grasses at the bottom right.
It's cute, sure, but don't forget that pictures of animals are some of the very earliest paintings we know about, rendered in
ochre on cave walls.
It was drawn in
ochre on a sheet of rough, uneven rag approximately the size of ordinary letter paper, the same color as southern California sandstone.
I use a MAC paint pot in soft
ochre on my eyelids as a primer if I decide I'm wearing eyeshadow that day.
Lena Nyadbi, Jimbala, Jeering and Daiwul Country, 2001,
ochres on canvas (courtesy of the Hood Art Museum)
Not exact matches
I knew from that moment
on I could only live in a place where leaves turn
ochre and the rain turns everything blue.
All my bamboo spatulas have now taken
on an interesting yellow
ochre hue.
The pebble appears to have been dipped into an
ochre - based paint and used as a stamp
on an unknown material.
Brooks, a senior researcher
on the Olorgesailie project, describes two roughly finger - sized pieces of
ochre that bear the marks of human alteration — and perseverance.
The new date is based
on thousands of artifacts from the Northern Australia site of Madjedbebe, including numerous examples of
ochre in ground, slab and «crayon» forms.
The archaeological record suggests
ochre had some other practical uses, turning up
on tools and weapons.
Jellison and colleagues from the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory collected
ochre sea stars and black turban snails — two common species along the Pacific coastline — from tide pools
on the Bodega Marine Reserve.
Collins says he's also excited about other teams producing paleoproteomic studies
on cave art: The research can help us understand how early hominins created paints by adding binding agents to
ochre and other material, which hints at their cognitive process.
Marks
on the side were characteristic of rubbing against adjacent shell beads, while traces of red
ochre may have come from contact with body paint.
And the Neandertals were in Britain until about 35,000 years ago and then at 30,000 years ago we become modern people as a ceremonial burial at Paviland of Cro - Magnons and it was in fact probably the first one ever found, and it was dug up in about 1822, and because they had no concept then of what it was, it was thought to be perhaps a prostitute servicing the Roman army because this individual had red
ochre powder
on them and ivory jewelry.
A team working at pinnacle point
on the South African coast east of Cape Town reported evidence of the use of shell fish as a food source and the use of
ochre for body decoration.
Curtis Marean leads the work at Pinnacle Point and he says of the Bombas Cave finds, «This is a fabulous result that provides insights
on how the
ochre was processed.
As for the overall color palette, Free People focused
on grays, dark greens, burgundy and light - blue shades, leaving it up to the cheerful pops of red
ochre and yellow to revamp the entire collection.
I have the first coat of ASCP
on it (
ochre)-- I've never done this before!
On the dreariest, drizzliest of winter days, Gugu Mbatha - Raw — bundled in a cozy
ochre sweater and practical wellies — ducks into a Cobble Hill cafe.
My car has a matt finish by default: it's an 11 - year - old Xsara that lives in a desert about 1 km the sea and has just spent a week or so parked
on dusty wasteground near the local airport; it should be blue, but it's now a beautiful Saharan
ochre colour.
Mostly, the desert painted in shades of red
on the canvas of my face, but when I looked in the mirror that morning,
on July 25th, I thought I saw a faint hum of brown glimmering beneath the sunburnt crust, threading between the black and
ochre tapestry of my almost - full beard.
Ochre is located
on the waterfront at Harbour Lights 1 Marlin Parade, and is open daily for Lunch & Dinner.
Painted in earthy shades of
ochre and terracotta and furnished with dark wood, the bedrooms are cozy and comfortable, and hammocks
on the balconies add further enticement to relax.
The resort is surrounded by huge
ochre coloured dunes
on both sides and a large valley / wadi offers truly amazing views.
Day Four — Travel south along the famous Oodnadatta Track and visit the unique Mound Springs, Coward Springs, Curdimurka, Lake Eyre South, Marree and Lyndhurst
Ochre Cliffs
on the way to Leigh Creek for our overnight stay at the Outback Resort or cabin accommodation (ensuite).
Some examples of the pieces available for viewing and purchase include
ochres and acrylics
on canvas, paper and bark, ironwood carvings, ceramics, and hand woven baskets.
Day Four — Travel south along the famous Oodnadatta Track and visit the unique Mound Springs, Curdimurka, Lake Eyre South, Marree and Lyndhurst
Ochre Cliffs
on the way to Blinman for our overnight stay at the Blinman Hotel.
The villas
on the property are characterised by their old roof tiles and the traditional colours of the properties with their yellow
ochre and broad strips of red while the interiors retain their wooden floors or handmade terracotta paving and ceilings with oak beams that recreate the atmosphere of a bygone age.
The hotel I stayed in,
Ochre & Brown, a lovely 11 - room boutique hotel, was perfectly located about a 10 - minute walk from the Acropolis,
on the edge of Psiri and close to Plaka.
Built in true local style, it has whitewashed walls, wrought iron railings
on the windows,
ochre - coloured roof tiles and a pretty central courtyard full of plant pots and decorated with chairs and coffee tables.
As a result, the musician known as
Ochre made a now - deleted tweet: «Pleased to announce the licencing of «Infotain Me» to Sony for Little Big Planet 2
on PS3.»
BROOKLYN — Philip Hanson featured in group exhibition at U.S. Blues, Leaves of Sage and Foot of Mammal
on a Smooth Yellow -
ochre Background.
David Ryan's Set 2 (c) also seems to have some doubling going
on, this time within the one painting, in the repetition of rectangles that occupy different spaces, one in lime green, one in yellow
ochre and one in white, as well as the containing rectangle of the support.
From the end of 1977 to the spring of 1978, Scott painted eight large canvases
on the still life theme, each designated a different colour (blue, brown,
ochre, etc).
Called The
Ochre Atelier: Modigliani VR Experience, ticketed museum - goers can go through the experience for free, although Tate Modern says there's limited capacity, so free tickets must be collected
on the day of your visit
on a first come, first - serve basis.
HS The Lion King image, with this yellow
ochre has been all over the place for a long time in New York City, for instance
on trains advertising the Broadway musical.
His paintings employ a traditional technique used in the Chosun Dynasty (1392 — 1897) in which the pigments — in Ha's work, the
ochres and dark umbers — are pushed through the weave of the burlap and eventually linen from the opposite side, and then trowelled with a palette knife
on the frontal surface.
My eye gets taken into those spaces in the centre and the figure (three rhombus shapes combined)
on the left appears to be in front of the one
on the right (again, not really a figure so much as four black shapes that my eye groups together and interprets as a figure), that
ochre square in the bottom left is definitely in front of the red / brown square, until suddenly the white space in the middle becomes figure, softer and slightly curved, which for less than a second might be a female figure, or a face.
Attempting to bring the project full circle, Dodd presents the culmination of the turbulent journey through time and space set inside the grumbly, rumbling Catfish studio, its» belly burping and bumping along the ocean floor through heat and sleet, though coup to calm, through leaks, bursts, filibusters and b - flat notes, a kidneys» need, a tickle in the throat... and the final upheaval of the roaring storm whose
ochre radius swung down and pointed with pin prick precision straight to Catfish and with the last clap of thunder deafly pronounced: «THE FOSS GOES
ON!
In these paintings the palette is earthy, the black layered
on brown and
ochre shades, but even in a work like Black Moves (1964), the dark tones are animated by contrast with a small triangle of red, and some delicate small dotting of yellow.
Although her work centers
on black subjects, the artist makes skin color secondary to the psychological aspects of her sitters — her use of soft hues of yellow,
ochre, red, and mauve express an intimate emotional sensitivity even when the figure is doing something as mundane as hanging out
on a couch in their apartment.
«Brake» (2014) is a clash of horizontal and vertical stripes, with swaths of
ochre drifting across the surface and a band of intense cadmium yellow along the upper edge, while in «Raft,» (also 2014), the vertical stripes run from top to bottom, with two horizontal sets constrained within shield - like shapes
on the left and right, calling to mind Walker's fascination with Aboriginal and African art.
Accepted by the nation in lieu of tax
on Freud's estate, this body of work includes emblematic works by one of our finest contemporary painters, including his 1962 scene of London's Leicester Square as a building site, rendered in high - impasto semi-abstract smears of red, orange,
ochre and grey.
Turnbull was painting as well as sculpting, and though some of the later abstracts look like a second - hand take
on Barnett Newman, many, composed mostly of broad horizontal brush - strokes in blues, greys,
ochres, reds and greens, are packed with nascent energy and survive as remarkable paintings to this day.
In the Art in the Age of Altamira exhibition catalog, Jill Cook wrote that, after his cave visits, «Miró's preference for working off the easel
on larger format works painted against a wall or
on the ground, as well as his use of
ochre pigments and earth tones developed.»
The muted pink, turquoise and
ochre hues that expand over the canvas have echoes of his early landscapes but are clearly
on the way to becoming the red, blue and yellow that mark Mondrian's modernism.
Her more recent work, from 2007, called I Was In Baghdad
Ochre Fade, is based
on the transcriptions of documents from the Iraq War while her Redaction Paintings series from 2008 features declassified memos and much of the text is blacked out and censored.
Yellow
Ochre / Bluish Violet, 2011 watercolor
on Fabriano Artistico HP 640gsm paper paper: 22 x 30 3/8 inches (56 x 77 cm) framed: 23 3/4 x 32 x 1 1/2 inches (60.3 x 81.3 x 3.8 cm) CI - 110.11.
Lines in charcoal, pencil, blue, black,
ochre, and orange crisscross
on Mylar and form the «scaffolding»
on which the paintings metaphorically hang.