Wednesday 26 August 2015

4 - Mixing with Raw Umber

This is the 4th on my series of colour mixes using my Ultimate Mixing Palette

Raw Umber is a neutralised yellow. You could create this hue by mixing a purple and a yellow but that's quite a fiddle. The Daniel Smith and Da Vinci versions are wonderful and dark so they add a dark cool brown to the palette. I find Raw Umber really wonderful for shadow colours, skin tones and in landscapes. 


4 comments:

  1. Agreed - the DS BU is so much stronger and darker than the WN. I used the WN for years and struggled with it all the time. Now I've moved to DS BU I no longer have the problem

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  2. The Daniel Smith version of Raw Umber is my favorite - it's a more even neutral brown than Winsor Newton or M. Graham's versions. I find it just works in a lot of situations.

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    1. I agree. It's a colour I really like to have. As it is not an easy colour to create quickly by mixing, it's a great pigment to add to the palette.
      Burnt Umber less so - you can mix that warm brown hue with Burnt Sienna and a little ultramarine.

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  3. Raw umber (Daniel Smith) is PBr7 as burnt sienna and burnt umber. If we mix raw umber (DS) with a little bit of ultramarine blue (DS), can we still get a neutral gray, also? And what about the enviro-friendly brown iron oxide - PBr6 (DS) with ultramarine (DS)? I would like to have a darker brown in my palette that could mix also a neutral gray with ultramarine. Thank you in advance, Jane!!

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