Description
From the range of 'Native Earths' this is how paint should be, local rocks and minerals selected for their colour qualities, crushed, washed, sieved and ground into oil paint. Utterly unique to Wallace Seymour.
Like many of these Native Earths, its qualities are quite hard to pin down, which to my mind is a sign of quality. Homogenous, buttery, highly processed paint this isn't, and all the better for that.
In masstone it is a very dark brown with a very slight green leaning. In tints with white added, it produces a range of almost neutral greys, albeit with greenish undertones. Stands up well in mixes for an earth, it has the gritty texture present in these paints which I am falling in love with.
The paint is pretty lean in body.
Hardraw also has the highest single drop waterfall in England! (shown in the image above).
Technical Overview
Pigment - Native Earth/Too unique to classify!
Opacity - Semi-Transparent
Binder - Linseed Oil
Drying Time - Medium
Munsell - Hue 7.5 Y - Value 2 - Chroma 2
