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Natural Earth Paint Earth & Mineral Pigment - Violet Ochre, 3 oz

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Product details
Blick SKU
00523-6113
About this product range
  • Professional-quality dry pigments
  • Brilliant earth colors for creating custom mediums
  • Archival, lightfast, and eco-friendly
  • Free from additives, fillers, and heavy metals
  • Sustainably sourced with zero-waste packaging

Natural Earth Paint’s Earth & Mineral Pigments offer artists the world’s most permanent colors in their purest form—completely free of fillers, stabilizers, solvents, preservatives, or synthetic additives. From warm ochres to luminous ultramarine, these finely ground pigments boast exceptional permanence. When properly stored, they remain impervious to fading and degradation, offering artists unparalleled purity and the longest-lasting color performance.

Sustainably sourced from small quarries worldwide and expertly ground in Ashland, Oregon, this collection was developed to help artists maintain a non-toxic studio. Mix them with a range of binders to create your own non-toxic, eco-conscious art media—from oil watercolor paints to gouache, egg tempera, inks, encaustics, and even modeling clays.

Pigment information

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Natural Light Red Iron Oxide

Pigment code
PR102
Type
inorganic, natural
Chemical name
iron oxide
Chemical formula
Fe2O2
Properties
Natural Light Red Iron Oxide is a brick red pigment with a bright, scarlet top tone. Mineral sources vary considerably in both hue and transparency. It is generally opaque and has great tinting strength and hiding power, but more transparent versions are available. It creates salmon pinks when mixed with white. Natural Light Red Iron Oxide is often replaced by Mars colors or bright red oxides, which are cleaner and more powerful.
Permanence
Natural Light Red Iron Oxide has excellent permanence and lightfastness.
Toxicity
Natural Light Red Iron Oxide has no significant hazards.
History
Natural red iron oxide comes from the mineral ore hematite, called bloodstone by the ancient Greeks from the word hema, meaning blood. It is one of the oldest pigments, has been used by every major civilization, and was an important mineral for medieval alchemists. It was not widely used in artists' materials until the 17th century and was not produced in large quantities until the 18th century.
Description
Antwerp Red, Bole, Light Red, Colcothar, English Red, Morelle Salt, Persian Red, Persian Gulf Oxide, Poliment, Pompeian Red, Prussian Brown, Prussian Red, Red Iron Oxide, Sinopia, Spanish Red, Turkey Red.

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