19 February 2024 – Jacques Herbin Terre d’Ombre


Brown may be one of my favorite “non-basic” ink colors. Blue, black, red… are there other standard inks in your mind? This brown is, just like the rest of these Jacques Herbin inks, simply magnificent.

Jacques Herbin Terre d’Ombre
Roots in soil
“For a warm earthy palette, add Raw Umber, Cadmium Red Light, Burnt Umber, and Olive Green.” -Lisa Buck-Goldstein. “The color brown, I realized, is anything but nondescript. It comes in as many hues as there are colors of earth, which is commonly presumed infinite.” -Barbara Kingsolver

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