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Deborah Hawkins, penned Debra Renée Byrd, began writing after a blank book project in elementary school and never stopped, fashioning stories based on her favorite TV shows and movies before creating more original works. She studied at the University of the Arts and Florida State University before settling down and graduating from Temple University. She now resides in her hometown of Dover, DE, where she spends most of her time at work or at church. She loves fantasies, superheroes, is a trekkie and a brown coat. She loves television and lives for Final Fantasy video games, having collected most of them. She has read a myriad of authors, and her favorite authors change whenever she finds a new book that changes her life... "When you can't run, you crawl. When you can't crawl...well, you know the rest." -Tracey, Firefly, "The Message"

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

A to Z Challenge: Writing Colors - Raw Umber


Welcome to Week 4 of the A to Z Challenge!

This year, I have been providing different colors for descriptive purposes in writing using the website Color-ize to look at an alphabetical list of colors that we can use instead of using the same basic colors we know off the top of our heads. One color can come in so many shades; why not take a look at them?

Today's color is: Raw Umber.


This is a rich, tasty color. "Brown" sometimes is just not enough, and there are many ways to go, from a light, golden brown, to this dark, cool tone. I don't know if you would ever describe a person as having raw umber skin, but maybe dark umber would suffice. Umber is a pretty word to me. :)

What do you think?

3 comments:

Jackie said...

What a gorgeous color! And I agree, umber is a pretty word.

Chrys Fey said...

I have never heard of this one. For browns I've used words like nutmeg, cinnamon, mahogany, coffee, chestnut, amber, whiskey, and even peanut butter to describe the color. :)

Scribbles From Jenn said...

I love the word and the color. Just before Christmas I stained the kids bathroom cabinet a color very similar to this. I don't think I'd use it to describe skin tone, since it would probably confuse most, but I definitely would use it as the name of a character.

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