ONE THAT COMES IN A PACKAGING THAT IS INNOVATIVE, ELEGANT, HANDY AND FEELS RIGHT.
This Burnt Earth Green is an opaque, warm earth colour, great for mixing neutral skin tones. But it also provides perfect shadow colours when combined with ultramarine. The synthetic form of Mars Orange is made from iron oxides and is cleaner, brighter, and denser than its ochre-based counterparts.
Evidently, Earth colours are considered essential for your colour palette. Some earth colours are warmer than others because they possess more red than blue.
Individual brown pigments (earth colour) are biased towards red, yellow, and blue, delineated by their inclusion of all three primary colours, red, yellow and blue. However, the transparent colour is helpful in the glazing technique.
COMPOSITION AND PERMANENCE
Pigment Combination: PBk7-Lamp Black; PY42-Mars Orange; PG7-Phthalo Green
1 PIGMENT NAME: PBK7-LAMP BLACK
Pigment Type: Inorganic
Chemical Name: Carbon
Properties
Lampblack is a very opaque, heavily staining black pigment that does not have much covering or tinting power. It is typically the opaquest black in watercolour form. Though a very pure black, it tends to muddy slightly in mixtures. Natural sources may be brownish or bluish in tone because of impurities. When used in oil paints, it is one of the slowest drying pigments and should not be used in underpainting or applied in layers underneath other colours.
Permanence
Lamp Black is very lightfast and permanent. It is used in all techniques in permanent painting.
Toxicity
Carbon itself is not considered hazardous; however, other hazardous combustion products are often present as impurities when Lamp Black is produced from natural materials. For this reason, commercial preparations of the pigment should be considered.
History
Lamp Black is a carbon-based black traditionally produced by collecting soot (known as lampblack) from oil lamps. It has been used as a pigment since prehistoric times. It is the black found in Egyptian murals and tomb decorations and was the most popular black for fresco painting until the development of Mars Black.
2 Pigment Name: PY42-Mars Orange
Pigment Type: Inorganic, earth
Chemical Name: Iron oxide
Properties
Mars Orange is a bright, extremely light red and appears almost pinkish compared to darker colours. It has incredible tinting strength and opacity. The synthetic form of Mars Orange is made from iron oxides and is cleaner, brighter, and denser than its ochre-based counterparts.
Permanence
Mars Orange has excellent permanence and lightfastness.
Toxicity
Mars Orange has no significant hazards.
History
The word Mars refers to the Roman god of iron and war. Mars Orange has been manufactured as a pigment since the 17th century.
3 Pigment Name: PG7-Phthalo Green
Pigment Type: Organic
Chemical Name: Polychlorinated copper (II) phthalocyanine
Properties
Phthalo Green is a transparent, cool, bright, high-intensity colour used in oil and acrylics. It comes from a Phthalocyanine Blue pigment where most hydrogen atoms have been replaced with chlorine, forming highly stable molecules. It has similar pigment properties and permanence to Phthalo Blue. It is slow drying and excellent base colour for mixing a range of bright greens. Phthalo Green is considered an excellent alternative to Viridian because it is intense and mixes well, and can be used to emphasize mineral colours in various tints. However, its tinting strength is very high so that it can overpower other colours. This pigment most closely resembles the discontinued and toxic Verdigris.
Permanence
Phthalo Greens are completely lightfast and resistant to alkali, acids, solvents, heat, and ultraviolet radiation. Due to their stability, they are currently used in inks, coatings, and many plastics and are considered a standard pigment in printing ink and the packaging industry.
Toxicity
Phthalo Green has no significant hazards, but it contained PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) until 1982.
History
This bright blue-green was developed in 1935 and has been in use since
