
Product details
- Size
- 946 ml
- Blick SKU
- 00620-4047
About this product range
- Renowned professional quality
- Pure pigments in high concentrations
- 100% acrylic emulsion; no fillers, dyes, or opacifiers
- Highly lightfast and permanent
- Made in the USA
For artists seeking brilliant color, rich textures, and lasting performance, Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Colors are among the world’s very best. Golden's original acrylic line, the Heavy Body range includes the widest selection of single pigment colors in an acrylic format. Custom-milled to bring out the best qualities of each pigment, the resulting range includes glossy, transparent, matte, and opaque finishes—100% free from fillers or matting agents. The result? Complete color clarity and purity, straight from the tube.
Celebrated for their ability to hold brushstrokes and palette knife textures, these colors can also be extended with mediums for luminous, fluid glazes. No matter your technique, Golden Heavy Body Acrylics deliver reliable performance and striking results.
Pigment information
General reference notes about pigments can describe other media (such as oil). They do not verify this product’s exact formulation or behavior.
Yellow Ochre
- Pigment code
- PY43
- Type
- earth
- Chemical name
- iron(III)-oxide, hydrated
- Chemical formula
- Fe2O3H2O
- Properties
- Yellow Ochre provides artists with earthtones from cream to brown. It has good hiding power, produces a quick drying paint, and can be safely mixed with other pigments. Its transparency varies widely from opaque shades to more transparent ones, which are valued for their use as glazes. If gypsum is present, Yellow Ochre is not suitable for frescoing. (See Brown Ochre, PY43.) PY42 is made from synthetic iron oxides. PY43 is made from natural iron oxide.
- Permanence
- Yellow Ochre has excellent permanence because ochres are some of the most permanent pigments available.
- Toxicity
- Yellow Ochre is non-toxic unless it contains manganese.
- History
- Ochre comes from the Greek word ochros, meaning pale yellow. It was one of the first pigments to be used by human beings, and evidence of its use has been found at 300,000 year old sites in France and the former Czechoslovakia.
- Description
- Chamois, Iron Yellow, Mars Orange, Mars Yellow, Minette, Ochre, Sil, Yellow Earth, Yellow Oxide. Varieties of Yellow Ochre include Brown Ochre, Flesh Ochre, Roman Ochre, Spruce Ochre, and Transparent Gold Ochre.
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