sienna
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- noun
- /siˈɛnə/
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siena
- She mixed sienna with white to create a beautiful skin tone for her portrait.
- burnt sienna
- raw sienna
- yellow ochre and sienna
Let's pick up raw Sienna before I just tap out on this whole thing.
- Let's pick up raw Sienna before I just tap out on this whole thing.
- So I use raw Sienna in burnt orange in my crease.
- Pair this shade Sienna with a nude lip gloss or one that has a slight pinky brown hue to it and you will get the perfect supermodel pad.
- So the first shade is Burnt Sienna.
Examples
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The artist chose sienna for the background to give warmth to the painting.
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And I'm going to go in with the color Sienna just right here.
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Well, let's just start with raw Sienna, this one.
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The ruffles at the bottom are so much fun, and the burnt sienna color is perfect for fall.
Blog text (20) -
I was thinking the colors for the wedding, burnt sienna and turquoise.
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The Crimson and the burnt Sienna and a little bit of blue for Caucasian skin tones.
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The rivers of color streaking through its basic gray background perfectly matched the dun, ocher, and sienna hues of the surrounding landscape.
Fiction book (2001) -
In his landscape painting, he used sienna to depict the rich soil of the countryside.
Synonyms
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A reddish-brown paint color often used for paintings or walls
A red-brown paint made from earth used to draw under wall paintings
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Compounds
How Reddish
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sienna comes from the Italian phrase terra di Siena, which means 'earth of Siena', because the brown earth was dug near the Italian city Siena and used to make paint. So Sienna now means the warm reddish-brown paint color artists use.