Description
Thanks to Neil for this one!
This bluish red is one of the most useful modern paints to exist primarily due to its luscious transparency and incredible vibrancy. Luminous crimson in masstone, with warm pink tints when mixed with white.
Paints quite 'short' for a Rublev paint, more buttery in handling.
Essential for portraiture, please read the following for Natural Pigment's description of the use of this paint;
"Franz Hals was well aware of the correct way in which to use fugitive lakes in order to produce vivid flesh tints. The ruddy noses and rosy cheeks portrayed by him which after a lapse of centuries have shown that this colour, when intelligently used, is stable.
Vermeer more than once placed a glaze of lake pigment over vermilion. He first modeled the object to be represented in various tones of vermilion using white to lighten the tone and black to darken them. Once the area was dry he glazed over it with a lake."
Technical Overview
Pigment - PR83
Opacity - Transparent
Binder - Linseed Oil
Drying Time - Slow
Munsell - Hue 7.5 R - Value 2 - Chroma 8
