Another month has begun, so it’s time for another color list. The color for November will be brown as it seems a month rich with so many earthly things.
For the uninitiated, the idea here is to come up with ways to evoke brown without mentioning the color itself because one of the challenges in writing effective descriptions is getting the color just right. Each month on this blog we work on one color, so far we’ve done orange, red, green, pink, blue, and yellow.
My own list for brown is rather long, so I thought it would be fun to first hand the baton over to you, my readers, to see what you can come up with. So I’ll start with just a few words, and leave it to you to find nouns and adjectives that bring brown to mind. Here’s my start:
amber
bark
chocolate
mocha
Nutty
Mud
Earth
Nutella
Hazelnut
Walnut
Maple
Excrement
Teak
Dark Beer
Hershey
Cocoa
🙂
Ooh, I love the color idea.
Latte
Acorn
Mahogany
Oak
Chestnut
Ash brown
Deer
Moose
Sable
Bay (horse color)
Sorrel
Camel
Copper
Sepia
Tan
Russet
Caramel
coffee
coffee grounds
loam
fudge
leather
I seem to have a food bent today (been cooking this week):
hot cocoa
cinnamon
portabello mushrooms
almond
pecan
brick
dead sweet gum leaves
garden in winter
amber
sand
terra cotta pot
cider
walnut
mahogany
locust leaves in fall
latigo
oak
biscotti
gingerbrea
pine bark
peanut butter
roasted turkey
caramel
Looking forward to more of your list
Mocah
Chestnut
Butterscotch
English Tea
Bears, eyes, sparrows, my garden, boots, meatloaf, and whiskey.
Wow! Thank you all for contributing! Esp. the good and the ugly (The Desert Rocks!)
I don't have many to add now as you all thought of way more than I did, but I love how different perceptions come together here. My additions:
bronze
tiger eye
Guinness
What a fantastic idea! Here are mine:
suntan
meatloaf
firewood
fencepost
chocolate milkshake
compost
paper bag
acorn
otter
owl
toast
driftwood
cinnamon
molasses
honey
vinegar
brownies
Kahlua
root beer
Susanwriters – wow! You really went to town! Thanks for your contributions, I especially liked the paper bag!
wow- as always I am late and thus the words seem to have overflowed before me :)…great words…the truly evoked the color brown for me.
on a p.s. Annette- you'll be happy to note I have finally updated my 'about me' and even made it into a tab at the top of my page for all to see- thank you again!!!
I love this type of educational blog very much.Nice effort. Keep it on with this type of post……
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