Potter’s Pink
In the late 18th century, an unknown potter invented a colorant that later became known as Potter’s Pink. The pigment is produced by calcining tin oxide together with various other oxides at high temperatures….
Category: Earth
Orange-brown favorites
It may sound strange to describe colours as orange-brown.The reason is to distinguish them from other brownish colours that lean toward yellow or red – those will be treated separately. There are so many…
Burnt and raw
Some earth colors occur in both burnt and raw forms. This applies mainly to siennas and umbers, which often have these designations added to their names. Occasionally, other earth colors may also have such…
Benzimidazolone Brown (Pbr25)
Benzimidazolone Brown is a very popular ingredient in many mixed paints, but as a standalone pigment in watercolor, it is not as commonly used. This is a bit unfortunate because it’s a very pleasant…
Magnesium Ferrite (PBr11)
Magnesium Ferrite is a relatively new pigment, created in 1962, and only a few manufacturers of watercolor paints use it. It is produced through the calcination of a mixture of iron oxide and magnesium…
Transparent Yellow Oxide – PY42
The third and final color in Daniel Smith’s series of transparent and granulating mars browns discussed here is the yellow color. The other two are Transparent Red Oxide and Transparent Brown Oxide. Transparent Yellow…
Perylene Maroon (PR179)
The pigment PR179 was created in 1957, it is a very intense, very durable, fairly staining and transparent red-brown dye. It is common as a watercolor paint, usually with the name Perylene Maroon. As…
Ocher, the oldest color
Ocher is a truly ancient pigment. Already during the early Stone Age in Africa it has been used. Archaeologists have found evidence of the use of red ocher before humans were homo sapiens 300,000…
Transparent red oxide
There are many manufacturers of the paint called Red Oxide or Red Iron Oxide, sometimes with the addition of transparent to the name. Common to all of them, and even more with other names,…
