Sentences with word «ocher»

The bathers are painted in varying shades of yellow ocher with odd raw sienna and pthalo blue shadows.

However, this year archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood of the African Heritage Research Institute in Cape Town uncovered what he considers much earlier evidence of abstract thought — two pieces of ocher engraved by a South African cave dweller 77,000 years ago.

Conversely, the blue - green regions are converted into ocher with the coming of autumn.

Two Table Lamps, Possibly Josef Albers Oak and metal 1941 - 1951 Pieced column on square block base with early metal socket in ocher paint, ht.

The builders did not apply red ocher as liberally as their predecessors did, and they painted only a few of the nearby slabs.

Mars owes its fiery tint to the great ocher stretches.

Clothed in colors so rich they seem edible, from lime green to tangerine, Wakanda's leaders stand on ocher or umber platforms carved straight out of the cliff - side.

Viewed through a telescope, Mars appears as a disk crowned with white spots and covered with blue - green and reddish ocher patches.

The kits included a pair of abalone shells holding paint made from a red dirt known as ocher.

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.

Mixing both almond and ocher shades gives me the perfect concealer for my problem areas.

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.

It was onion - harvesting season in the fertile valley at the foot of the Crystal Mountains, and the roads were noisy with overloaded motorcycles carrying the produce to larger market towns, kicking up plumes of ocher dust.

The brand is backed by a well known NYC - based physician, Dr. Elena Ocher, who's Georgian roots allowed her to experience the benefits of Remedea her entire life.

Wear your tweed jacket with dark denim and ocher shoes.

I could never wear a warm ocher, for example.

With the help of the cinematographer Roger Deakins, who composes beige and ocher landscapes that look simultaneously lush and austere, the brothers have made the American South into a gauzy dreamland.

You can't miss it as it's painted a wonderful ocher color with a huge clock face in center.

The enormous ocher - roofed ordination hall at Wat Kalayanamit grabs the eyes of virtually anyone who cruises past on the Chao Phraya River, even if nearby Wat Arun ends up getting most of the attention.

But they were just kind, they were small paintings and divided by perhaps a profile, very simple profile, and a mouth, an eye and usually ocher, heavily painted.

Two seashells become blobs, one light gray, the other ocher.

''... The salty blooms and ocher depths of many of [Joseph's] steel - relief paintings evoke not only the Mediterranean hub of Western culture but also its spokes, spanning the compass...»

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.

Wood re-created the handful of shapes strewn across the flat ocher ground of Alexis's drawing at an enlarged scale for Untitled (Background Drawing)(2009).

In a pink - and - ocher dress and with two children in tow, she plods down the runway of a «mother and

The expansive scale of Tolbert's paintings, coupled with the antagonism of his vibrant yet sour color palette — lush contrasts of pink, yellow and green coexist uneasily with light ochers and dark purples — gives Fine China its affective momentum.

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.

In addition, he liked ochers and browns, which he characterized as «inexpensive earth colors,» because they were «impure,» and had «associations to earth, blood, wine, shit etc..»

Swayed by summer breeze, tinted with transparent ocher, punctured / Asymmetrically with alluring violence, / Symmetrically piercing the other side at will, / Swirling slowly to another unknown space below.

She covers these surfaces with different substances of various colors: vermilion encaustic, grayed cobalt blue oil paint, yellow egg tempera, ocher casein.

His sundry palette draws from high and low culture, bringing together pop - music pink with cave - born ochers.

Austin Eddy Flying - Fingers, City - Face (Yellow Ocher Cobalt Blue and Raw Umber), 2016 Oil stick and paper on canvas 24 x 20 in / 61 x 51 cm

It is a simple image of the sea with a billowing burnt sienna and yellow ocher storm cloud at the horizon.

Comprised of a series of irregular rectangular forms arranged in rows and columns, the buffed and sprayed components in white, black, deep red and ocher rhythmically alternate across the large surface implying a continuation beyond the boundaries of the piece.

It is painted with Vintage Market & Design furniture paint in Moss and topped with the brown ocher wax.

Pantone's color of the year is Ultra-Violet, bright yellow will find its way into bathrooms and onto accent furniture, and darker yellows (think Ocher and Mustard) are poised to warm up our living spaces.

On the walls of these giant caverns are bison, bears, horses, and rhinos, drawn in ocher and charcoal 30,000 years ago; they predate the celebrated Lascaux cave paintings by some 10,000 years.

They are seated on an intricately carved bed, daubed with red ocher, that shows woven struts on the underside and curvilinear designs on the upper.

Most pieces of rock art, painted in red, brown or yellow ocher — a hydrous iron oxide — contain no organic carbon.

Tracing the quest for sexual pleasure back to the discovery of a prehistoric, 70,000 - year - old chunk of ocher «lipstick» found lying in a South African cave, Margolis argues that the female orgasm serves an evolutionary purpose: By helping to propel sperm through the cervix, it may increase the chances of conception, and it could also cement parental bonds.

We sat on the slotted rocks beside the falls — vertical jointing, black and brown, ocher and beige, as the chocolate river poured past.

Of the blue - green and reddish ocher patches to which reference has been made, it may be stated in a general way that of the two the reddish - ocher tint predominates, occupying as it does, five - eighths of the disk.

They look like sizable black pin heads sharply pronounced against the ocher stretches and even prominent in the midst of the dark areas.

Land the ocher regions have generally been taken for, and land they undoubtedly are.

Near the prehistoric paint palettes, the archaeologists found stone tools that had been tailored to prepare the ocher mixture, as well as shaped pieces of bone that may have been used to apply the pigment.

Creatures of supreme stealth and majesty, the 1,000 - pound carnivores were clearly revered, perhaps even worshipped by the artists who drew them in ocher and charcoal 30,000 years ago.

While the modern Vikings swaddled themselves in waterproof gear, the original Vikings would have worn foul - smelling fat - and - ocher - smeared skins and used woolen blankets smeared with fat on one side to form a primitive sleeping bag.

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.