burnt umber
- noun
- /bɜrnt ˈʌmbər/
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pigmento siena tostada
- These much darker skin tones down here have are built on a burnt umber base.
- burnt umber and alizarin
- burnt umber and crimson
- raw and burnt umber
Examples
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For the sunset painting, she used burnt umber mixed with other colors to create a warm tone.
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The skin tones I did the darkest skin tones I did with Windsor Newton burnt Umber and Ivory Black Gouache.
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The artist chose burnt umber to add depth to the shadows in her painting.
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He prefers burnt umber for the base color when painting the landscape's foreground.
Synonyms
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8.2
A natural brown pigment made from earth for painting
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6.7
A reddish-brown paint color often used for paintings or walls
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A natural dark brown color from earth used in painting
How Dark
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a compositional adjective+noun combination: 'burnt' (heated) modifies 'umber' (a brown pigment), so it denotes umber that has been heated to produce a dark brown pigment. This formation follows familiar pigment-naming patterns (e.g., 'burnt sienna'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Burnt umber is the name for a dark brown earth pigment made by heating natural umber. The heat makes the earth darker and the word burnt shows this, so burnt umber refers to a 'dark brown pigment' used in painting.