Our Caput Mortuum is a beautiful, very granular maroon-violet, perfect for creating wet washes with an interesting granular quality. Use this colour to create shadows in landscapes, and to convey texture in botanicals, wildlife, and pet portraits.

Artist Notes: Caput Mortuum is a wonderful choice in landscapes where textural effects are desired. This moody colour is ideal for dusky scenes.

Paint Maker’s Notes: From Latin for ‘Dead Head’, Caput Mortuum pigment can range in colour from dull red-violet, to deep, dark earthy brown-violet.

Transparency: Opaque

Staining: Semi-Staining

Granularity: Granular

Pigment Number: PR 101

Pigment Type: Synthetic Inorganic

Pigment Composition: Iron Oxide

Lightfastness: I - Excellent

Toxicity: Non Toxic

Available in the following Stoneground palettes: Small Earth Palette.