A black carbon pigment made from charred ivory or (now usually) bone, used in drawing and painting.
象牙墨（一种由烧成炭的象牙或现在多为骨头制成的黑色碳素染料，用于素描和绘画）
Example sentencesExamples
For the nine paintings in this exhibition, Howell mixed titanium white, ivory black and raw umber - the raw umber prevents bluing - in carefully calculated ratios to achieve what he calls ‘a movement of gray toward light and dark.’
The eight colours are white, ivory black, cadmium red scarlet, manganese blue, ultramarine blue, lemon yellow, cadmium yellow, talens green light.
Definition of ivory black in US English:
ivory black
noun
A black carbon pigment made from charred ivory or (now usually) bone, used in drawing and painting.
象牙墨（一种由烧成炭的象牙或现在多为骨头制成的黑色碳素染料，用于素描和绘画）
Example sentencesExamples
For the nine paintings in this exhibition, Howell mixed titanium white, ivory black and raw umber - the raw umber prevents bluing - in carefully calculated ratios to achieve what he calls ‘a movement of gray toward light and dark.’
The eight colours are white, ivory black, cadmium red scarlet, manganese blue, ultramarine blue, lemon yellow, cadmium yellow, talens green light.