Rublev Colours Artist Oil Colours 50ml Transparent Mummy
Rublev Colours Artist Oil Colours 50ml Transparent Mummy
Rublev Colours Transparent Mummy is a semi-transparent red with orange undertones, medium-grained, low tinting strength, and brushes "long" along the brush stroke. The red earth comprising Rublev Colours Transparent Mummy Artist Oil is Armenian Mummy Red Light pigment from quarries in the Lori province of northern Armenia. Transparent Mummy derives its name from the Russian word for mummy, which denotes a pigment of brownish-red color similar to the nineteenth-century pigment derived from ground mummies.
Mummy brown was initially made in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from the pitch, myrrh, and the ground-up remains of Egyptian mummies. It had good transparency in oil paint and was used for glazes, shadows, flesh tones, and shading. It fell from popularity during the nineteenth century when its composition became more generally known to artists.
The modern pigment sold as "mummy" or "mummy brown" is composed of a mixture of hematite, goethite, clay, and quartz; the hematite and goethite (generally from 20 to 60% of the content) determining its color--the more hematite, the redder the pigment--with the others being inert substances that can vary the opacity or tinting strength.
Red iron oxide or ferric oxide is the principal coloring agent in red earth, such as the Armenian Mummy Red Light. This pigment has an unusually low content of the natural mineral hematite (less than 12%) associated with larger amounts of clay and silica. The low iron oxide content makes it wonderfully transparent. It also differs from yellow iron oxides in that it does not contain water bound with iron oxide. In other words, the iron to which it owes its color is iron oxide, not iron oxide hydroxide.
Rublev Colours Artists' Oils let you experience what the old masters well understood--the unique characteristics of pigments. The pigments used by old masters in their paintings were ground from natural minerals and earths, fermented in dyer vats and concocted in alchemist laboratories. Rublev Colours Artists' Oils give you the same pigments used by the old masters prepared with linseed oil as ready-made paints.
Rublev Colours uses natural pigments or historical reproductions of pigments used by the old masters. Rublev Colours Artists' Oils are formulated to maintain the unique characteristics of each pigment in oil. The character found in each tube of these oil colors is unique due to the pigment inside, giving the artist nearly limitless choices of texture, opacity, consistency, tone and hue.
Rublev Colours Artists' Oils do not contain additives, such as fillers, driers and stabilizers--simply pigment and oil. Refined linseed oil is used in the paint sometimes with a small amount of heat-bodied linseed oil. Stabilizers, such as stearates and waxes, are not added that diminish the individual effects of pigments in oil. Therefore, you will find different consistencies from color to color due to the individual pigment characteristics, and an occasional bit of free oil. Some colors brush out long, others short and buttery and still others are thixotropic.
Pigment Color Code: PR102
Opacity/Transparency: Semi-Transparent
Tinting Strength: Low
Lightfastness: Excellent
Permanence: Permanent
Drying Rate: Approx. 2 - 5 Days
Binder: Linseed Oil
- SKU Number
- RUB5132
- MSRP
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$20.40 / EA - Your Price
- $18.36 / EA
- Weight
- 0.40 LB
- Quantity Available
- 0
