To make a fine red take cinnabar or red chalk or burnt ochrefor the dark shadows and for the lighter ones red chalk and vermilion and for the lights pure vermilion and then glaze with fine lake.
You can make a fine ochre by the same method as you use to make white.
Their party had been possessed of two canoes, and they had built a canoe-rest, on which the daubs of red ochre and the roots of trees used to tie or fasten it together appeared fresh.
Red ochre and black mixed together, shaded with black, heightened with red ochre and white.
For yellow colour use yellow ochreif you please, but chrome yellow makes a richer colour and less does.
For blue eyes, permanent blue and white; for hazel eyes, yellow ochre and vandyke brown.
English ochre with boiled oil, and add to it 16 lbs.
A hundred yards distant there stood out one superb Masai warrior, the leader of the party; a naked figure of perfect manhood, red in colour, with a naturally brown skin, raddled with ochre and powdered with the dust of the red ground.
The dining-room at Magara House is a fair-sized apartment, with walls of well-smoothed cement surface of pinkish tone, due to red ochre being mixed with the cement.
Yellow and red ochre mixed with grease are coarsely smeared over the bodies, grey in coarse patterns and white in fine patterns resembling tattoo marks.
Oxide of iron or ochre is still very often found in potted meats, fish sauces and chocolates; dioxide of manganese is admixed with cheap chocolates.
Behind that there ran a great breadth of knee-high stubble, blazing ochre and cadmium in the sunlight.
When the wheat rolls across the foreground in ochre and burnished copper waves, it's more wonderful still.
Their blue duck clothing and bare brown arms appeared among the white and ochretinting of the grass that seemed charged with brightness, and the sounds of their activity came up to her.
He glanced at the Lancashire sandhills, which were fading into a pale ochre gleam amidst the haze over the starboard hand, and then at the long row of painted buoys that moved back to them ahead.
Of the yellows, the more inferior were mixtures of ochre and different quantities of chalk; the richer varieties were ochres mixed with the red oxide of lead.
Parrots scream And cling swaying to the ochre bales .
In a cutting through a hill-side by the government new road veins of bright yellow ochre were exposed, also red ochre in considerable quantities.
The lustre pigments, a mixture of sulphide of copper or sulphide of silver, or both with red ochre or other earth, was then painted over the glazed surface with vinegar as a medium.
The clay for the Athenian vases was obtained from Cape Kolias in Attica; and as it did not burn to a very warm tone, ruddle or red ochre (rubrica) was added to it to produce the lovely deep orange glow that distinguishes the best vases.
Mahogany cement, for filling up cracks in wood, consists of 4 parts of beeswax, 1 of Indian red and yellow-ochre to give colour.
Working and Aboriginal Classes “Sweetly the drum is beaten and Sweetly the girl comes to draw water: Sweet is the ochre on her forehead: Sweet is her bodice of silk: Sweet is her charming footstep.
When a ruler first ascends his throne, by a Hindu custom, a mark of ochre is printed on his brow by a priest as an auspicious omen and a sign of fortune.
In her hand she carries the brass tray on which she has put her humble offerings of ochre powder and flowers with a wick burning beside them; and she goes looking neither to the right nor to the left.
The preparation is then taken from the fire, and when cold is pounded very fine; the red ochre and scoriae are then added to it; it is mixed up by hand and again pounded into powder.
Coming back one day, I spotted two herons wading among some yellow-ochre sedges in a swampy field.
In Baillie's Letters we see him exhibited, though all unwittingly on the part of the writer, in his true character, and find that the yellow ochre would be considerably out of place.
Light Red and Burnt Sienna are prepared by burning Yellow Ochre and Raw Sienna; they are both quite permanent.
Veins of ochre and clay, holes filled with scoria, with intrusions of larger or smaller fragments of various rocks and minerals, and a kind of stratification, are the principal features of this trachytic formation.
A crimson-striped robe formed the costume of each, and their naturally plain faces were rendered hideous by a coat of red ochre with blue-stained arches in the place of eyebrows, which it is the fashion of Shoa to pluck out.
These two they temper together and make into cakes, which they sell to the glovers by the name of ochre cakes, and with them they give a yellow colour to leather.
The Swedes also call yellow iron-ochre kiöllerfärg or kyllerfarg.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ochre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
