Uber Umbers and Other Colors from the Earth

Cleopatra’s Garden by Margret E. Short28″ x 22″ – Oil Throughout the ages, since the very first scrawls were made in caves and tribal hunting events were recorded on walls, people have been using colors made of ochres, umbers, madders, bugs, mummies, minerals, shells, iron oxides, and plants. These pigments decorated sheets of papyrus, vellum,...