Description
If you are just starting out in painting and maybe you are confused by the terms warm and cool colours, this is a fine example of a warm one, you could get sunburnt sitting in front of this, a powerful, organic, fruity red-orange that has excellent lightfastness.
It has a similar mass tone (but more transparent) to a Cadmium orange, however it remains brighter with more chroma in its tint when mixed with white.
A painter cannot mix a secondary colour with the same purity and power of this orange, which means it has value on most painter's palettes.
If you use it very thinly and exploit the fact that it is not totally opaque, a rich, glowing glaze can be created, bouncing the light back and forth through the top layers.
Technical Overview
Pigment - PO 73
Vehicle - Linseed Oil
Opacity - Semi-Opaque
Tint Power - High
Munsell - Hue 10 R - Value 6 - Chroma 14
Michael Harding Oil Paint
