Sentences with phrase «from ocher»
Generally speaking, it may be said that certain regions pass from ocher to blue - green in a few weeks at a season corresponding with the Martian spring.
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The kits included a pair of abalone shells holding paint made from a red dirt known as ocher.
They knew that humans had been in the area at least 35,000 years ago, the age given to ocher crayons and ocher - smeared stone tools they had excavated from the Leang Burung 2 rock shelter nearby.
The team includes Thomas Sutikna of the National Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta and the University of Wollongong in Australia, who helped discover the «hobbit,» a small - statured human species from another Indonesian island, and he and Brumm are already excavating the caves near the newly dated art to search for ocher pieces, stone tools, and bones.
The apses often had stone altars (which were frequently carved with spiral or animal designs), carefully plastered floors and walls, and other decorations painted with red ocher, a pigment probably imported from Sicily.
Pileups of swipes and smears of acid - tinged ochers, dead blues, odd neutrals and straight - from - the - tube reds and greens, they showcase McNeil's talents as a colorist.
«Mineral pigments epitomize our formative cultures» — from the hematite mines in East Mojave to the ocher found in Native American grave sites in California — offers the artist Oscar Tuazon, whose Los Angeles project space Corner Door is presenting Schlingelhoff's work, in a statement about the project.
Muted dark colors cluster along the edges of «Miller 22» and filaments of line swing the eye outward from the center of periphery of its mottled pale ocher field.