Category: Earth

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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Transparent Brown Oxide PR101

Brown Oxide or Brown Iron Oxide is a color that several different manufacturers have in their respective ranges. This text is mainly about the paint from Daniel Smith which has the name Transparent Brown…

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Verona green (PG23)

Traditionally, there are many different shades of green earth, all different depending on where they come from. But two sources of green earth are particularly well known, namely Bohemia and Verona. Verona green in…

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Quinacridone maroon (PR206) Discontinued

The pigment is no longer manufactured, if you find someone who has the color why not buy while it lasts. Quinacridone maroon is a semi-transparent, very light resistant, staining reddish brown color that was…