Sentence examples for earth colours from inspiring English sources

These masks are highly polychromed with earth colours of red and yellow, lime white, and charcoal black.

This furniture, often made of oak, recalled the tradition of Elizabethan England and was turned and decorated with chip carving, often picked-out in earth colours.

There, she was exposed to the Italian masters, whose love of gold, vermilion and earth colours were to inspire her later work.

Her latest collection in Paris in March featured geometric designs and rich earth colours partly based on ancient ideas about nature and the principles of classical architecture.

Blue rarely appears in nature – there are few blue animals, fruits or vegetables – and the early painter's palette was restricted to "earth colours": reds, browns, yellows, blacks.

The deliberate vulgarity of these paintings contrasts with the French painter Jean Dubuffet's no less harsh Corps de dame series of 1950, in which the female, formed with a rich topography of earth colours, relates more directly to universal symbols.

Figure 2 Black earth (colour notation: 5Y 3/2) from Bolca (Bol1): micrograph (PPL) shows a parallel laminated microstructure.

Figure 7 Black earth (colour notation: 5YR 3/4) from Vicoforte (TN-VF): micrograph (PPL) shows a clayey-rich ground mass, opaque minerals, C-based matter and detrital quartz.

Earth pigments have not been as one might have expected widely used for the brown colours; an earth colour has been used for example for the shadows of the wheel.

Figure 5 Black earth (colour notation: N1) from Boca (Boc2): micrograph (PPL) shows a clay-rich ground mass; black material irregular in shape and size is due to C-based matter.

The more the sun approached the zenith on the far side of the earth, the colours became the larger.