This is a warm, earthy orange-red whose transparency gives off a jewel-like glow when used in glazing techniques. Ideal for landscapes, florals, botanicals, wildlife, and still life work, Transparent Red is also useful to warm flesh tones in portraiture and figurative work.

Artist Notes: The granular nature of Transparent Red can be used to great effect in heavy washes on cold pressed paper.

Paint Maker’s Notes: Iron oxides are pigments that have been used on all continents humans have continually inhabited since pre-history.

Transparency: Transparent

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 palettes: Large Night Garden Palette.