Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor - Enviro-Friendly Red Iron Oxide, 15 ml

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors offer the widest range of lightfast, highly pigmented, and unique colors in the world. With more than 260 colors, you can find your creative inspiration in traditional watercolor hues, gorgeous earth colors, granulating paints made from minerals and gemstones, and bright, bold modern hues. Between the Extra Fine, PrimaTek, and Luminescent lines, you can paint anything you can imagine!

Each paint has excellent brushing properties and creates clean mixtures, whether mixing on the palette or layering washes. Formulated to meet and exceed the highest quality standards, each batch is analyzed for its performance qualities of lightfastness, color value, tinting strength, clarity, vibrancy, undertone, particle size, density, and viscosity. Made by hand in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Enviro-Friendly Red Iron Oxide - At full strength, Enviro-Friendly Red Iron Oxide this versatile red-brown is deep brick. In lighter washes a warm and transparent earthy rose is revealed. A perfect brown-pink for portraiture - it's the natural looking red on cheeks and lips. Enviro-Friendly pigments are reclaimed and refined, giving you an earth-friendly option without sacrificing color quality. Daniel Smith Enviro-Friendly Watercolors, the colors aren't green, but the process is! To make these paints, we use pigments from the earth's crust, obtained through a process known as Iron Oxide Recovery. This method removes colored iron oxides that pollute mine water, cleaning the water so it can re-enter a receiving stream-and resulting in a cleaner natural environment. The recovered iron oxide is thoroughly washed, then used to create a trio of rich colors ranging in tone from a warm golden yellow to a deep red earth to a beautiful saturated dark brown with a bluish undertone.

This is a granulating color, meaning a grainy visual texture is created when the pigment particles settle and clump together rather than settling evenly on the painted surface. Granulation is more pronounced on textured papers.