Yavapai Genuine, made from earthy-brown stone, is a mellow pink-brown granulating paint.
Burgundy Red Ochre, a surprisingly transparent natural ochre, is a rich and deep earthy pigment. This pigment comes from Burgundy, France and is especially noteworthy for its lovely granulation in watercolor.
Terre Ercolano is also rather vibrant, and even redder than the burnt siennas. Transparent Red Oxide is a significant contrast to the vivid synthetic oranges. It is a rustier orange, completely lightfast, with beautiful granulation is washes. Transparent Brown Oxide is a rich, warm brown with the interesting granulating effects produced with iron oxide.
Notice on the color map how cleanly Quinacridone Burnt Orange plots in comparison to any of the Burnt Siennas-it's also more golden. Lunar Earth is a DANIEL SMITH exclusive-close in color to Burnt Sienna and made with iron oxide, it produces a fascinating separation effect in washes.
Mummy Bauxite is made from inorganic Bauxite, a mixture of aluminum and iron oxides. This warm cinnamon color granulates more dramatically than Burnt Sienna to resemble the look of rusted iron.
English Red Earth, Venetian Red and Indian Red are dense, flat, opaque inorganic colors. Venetian Red is redder and Indian Red is browner. English Red Earth falls between them and produces smooth, even washes.
Italian Venetian Red is more granular and slightly browner. Italian Burnt Sienna is similar to our standard Burnt Sienna with a higher chroma and slightly warmer, brighter tone.
Sedona Genuine, Hematite Burnt Scarlet and Minnesota Pipestone, three of the PrimaTek® Series colors, are noteworthy for their remarkable working properties. Sedona Genuine matches the ruddy red rock from Arizona that it is manufactured from. Hematite Burnt Scarlet is created from authentic Hematite that has a higher red iron oxide content than our Hematite Genuine. It is a rich rusty-orange hue that granulates to create dark orange-brown areas. Minnesota Pipestone has become a favorite of portrait artists for its subtle brown-pink hue. Pipestone, or genuine Catlinite, creates a creamy and earthy paint with a warm undertone.
Higher chroma Cadmium Red Deep is another of our low-soluble cadmium colors.
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We now move on to four of my favorites: Quinacridone Burnt Scarlet, Permanent Brown, Perylene Maroon and Deep Scarlet-all unique colors. They all are rich, saturated, high tinting colors that are sedimentary and move from very dark red-browns to glowing washes. Permanent Brown and Deep Scarlet are created from a small group of pigments called azo pigments, known for their outstanding lightfastness. Lastly, Anthraquinoid Red, a vat pigment, is a warm, granular violet-red, lightfast rated I-Excellent. For those interested in permanence, it is a good replacement for Alizarin Crimson, although it does not mix as cleanly.
The last division within the yellow to red section contains the rich dark brown earth colors and three subtle natural pinks: Tiger's Eye Genuine (97), Raw Umber (98), Burnt Tiger's Eye Genuine (99), Burnt Umber (100), Lunar Red Rock (101), Pinkcolor (102), Rose Madder Genuine (103), Hematite (104), Sepia (105), Van Dyck Brown (106), Hematite Violet (107) and Raw Umber Violet (108).
The majority of today's brown pigments are still obtained from the earth. The principle color-producing agent is iron oxide, a material found in most rocks and earth.
Tiger's Eye and Burnt Tiger's Eye Genuine are made from the light refracting gemstone. Layers of quartz containing iron oxides give this stone its characteristc glow and, in paint, produce heavy granulation that closely resembles the shades found in Tiger's Eye stones. Burnt Tiger's Eye Genuine is made with stones that have been baked, or calcined, before being ground into pigment, to create a warm reddish tone.
Dimonite, one type of iron ore, colors the ochres. Siennas have increased iron oxide content, while umbers have an increase in manganese oxide content. These pigments are not too far removed from the colors used by the cave painters. Our Van Dyck Brown, a blend of siennas and umbers, is lightfast, unlike many others. One unique color, Raw Umber Violet, is a mixture of raw umber with quinacridone violet, which gives the earthy sedimentary color a slight hint of burgundy.
Lunar Red Rock is a DANIEL SMITH exclusive that is an extremely granulating red iron oxide.
Rose Madder Genuine, a classic earthy pale pink, is derived from the roots of the madder plant. It remains popular despite low tinting strength and marginal lightfastness. Pinkcolor, a pale grayed pink, was a key color in 18th-century English watercolors and is lightfast.
Hematite and Hematite Violet are made from genuine Hematite but differ in hue due to the variety of mineral content that Hematite can contain. Hematite has a warm yellow undertone while Hematite Violet has a striking purple hue.
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