What is "red ochre"

Usage examples of "red ochre".

I put a piece of red ochre in it, so it can hold a piece of your spirit and a piece of your totem s, but I think your amulet should hold one more thing.

Ayla turned the stone over in her hand again, then she took the amulet from around her neck, pried loose the knot that held the small pouch closed, and put the fossil cast into the leather bag beside the piece of red ochre.

Where the walls were exposed, black and red ochre paintings from some ancient artist transformed the smooth, rippled stone into multi-layered vistas - savannas where transparent beasts roamed.

To Jondalar's surprise, she loosened a layer of red ochre with a stick and gathered up the deep brownish red earth in both hands.

A typical example from the Magdalenian period is the old man of Chancelade in the Dordogne, covered with red ochre, with arms and legs folded and the vertical column bent to such a degree that the skeleton only occupies a space little more than two feet long and sixteen inches wide.

What you need on your palette for a standard Dutch face is red lake, vermilion, red ochre and light ochre, umber, coal black, green earth and one of the yellows.

Meticulously, he drew the signs on the stone floor with lumps of charcoal, with sticks of red ochre, and with thin lines of powdery white sand like the finest sugar—.

The corridor narrowed and she saw strange symbols painted on and within the ice streaking the walls, dull red ochre in colour.