Gamblin 1980 Oils - PY43 Yellow Ochre
Gamblin’s approach is different. 1980 colours contain pure
pigments, the finest refined linseed oil, and marble dust (calcium carbonate).
Since oil painting began, these three ingredients have made more affordable colours.
Painters experience true colours without homogenized texture
or muddy colour mixtures. Gamblin's approach to using traditional raw materials and processes ensures that artists experience the luscious working properties they expect from their oil colours.
Yellow Ochre is a subtle yet valuable earth colour that has been
on painters’ palettes since painting began. It is pure, hydrated yellow iron
oxide (goethite) and indispensable for naturalistic colour mixing.
PIGMENT COMPOSITION AND PERMANENCE
- Pigment Name: PY43 Yellow Ochre (Natural hydrated iron (III)-oxide)
- Pigment Type: earth
PROPERTIES
Yellow Ochre provides artists with earth tones from cream to
brown. It has good hiding power, produces quick-drying paint, and can safely
mix 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.
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 humans used, and evidence of its use has been
found at 300,000-year-old sites in France and former Czechoslovakia.
