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These colors contain smaller amounts of green and yellow, are lighter in value and range from low to moderate tinting power. Natural mineral or earth colors are not high chroma, pure hue colors. Leaning optically towards their color complements, they mix less cleanly than colors in the other two groups, but have nature's subtlety.
Kingman Turquoise Genuine, made from the classic blue-green turquoise mined in Arizona, is a low-staining paint with exquisite graduations of light and color. Fuchsite Genuine is created with the pearly-green mineral Fuchsite. Ours comes from Russia and, when ground into pigment, produces a paint that retains the shimmer and luminous qualities resulting from the mineral's mica-like qualities.
Terre Verte (green earth) mixes viridian and raw umber to imitate the classic underpainting color used by the Romans. Malachite Genuine, the best green available from ancient Egypt up through the Renaissance, is lightfast and transparent with low tinting strength. Cobalt Green Pale is by nature a very pale blue-green colorant. Bohemian Green Earth is another natural earth green, slightly yellower.
Zoisite Genuine is a dramatically granulating paint that creates interesting textures as it moves through water. Its granulating pattern ranges from an almost black hue to a dark, bottle green.
Chromium Green Oxide is a neutral, opaque flat green that can be used to soften other colors. Buff Titanium is a wonderful neutral sandy color. Surprisingly transparent, it layers well. Undersea Green, a mix of inorganic French ultramarine and organic quinacridone gold pigments, produces an atmospheric separation effect, even in light washes. In Naples Yellow, the mixture of cadmium yellow light and venetian red is neutralized by the opaque, milky character of zinc oxide, creating a warm golden yellow with a slight tint of orange. Olive Green gets its beautiful warm brown color from the raw umber and its clean green from a mixture of ultramarine blue and Aureolin. It is slightly granular and semi-transparent. Nickel Titanate Yellow is somewhat opaque in mass tone but lifts cleanly. It is a beautiful yellow-green others call Lemon Yellow Hue.
This large section begins with the pure chroma colors from bright yellow to orange, and then from orange to red. The first half of the outer edge contains: Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue (30), Hansa Yellow Medium (31), Hansa Yellow Deep (32), Nickel Azo Yellow (33), Rich Green Gold (34), Indian Yellow (35), New Gamboge (36), Cadmium Yellow Deep (37), Burgundy Yellow Ochre (38), Permanent Yellow Deep (39), Quinacridone Gold (40), Transparent Yellow Oxide (41), Permanent Orange (42), Pompeii Red (43),
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Cadmium Orange (44) and Quinacridone Sienna (45).
The bright yellow to orange colors begin with Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue, developed as an alternative to the standard cadmium colors on the market today. This blend of pigments is an exact color replacement for our Cadmium Yellow Medium with slightly better color strength and cleaner mixing properties.
Hansa Yellow Medium and Hansa Yellow Deep are modern pigments developed in the 1950s. Note on the color map the relationship of these two colors to the cadmiums; Hansa Yellow plots out as the "perfect yellow" and both are more saturated colors. Nickel Azo Yellow has the warmth of Hansa Yellow, but is paler and somewhat more neutral. Rich Green Gold is a semi-transparent yellow-green, wonderful for glazing and indispensable in landscapes. Our Indian Yellow and New Gamboge, unlike many other brands' colors of the same names, have an excellent reputation and a lightfastness rating of II-Very Good. Both granulate slightly, and create nice golden-orange/brown puddled edges. Indian Yellow is made with anthrapyrimidine yellow, one of four vat pigments we selected for our line.
Cadmium Yellow Deep (cp) is next. Semi-transparent and less pure than the Hansa Yellows, Cadmium Yellow Deep creates warm, slightly grainy mixtures.
Burgundy Yellow Ochre, an earthy ochre from Burgundy France, is a unique color with a higher chroma than standard Yellow Ochre.
Permanent Yellow Deep, a sunset color made with isoindolinone yellow, also has a lightfastness rating of II-Very Good. A rich, sedimentary near-orange in mass tone, it graduates to a glowing hot yellow in washes.
Quinacridone Gold, in a class of its own, has been our single most popular newcomer. Many watercolorists have replaced Raw Sienna with it, and as you'll note on the color map, it plots out as more vivid and cleaner than Raw Sienna. Quinacridone pigments (pronounced kwin ak' ri doan) range from gold, deep orange, coral and scarlet to rose, violet, magenta and maroon. They are "high-performance" transparent pigments that are lightfast, durable at all tinting levels, maintain outstanding clarity and color intensity, and are truly unequaled.
Transparent Yellow Oxide is earthy and leans towards brown, with handsome sedimentation in washes. Pompeii Red is a red-orange of unusually high chroma for a natural earth color. Two oranges, each with a slight bias towards yellow, are Permanent Orange and Cadmium Orange (cp). Though similar colors, the Permanent Orange is more yellow and slightly more saturated, and the Cadmium Orange is redder. On the color map, our Quinacridone Sienna, like Burnt Sienna, plots right on the orange line. It is transparent and considerably brighter than Burnt Sienna, ideal for glazing.
The second half of bright colors, orange to red, contains: Pyrrol Orange (46), Perinone Orange (47),
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