Stoneground Gouache - Raw Sienna Warm Shade

Raw Sienna is among the most useful earth pigments on an artist’s palette as it produces warm foundation tints and is invaluable for landscape and portrait painting.

Artists Notes: This useful colour mixes well with others and is well at home in wildlife paintings and pet portraits.

Opacity: Semi-Opaque

Paint Makers Notes: Along with ochres and umbers, sienna pigments were first used during pre-history. Siennas take their name from the Renaissance city state of Siena, in modern Italy.

Pigment Number: PY 43

Pigment Type: Synthetic Inorganic

Pigment Composition: Iron oxide hydroxide

Lightfastness: Not Rated

Toxicity: Non-Toxic