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Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Half Pan - Raw Umber

Watercolor Half Pan

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Product details
Blick SKU
01683-8070
About this product range
  • Professional quality
  • Widest color range available on the market
  • Same renowned formula as Daniel Smith tube colors
  • Compact and portable for plein air or travel
  • Hand-poured in the USA

Daniel Smith Watercolor Half Pans and Sets are a tribute to paint craft and color innovation. Made with the same expertly milled, concentrated pigments and pure gum arabic formula as the brand’s professional watercolor tubes, each pan is meticulously hand-poured over several months in Seattle. The result is even pigment dispersion and powerful, responsive color that activates instantly with a wet brush.

With a dazzling range of over 200 colors—including many truly unique pigments found only from Daniel Smith—artists can curate the perfect palette for any style or subject. Every batch is rigorously tested and analyzed to meet and exceed the highest industry standards, so you can trust that your work will stand the test of time.

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.

Raw Umber

Pigment code
PBr7
Type
earth
Chemical name
hydrated iron oxide
Chemical formula
α-FeO3+(OH) or Fe2O3 × MnO2
Properties
Raw Umber is a cool, transparent brown ranging from yellowish brown to greenish brown. It has surprisingly good tinting strength, a high level of opacity, mixes well with greens, and is quick drying in oil form. It has excellent color properties and can create a variety of subtle, clear tints when mixed with white. It grays when mixed with blue and white. Raw Umber can tend towards chalkiness in dark mixes in oil form.
Permanence
Raw Umber has excellent permanence.
Toxicity
Raw Umber itself is considered non-toxic. If contaminated by manganese compounds, it may be highly toxic if inhaled and moderately toxic if ingested.
History
This pigment gets its name from the Latin word umbra, meaning shadow or shade. Its full name is listed as terra di ombra, meaning earth of shadow/shade, due to its original extraction from the area of Umbria, Italy. It has been used as a pigment since prehistoric times. Currently, the finest umber comes from Cyprus.
Description
Chestnut Brown, Euchrome, Jacaranta Brown, Mars Brown, Raw Brown, Sicilian Brown. Cyprus Umber, Turkey Brown, and Turkey Umber are the best quality umbers.

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