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