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#187168 - 10/08/09 05:08 AM Umber
BranShea Offline
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I enjoy the autums color words of this week's theme, but I'm really waiting for a dot of gold now to finish my imaginary painting with.

ecru
sorrel
russet
raw umber
burnt umber

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#187172 - 10/08/09 07:54 AM Re: Umber [Re: BranShea]
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Your post reminded me I had meant to look up umbrage to check out it had migrated from shadow to resentment. I was surprised by its still meaning shadow and something like hint (AHD).

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#187173 - 10/08/09 10:34 AM Re: Umber [Re: zmjezhd]
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>something like hint

just a shade of meaning..

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#187174 - 10/08/09 01:52 PM Re: Umber [Re: BranShea]
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Originally Posted By: BranShea
I enjoy the autums color words of this week's theme, but I'm really waiting for a dot of gold now to finish my imaginary painting with.

ecru
sorrel
russet
raw umber
burnt umber


Me too

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#187175 - 10/08/09 02:40 PM Re: Umber [Re: tsuwm]
Buffalo Shrdlu Offline
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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
>something like hint

just a shade of meaning..


almost an eco...

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#187182 - 10/08/09 06:18 PM Re: Umber [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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An echo of a song or a hazy shade of winter?

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#187183 - 10/08/09 06:18 PM Re: Umber [Re: BranShea]
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Perhaps a tint of raw sienna for highlights?

Can't go past the good ol earth colours eh?

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#187184 - 10/08/09 06:24 PM Re: Umber [Re: olly]
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You really know your paints.
I put the sample links here because they show that these colors of the week are more a palet of (nice) different shades than fixed colors. Umber being the most distinctive one, a real pigment. ( the etymologies I have compared hesitate between shadow and Umbria. (the Dutch site chose for Umbria)
Was it called umber because it came from the Latin umbra/shadow or was it called umber because it was first found in Umbria and used for shadows in paintings?) Yes, where are the autumn gold ochres and raw sienna's? Tomorrow?


Edited by BranShea (10/08/09 06:49 PM)
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#187187 - 10/08/09 06:49 PM Re: Umber [Re: BranShea]
olly Offline
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I spent a lot of my youth visiting all the galleries I could looking at paintings and trying to decipher the techniques and colours. I was fascinated by what could be achieved. I also had good art teachers at school.

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#187190 - 10/08/09 08:02 PM Re: Umber [Re: olly]
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Did anybody else not receive Tuesday's and Wednesday's words?

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#187193 - 10/08/09 10:20 PM Re: Umber [Re: Faldage]
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olly, I didn't know you were an artist, too! Good for you!

I've gotten a Word every day this week.

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#187204 - 10/09/09 05:28 AM Re: Umber [Re: Jackie]
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Got them all and as Anu did not give a sample link for subfusc,
subfusc -- nice word, but pretty gloomy and severe.

Olly, I'll still search for some gold.

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#187214 - 10/09/09 10:23 AM Re: Umber [Re: BranShea]
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one of my favorite Crayola® crayons was burnt sienna (from the Big Box).

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#187215 - 10/09/09 11:43 AM Re: Umber [Re: tsuwm]
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There's a lot of that in autumn coloring. The difficulty with finding the right shade (color) of yellow is that it should be set in a usage where it is used metaphorically, if one fairly follows Anu's choices.

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#187224 - 10/10/09 12:38 AM Re: Umber [Re: BranShea]
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I like the fall food colors: pumpkin, spice, saffron, pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, toast, pecan, squash, apple, tomato, burgundy; all yummy colors, and there's a ton more! :0)

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#187225 - 10/10/09 05:20 AM Re: Aureolin [Re: twosleepy]
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Allright, I found some golden dots of autum, with references.

aureolin hue

autumn clematis

Quoted from a blog somewhere:

AUREOLIN BOXES
—dawn di bartolo, citrus heights

as an artist shapes
canvas into self-portrait,

i’d found poetry to be…
golden

~ words,

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#187226 - 10/10/09 11:44 AM Re: Aureolin [Re: BranShea]
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Our Autumn colors today are covered in three inches of snow,
and you think subfusc is a gloomy word!

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#187228 - 10/10/09 09:14 PM Re: Aureolin [Re: LukeJavan8]
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SNOW?!?! You lucky DOG, you! Quick, switch houses with me!

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#187231 - 10/11/09 12:34 PM Re: Aureolin [Re: Jackie]
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I personally despise the stuff: falls, freezes, stays until
April. Turns black. Why do you love it so much?
(They had pink snow in the Australian Alps a week or so ago.)

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#187233 - 10/11/09 02:54 PM Re: Aureolin [Re: LukeJavan8]
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Take piece of paper, get box of Crayola's, take out burnt umber, burnt sienna, orange, cadmium and crimson red, pinks and yellows and go abstract with it.

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#187236 - 10/11/09 03:28 PM Re: Aureolin [Re: LukeJavan8]
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Jackie likes snow because she doesn't get enough of it to really get to know it.

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#187238 - 10/11/09 04:49 PM Re: Aureolin [Re: Faldage]
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Originally Posted By: Faldage
Jackie likes snow because she doesn't get enough of it to really get to know it.


i.e., blow.. shovel.. chop.. chip.. tunnel.. scrape.. etc.
-joe (still more obviousizing) friday

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#187239 - 10/11/09 05:58 PM Re: Aureolin [Re: tsuwm]
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Move her to Frostbite Falls and she'd probably like snow till about halfway through October.

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#187242 - 10/11/09 09:52 PM Re: Aureolin [Re: LukeJavan8]
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stays until April. Holy cow! Here, typically we get about two inches maybe four times a winter (almost never until mid-to-late December), and it stays about two days.
I love snow, not so much for itself but because if there's snow then it cannot be hot out.

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#187249 - 10/12/09 12:05 PM Re: Aureolin [Re: Jackie]
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In some places, it falls, looks nice, and melts in a day or two.
Ours falls and for the most part stays, because it never warms
up enough to melt. So it is shoveled onto the ground:circles of
interstate ramps and piled higher and higher and higher.
Places with huge parking lots, think WalMart, pile it in a corner
and there it stays, melting a little, more piled on top, re-freeze and so the cycle continues until March/April where there
is frequently some left from the first piled thereupon. It turns
black, is slippery, ugly. Black ice causes wrecks. There is the
inevitable shovel to driveway action. Snowblowers everywhere.
Just not a pretty site. I'd suggest buying a calendar with
snow pictures. A lot prettier, and a lot safer.


Edited by LukeJavan8 (10/12/09 12:06 PM)
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#187254 - 10/12/09 12:49 PM Re: Aureolin [Re: Faldage]
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Quote:
Frostbite Falls

I suspected this place does not really exist, it sounded to good to be true:
fiction

Luke, city snow is never staying nice for long, but still, I LOVE SNOW! I mean, just to watch it fall.

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#187259 - 10/12/09 04:31 PM Re: Aureolin [Re: BranShea]
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If I could I would move to Fiji or Tahiti, and never had to
see snow again except on a calendar picture, it would suit me
just fine. But if you enjoy it: great. Everyone has things
they like and dislike.

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#187265 - 10/12/09 06:26 PM Re: ecru [Re: LukeJavan8]
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That's right. I would greatly dislike it if you would use the words 'totally toppie' in my virtual presence. (cross threaded)

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#187269 - 10/12/09 10:08 PM Re: ecru [Re: BranShea]
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[swooning sigh e] Oh, Branny, you are just...no no no, I won't say it! laugh

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#187277 - 10/13/09 04:40 PM Re: ecru [Re: Jackie]
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Around here the loveliness of new fallen snow is quickly deformed by the passing of the sand and salt trucks to what we locals call "snirt". This is a combination of snow covered by a layer of dirt resembling a small glacial morain. It renders the curbs and corners ugly.

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#187280 - 10/13/09 06:49 PM Re: ecru [Re: kah454]
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we woke up to a couple of inches of wet, white stuff today. still some around, up here on the higher elevation. not ready for snow cover yet, please.

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#187284 - 10/13/09 08:15 PM Re: ecru [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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We had five inches here on Saturday morning.
Our leaves on trees nowhere as magnificent as yours, but
they are sometimes nice too look at in places if not covered
in snow. Too early for sure.

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#187292 - 10/14/09 07:25 AM Re: ecru [Re: LukeJavan8]
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Some say that premature snowfall predicts a mild winter.

SNOW DUST

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given me
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued. ---------- Robert Frost (1874-19630)

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#187295 - 10/14/09 07:41 AM Re: ecru [Re: BranShea]
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great poem. thanks for sharing!

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#187302 - 10/14/09 12:25 PM Re: ecru [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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Frost is a favorite of mine as well.
(Tho' I still don't like snow all that much.)

Hemlock?
Reminds me Edgar A. Poe was "reburied" last week.


Edited by LukeJavan8 (10/14/09 12:26 PM)
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#187317 - 10/15/09 03:57 AM Re: ecru [Re: LukeJavan8]
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Do you refer to E.A.Poe for hemlock as a possible cause of death, or to the last passage in this rather obscure piece of writing by Poe?
link

'Numerous other causes of death have been proposed.
More recently, credible evidence that Poe's death resulted from rabies has been presented.
On October 10, 2009, Poe received a "do-over" funeral where "actors portraying Poe's contemporaries and other long-dead writers and artists payed their respects, reading eulogies adapted from their writings about Poe". The funeral included a replica of Poe's casket and wax cadaver.' (wiki)

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#187328 - 10/15/09 12:08 PM Re: ecru [Re: BranShea]
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The hemlock reminded me of Socrates, wasn't it?
I'm a fan of Poe, but this one was new to me. Thanks.


Also (regarding his funeral) only about 10 people were at the
first funeral, as it was not announced at the time.


Edited by LukeJavan8 (10/15/09 12:09 PM)
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#187331 - 10/15/09 09:23 PM Re: ecru [Re: LukeJavan8]
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only about 10 people were at the
first funeral, as it was not announced at the time.
Really? I didn't know that. How come?

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