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Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Half Pan - Yellow Ochre

Watercolor Half Pan

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Product details
Blick SKU
01683-4040
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.

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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