Red Watercolors

Red Sartorius Earth is a semi-opaque, deep warm red earth with warm tints. Our red earth comes from quarries in Northern Italy.

Pozzuoli Red is an opaque deep red earth with warm undertones. Our Pozzuoli Red comes from quarries near Pozzuoli, Italy.

Ercolano Red is a semi-opaque red earth with warm tints and high tinting strength. Our Ercolano Red comes from mineral deposits near Ercolano, Italy.

Venetian Red is a semi-opaque deep red earth with cold tints. Our Venetian Red is a natural red ocher from quarries near Venice, Italy.

Indian Red is an opaque, deep red with high tinting strength. It is a single pigment color made with natural iron oxide mineral from hematite deposits in India.

French Red Ocher is a semi-transparent, deep red ochre from the last remaining European company operating the ochre deposits in the French quarries of the Luberon Mountains, the ochre country.

Cinnabar watercolor exhibits a rich scarlet‑red mass tone with a distinct reddish‑orange undertone. Opaque and highly tinting, it lays down a smooth, even field of color and is best used full strength or in strong tints for icon painting, manuscript illumination and other work where a bold historic red is desired.

Pink Pipestone, is a pink clay from Minnesota; the clay stone was carved by Native Americans into pipes and also used as a pigment.

Potter’s Pink is a lightfast, semitransparent, moderately staining, a dark valued, moderately subdued red pigment. Historically used since the 18th century as a watercolor pigment, under the name “pinkcolor.”

Alizarin Crimson is the synthetic analog of the colorant from the roots of the plant Rubia tinctorum and that in past centuries was used to make madder lakes, the principle coloring substance which is alizarin.

Crimson Ocher is a semi-transparent deep red with purplish-pink undertones, fine grained. The red ocher comprising Crimson Ocher is a red iron oxide earth from quarries in Lori province of northern Armenia.

Armenian Brown Mummy is a semi-opaque, brownish red, fine-grained with average tinting strength. Armenian Brown Mummy derives its name from the Russian word мумия that denotes the pigment of brownish red color from ground mummies. Armenian Brown Mummy is from red iron oxide earth deposits in the Vayotz Dzor province of Armenia.

Hematite is a natural red iron oxide from the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The high iron content (over 80%) makes it a strong tinting pigment.

Rublev Colours Cadmium Red Light pigment is cadmium zinc sulfoselenide (CdS, CdSe) produced by co-precipitating and calcining, at high temperature, a mixture of cadmium sulfide and selenide sulfide in varied ratios forming a partially crystalline structure.

Rublev Colours Cadmium Red Medium pigment is cadmium zinc sulfoselenide (CdS, CdSe) produced by co-precipitating and calcining, at high temperature, a mixture of cadmium sulfide and selenide sulfide in varied ratios forming a partially crystalline structure.

Rublev Colours Cadmium Red Maroon pigment is cadmium zinc sulfoselenide (CdS, CdSe) produced by co-precipitating and calcining, at high temperature, a mixture of cadmium sulfide and selenide sulfide in varied ratios forming a partially crystalline structure.