Luberon Raw Sienna Light Dispersion
Sienna is an iron oxide earth pigment that resembles yellow ocher. Unlike yellow ocher, which generally are opaque, sienna earths are more translucent and warmer. Luberon Raw Sienna Light is paler and cooler than Luberon Raw Sienna, both from deposits in southern France. Its undertone is greenish yellow, more so than any other natural sienna earth we have found. Rulbev Colours Luberon Raw Sienna Light is from the last remaining European company operating the ocher deposits in the French quarries of Gargas and Rustrel nested in a 12 mile long enclave in the heart of the Luberon Mountains, the ocher country.
Rublev Colours Aqueous Pigment Dispersions are pigments dispersed in water ready to be mixed with water-based mediums. These dispersions are especially made for use with traditional painting mediums, such as egg, casein, fresco, watercolors and distemper (glue tempera). They are also ideally suited for use with gesso for making toned grounds for drawing and painting.
Pigment dispersions from Rublev Colours contain only naturally-derived ingredients, in addition to pigment and water, making them ideally suited for traditional and natural mediums. Unlike other pigment dispersions that are typically made for acrylic medium, Rublev Colours Aqueous Dispersions do not contain coalescent solvents, artificial dispersing resins and other additives that interfere with natural mediums.
Rublev Colours Aqueous Dispersions make preparing traditional mediums easy; you do not have to hassle with powders, grinding pigments with expensive tools and calculating pigment-binder ratios to make water-based paint. They make adding the right amount of paint binder simple and easy. For example, preparing egg tempera has never been easier, because the dispersion makes measuring the right amount of pigment easy—you simply add egg and stir—there's no guessing how much egg to add to the pigment.
Pigment Names | |||
Common Names: | English: sienna French: terre de sienne German: Sienaerde Italian: terra di siena Russian: сиена Spanish: tierra de siena | ||
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Origin and History
The pigment now identified as sienna is a yellow iron oxide earth pigment generally warmer and more transparent than other yellow earths. In the scientific study of historical pigments, it is not generally possible to distinguish yellow earths and sienna earths. Even in the case of modern pigments, there is often not a clear dividing line between yellow earth and raw sienna.
The pigment sienna owes its name to the Italian city, Siena, located in the Tuscany region. An area of rolling hills, it is famous for the mining and production of the pigment since the Renaissance. The localities where sienna earth is found are not confined to the original ones near the town of Siena, but all through Tuscany, Sicily, Sardinia, the Luberon Mountains of France and in the Hartz Mountains of Germany, earth of similar quality is found. In the United States, in Pennsylvania deposits of sienna earths are found, and in the mountain ranges of Virginia good, rich deposits have been developed. In the European part of Russia, the most widely known sources of sienna earths are in the Kudinovskoye deposit in the Moscow region and the Ukholovskoye deposit of Ryazansk province.
Sienna earths have been used as a pigment since prehistoric times, although the name terra di Siena for yellow earth did not appear in painting treatises until the second half of the 18th century.
Source
Iron oxide earth pigments, as they often are called, are an important group of inorganic pigments derived from minerals. Iron oxide pigments are yellow, red, and brown, but artists know them as ocher, sienna, red oxide and umber. Unlike manufactured pigments, the color of iron oxide earth pigments varies with the composition of the particular segment of earth from which they come. The color of sienna earth pigments is derived from three constituents: the principal coloring ingredient, secondary coloring ingredients and a base. The combination of these ingredients produces the particular color of the earth. The innumerable forms and variations in which these ingredients can combine result in the wide range of yellows, reds and browns. Principal coloring ingredient: Iron oxide hydroxide is the principal color producing ingredient in sienna earths. The properties of the particular iron oxide hydroxide present in the earth determines its color. The nature of the iron oxide found in the deposit, rather than its percentage, is critical to the resulting earth color. Most rock contains some iron oxide. Those bearing the least amounts are limestone, white clay and colorless kaolin. Those containing the highest amounts are the rocks from which metallic iron is extracted. Secondary coloring ingredients: Calcium, manganese oxide, carbonic materials, silica and limestone are some common modifiers that affect the specific color of natural sienna earth pigments. Manganese oxide, for example, enriches the brown in umbers. Base: Nearly all iron oxides have a alumina-silicate (clay) base. Clay is the weathered product of silicate rocks and is extremely varied in composition. As a result, it has numerous effects on the earth's color.
Natural sienna earth is a yellow pigment with a more or less brownish red tinge in the mass tone and a more or less yellowish undertone. It differs from the yellow ocher by having a much deeper color, more than twice the tinting power, containing only two-fifths as much silica, only one-third as much alumina and from two and one-half to three times as much iron oxide hydroxide, and in addition to this from one to one and one-half per cent of manganese oxide, to the presence of which is due the difference in color.
Natural sienna earth closely resembles yellow ocher by its composition. The content of iron oxide hydroxide in sienna varies from 40 to 70% while in ocher it may be less than 20%. A. H. Church reports the typical constituents of sienna based upon three analyses given by M. G. Hurst: Hygroscopic water 8.2 to 17.5%; combined water which includes traces of organic matter 9.0 to 12.4%; manganese dioxide 0.6 to 1.5%; iron oxide 45.8 to 59.7%; and silica 5.0 to 17.4% [The Chemistry of Paints and Painting, p. 230]. The differences in color between ocher and sienna earth pigments, is most likely due to the degree of hydration, or quantity of water bonded to its ferric oxide content. These pigments are basically composed of the minerals goethite and hematite associated with varying proportions of mineral impurities.
Our French sienna is from natural sienna earths extracted from deposits in the Luberon Mastif, Provence, southern France. It is especially noted for its warm yellow brown masstone, greenish yellow undertone and transparency.
Permanence and Compatibility
Sienna does not react with other pigments and is effectively used in fresco, oil, tempera and watercolors. It is considered to be permanent with medium tinting strength and excellent transparency. It does not react with solvents, and is indifferent to alkalis, but is partially soluble in acids.
Oil Absorption and Grinding
Sienna requires a large proportion of oil to make it into a satisfactory oil-based paint. The oil absorption ratio is 45–55 parts by weight of raw linseed oil to 100 parts by weight of pigment. If the measurement were grams, sienna would require 45–55 grams of raw linseed oil to grind 100 grams of pigment to form a stiff paste.
Toxicity
The pigment is considered non-toxic, but care should always be exercised when handling the pigment so as not to ingest it.
Pigment Information | |
Color: | Brown |
Colour Index: | Pigment Red 102 (77491) |
Chemical Name: | Iron Oxide Hydroxide |
Chemical Name: | α-FeOOH |
ASTM Lightfastness Rating | |
Acrylic: | I |
Watercolor: | I |
Properties | |
Density: | 3.3–4.3 |
Hardness: | 5.0–5.5 |
Refractive Index: | nα=2.260 nβ=2.393 nγ=2.398 |
SKU | 260-33 |
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Brand | Rublev Colours |
Vendor | Rublev Colours |
Processing Time | Usually ships the next business day. |
Color | Brown, Sienna |
Pigment Type | Inorganic, Earth, Natural |
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