Quinacridone maroon (PR206)
Quinacridone maroon is a semi-transparent, very light resistant, staining reddish brown color that was invented in 1958. It has many uses. It acts as a value reducer for many blue and green colors. Despite…
Category: Earth
Quinacridone orange (PO48)
Quinacridone orange is a transparent, staining and very intense orange earth-colored pigment that first saw the light of day in 1958. A property, which it unfortunately shares with several other watercolor paints, is that…
Van Dyke brown
Van Dyke brown is a classic color, named after the Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyck. The color is also known as cassel earth and cologne earth. The material traditionally used for the pigment is…
Venetian red
The color Venetian red is the same as Indian red, the only difference is that Venetian red is often slightly lighter and more orange in color. The color is as old as human culture, Venetian…
Burnt Sienna
Sienna is in its original form a yellow-brown earth color. If you heat up the natural sienna pigment, it becomes redder and darker. This red and dark color is called burnt, the original is…
Raw Sienna
Raw sienna is an ancient pigment, used at least since Roman times. The name comes from the original deposit where suitable soil was found near Arcidosso which was previously under the control of Siena,…
Earth colors
Earth colors, the name itself has character, it says that the color is original, genuine, natural. Nothing can be further from the truth. The traditional index names for true earth colors are PBr7 and…
