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.