Touching pattern - a carpet should not be bedizzened out like a Riccaree Indian - all red chalk,
yellow ochre, and cock's feathers.
A party of Indians -- in their savage finery of curiously embroidered deerskin robes, wampum-belts, red and
yellow ochre, and feathers, and armed with the bow and arrow and stone-headed spear -- stood apart with countenances of inflexible gravity, beyond what even the Puritan aspect could attain.
Colors such as terracotta,
yellow ochre, tan and moss green may seem the obvious choice.
"Why is this / like this" the speaker asks in Analicia Sotelo's poem "Father Fragments (Or,
Yellow Ochre)." It is a child's question, but the adults in the poem ask their share of questions too.
Using a 15" x 20" sheet of thick watercolor paper, we started with a light-valued background of blue that had been neutralized with
yellow ochre and white.
second quarter 20th century, seven dancers on a variegated
yellow ochre background, (a few stains), 117x62 1/2 in.
I pre-wet the whole building with clean water and then filled in with Charles Evans Sand, quickly dropping in well-watered
yellow ochre to the light side and then raw umber to the darker side.
The range of colors that can be produced from the oxide varies from
yellow ochre to orange to red and black.
More of these haunting drawings were made at St Bride's in Fleet Street, and Christ Church in Newgate Street, the latter sketched in 1941 using the same tones of rose red,
yellow ochre and sable to convey the total wipe out of a place of erstwhile devotion.
Nearby, cast in the design of a warrior, albeit glazed and adorned with a splash of
yellow ochre at the (ring-free) "head," is the 2000 work "Dionysus."
Using the same round brush, I dampen the whole area quickly, dropping in
yellow ochre followed by raw umber and a little light red here and there followed by a few touches of cobalt blue.
Despite the strength of his early works--Western Air, 1946-47, say, or Personage, with
Yellow Ochre and White, 1947--Motherwell remained ever the aesthete.