Grumbacher Academy Oil Color - Yellow Ochre, 150 ml tube

Name: Grumbacher Academy Oil Color - Yellow Ochre, 150 ml tube
Brand: Grumbacher

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Product details

Size: 150 ml
Blick SKU: 00418-4044

About this product range

Grumbacher Academy Oils are available in a range of 45 highly pigmented colors offering superior tinting strength at an affordable student price. The line includes a variety of single-pigment colors, as well as mixed hues and metallics. Every color in the range boasts an ASTM lightfast rating of ‘1-Excellent’ and most correlate to the Pre-Tested Professional line, allowing students to graduate to a professional-grade paint with ease.

The majority of colors in the range are ground in pure linseed oil. Titanium White Soft is ground in a mixture of linseed and poppyseed oil. Titanium White, Unbleached Titanium White, Zinc White, Pale Pink, Lemon Yellow, and Thalo Silver are ground in sunflower oil.

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.

Yellow Iron Oxide

Pigment code: PY42
Chemical name: iron(III)-oxide, hydrated
Chemical formula: Fe2O3 • H2O
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.
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 Ochre, Yellow Oxide. Varieties of Yellow Ochre include Brown Ochre, Flesh Ochre, Roman Ochre, Spruce Ochre, and Transparent Gold Ochre.