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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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red
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Remember that these figurines were often painted with red ochre .
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Similarly, many of the figurines and relief sculptures of the Goddess found in the later caves were painted in red ochre .
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Significantly, the statue appears to have been colored with red ochre , a clue to her status as sacred art.
yellow
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I use ultramarine, yellow ochre and crimson.
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White acrylic mixed with cadmium orange, yellow ochre or burnt sienna allows Martin to overlap and cross-hatch.
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His face had been painted with yellow ochre .
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This is a mixture of yellow ochre and burnt umber applied to previously dampened paper.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A three-storeyed neo-classical frontage of immense length, the ground level is in grey stone, the upper storeys in pale ochre .
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All the surfaces were pale ochre mud and dung which the women plastered over stone each year.
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Humble houses were cobbled together from leavings stuccoed over and painted in pastel tones of pink, ochre and yellow.
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I use ultramarine, yellow ochre and crimson.
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Remember that these figurines were often painted with red ochre .
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White acrylic mixed with cadmium orange, yellow ochre or burnt sienna allows Martin to overlap and cross-hatch.
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Yellow ochre is a colour I often use for both undercoats and overpainting, having a good semi-transparent quality.