Bistre

Reddish-brown, marone, bistre with a golden light in it, suited her to perfection. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We're victims, we say: mere vessels, drinking the vanilla scent of this one's skin, the lustre of another's eyes so skilfully darkened with bistre. ❋ Sharon Bakar (2004)

Viewed from the harbour, it is a long line of buildings, whose painful whiteness is set off by a sky-like cobalt and a sea-like indigo; behind it lies the flat, here of a bistre-brown, there of a lively tawny; whilst the background is formed by dismal Radhwah, ❋ Unknown (2003)

Since he used to meet her in the house of the Rue Cassini, she had grown stout, and now had a double chin; but her hair was still unbleached, and her bistre complexion preserved its tinge as of old. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The chin-lines were sharpened, the eyes more sunken, while the shadows beneath them were as dark as though they were plastered on with bistre. ❋ Unknown (2003)

-- Black, white, and Spanish liquorice, mixed; shaded with black and bistre; the inner part of the nose, vermilion and white, shaded with black. ❋ Daniel Young (N/A)

Various brown inks, principally solutions of bistre and sepia, were adopted in sketching by Claude, Rembrandt, and many of the old masters. ❋ George Field (N/A)

-- Brown ochre, red ochre, and black, mixed; shaded with bistre and ivory black. ❋ Daniel Young (N/A)

According to Bouvier, a colour similar to that of bistre, and rivalling asphaltum in transparency, is produced by partially charring a moderately dark Prussian blue; neither one too intense, which gives a heavy and opaque brownish-red, nor one too aluminous and bright, which yields a feeble and yellowish tint. ❋ George Field (N/A)

-- Black lightly laid on, shaded with Keating's black and bistre, heightened with masticot. ❋ Daniel Young (N/A)

Raw sienna compounded with cobalt, indigo, or Prussian blue, and a very little bistre, yields good sea greens, that with indigo being the most fugitive. ❋ George Field (N/A)

If this be in sepia or bistre, the copy can be autotyped in those colours; or if a red chalk drawing be required to be multiplied, the proofs may be in red chalk, the copy when produced to the same scale being scarcely distinguishable from the original. ❋ George Field (N/A)

His drawings are generally in pen outline, with a wash of bistre, or other warm colour; sometimes he makes use of black and red chalk; they are seldom finished with colours, but have often portions rendered lighter and broader by means of a wash of white. ❋ John Burnet (N/A)

-- Lake and flake white, shaded with carmine; bistre and vermilion shaded with black. ❋ Daniel Young (N/A)

A substance of this kind collects at the back of fire-places in cottages where peat is the constant fuel burnt; which, purified by solution and evaporation, yields a fine bistre, similar to the Scotch. ❋ George Field (N/A)

It is much used as a water-colour, and for making drawings in the manner of bistre and Indian ink; but is not employed in oil, as it dries therein very reluctantly. ❋ George Field (N/A)

Once sparingly used in water as a sort of substitute for bistre, it is not now to be met with on the palette. ❋ George Field (N/A)

All kinds of bistre attract moisture from the atmosphere. ❋ George Field (N/A)