Eight retired colors — including raw umber and blizzard blue — are back for the Crayola Experience Million Crayon Giveaway, which starts later this month. Participants can choose to include the ...

One early autumn morning in San Francisco a few years ago, I walked into an art store on Market Street. I moved along an aisle of paints, gawking at the brilliant yellows and blues before finding ...

The umber pigment was first made from Italian soil. Kelly Grovier looks at how a shade of brown came to depict sinfulness and shadow. Umber is a conundrum, a rusty riddle of a colour. A cross between ...

You know the thrill you get when you discover a great writer, when the writer echoes truths that you knew, so deep down that you didn’t even know you knew them. You read this writer and you are like – ...

Memoirs are striking chords with readers – last year there was Deepti Naval’s In a Country Called Childhood and now there is Sara Rai’s Raw Umber. One might wonder at the name, taken from a painter’s ...