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Natural Earth Paint Earth & Mineral Pigment - Raw Sienna, 3 oz

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Product details
Blick SKU
00523-8063
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

General reference notes about pigments can describe other media (such as oil). They do not verify this product’s exact formulation or behavior.

Brown Ochre

Pigment code
PY43
Chemical name
iron(III)-oxide, partly hydrated
Chemical formula
Fe2O3(• H2O)
Properties
Brown Ochre provides artists with earthtones from cream to brown and is a dull, dark variety of Yellow Ochre. Its transparency varies widely from opaque shades to more transparent ones, which are valued for their use as glazes. It has good hiding power, produces a quick drying paint, and can be safely mixed with other pigments. The highest quality Brown Ochre comes from Cyprus, where it is yellow in its raw form and is roasted to get the deeper brown-red varieties that result when water is removed. (See Yellow Ochre, PY42/43.)
Permanence
Brown Ochre has excellent permanence.
Toxicity
Brown Ochre is non-toxic.
History
Ochre comes from the Greek word ochros, meaning pale yellow. It has been used since prehistoric times, and evidence of its use has been found in some of the earliest known cave paintings in Lascaux, France. It has also been called Goethite, after the German philosopher and mineralogist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).
Description
Goethite, Yellow Ochre.

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