Description
Pozzuoli red is a classic portrait painting earth colour, equivalent to an English Red, it produces glowing, pinky flesh tints, which can then be tempered with raw umber or an equivalent.
Its masstone is a deep, orange-red. Classed as semi-transparent, it appears to me more opaque than that. With warm orange undertones, it also has good tinting strength, making it easy to produce a wide range of fleshy tints.
It is sourced from Northern Italy.
It has that classic Rublev body to it, painting long, powerful brushstrokes straight from the tube.
It's really almost essential to try - if you want to render flesh in a painting.
Technical Overview
Pigment - PR101
Binder - Linseed Oil
Opacity - Semi-Transparent
Drying Time - Medium
Lightfastness - Permanent - Excellent
Munsell - Hue 10 R - Value 4 - Chroma 12
Rublev Oil Paint
Rublev Oil Paint
