earth · Oil and Watercolor

Yellow Ochre

A muted earth yellow. Indispensable for skin, sand and autumn greens.

IndexPY43

Color#C68E27

Tinting strength4/10

Opacitysemi-opaque

Lightfastnessexcellent

Dryingaverage

In watergranulates

Middling strength: it mixes politely and does not take over.

With white, step by step

pure #C68E27 6:1 #D5A33E 3:1 #DCAF4D 2:1 #E0B858 1:1 #E8C66F 1:2 #EDD488 1:3 #F0DA97 1:6 #F3E4AE pure #F8F7F3

From pure Yellow Ochre on the left to titanium white on the right. Watch how much chroma you lose on the way — that is the cost of lightening with white, and the reason a tint often needs a trace of something warm putting back.

What to mix it with

These are the partners that take Yellow Ochre furthest towards neutral, which makes them the ones you reach for when you need a shadow or a gray rather than a color.

with Mars Black quietest point #1F1D1C with Zinc White quietest point #FBFAF7 with Titanium White quietest point #F8F7F3 with Ivory Black quietest point #24211F with Payne’s Gray quietest point #364341 with Ultramarine quietest point #305457

Every pair

Titanium White Zinc White Lemon Yellow Cadmium Yellow Light Cadmium Yellow Deep Raw Sienna Naples Yellow Cadmium Red Light Cadmium Red Deep Alizarin Crimson (permanent) Quinacridone Rose Indian Red Burnt Sienna Raw Umber Burnt Umber Ultramarine Cobalt Blue Cerulean Blue Phthalo Blue Prussian Blue Phthalo Green Viridian Chromium Oxide Green Dioxazine Purple Ivory Black Mars Black Payne’s Gray

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