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From the Dust of the Earth
The great old masters such as Leonardo da Vinci well understood the value of each earth color for painting flesh tones. Time and technology, though, have replaced many of their favorite earth pigments with more brilliant and convenient synthetic colors. Some traditional earth colors have survived on modern conventional palettes-namely Raw and Burnt Umber, Raw and Burnt Sienna, and Yellow Ochre. Yet many other superb earth tones have almost been forgotten. This is unfortunate because these subtle pigments from the earth are as useful as they ever were for painting marvelous and life like flesh tones.
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