burnt sienna
- noun
- /bɜrnt siˈɛnə/
- She chose burnt sienna for the background to enhance the warm tones of the portrait.
- burnt sienna and umber
- burnt sienna and yellow ochre
- burnt sienna and ultramarine
So the first shade is Burnt Sienna.
- So the first shade is Burnt Sienna.
- The Crimson and the burnt Sienna and a little bit of blue for Caucasian skin tones.
Examples
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Colors of sandalwood, rose, burnt sienna, row the shelves in leather-bound books.
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The trees all over the neighborhood are stunning shades of copper, rust, scarlet, brilliant gold, bright green, and burnt sienna.
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The ruffles at the bottom are so much fun, and the burnt sienna color is perfect for fall.
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I was thinking the colors for the wedding, burnt sienna and turquoise.
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I'm going to take this other brush with the shade Burnt Sienna again to blend that out.
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He has orange fur, more like a burnt sienna.
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The Crimson and the burnt Sienna and a little bit of blue for Caucasian skin tones.
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Now I'm taking a little pencil brush to find the lower lash line real quick, and I'm going to bring that Burnt Sienna shade all the way across.
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So what I've got here is some watered down raw umber and some burnt Sienna, two of my favorite weathering colors.
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The artist applied a rich layer of burnt sienna to create depth in the painting.
Synonyms
A reddish brown color often seen in old photos
A reddish-brown color made from earth used for painting
A deep reddish-brown color like wood from a tropical tree
A medium to dark brown color with a slight red tone used in painting
A brown color with a slight red tint
A deep reddish-brown color like the wood used in furniture
A brown colour with red or yellow tones that looks cosy
How Dark
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositional: 'burnt' (heated/darkened) modifies 'sienna' (a reddish-brown pigment), so the meaning 'a reddish-brown pigment/darker variety of sienna produced by heating' is directly inferable from the parts. This follows common color/pigment naming patterns (e.g. 'burnt umber') and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Burnt sienna comes from a brown earth used by painters near the city of Siena in Italy that they heated to make a richer red-brown. The name joins burnt, meaning heated, and sienna, the place, so today burnt sienna means a warm reddish-brown 'color' used in painting.