Colour: Jaune Indien (Indian Yellow)
Details: Dry Ground Pigment
Technical characteristics :
Chemical name : mixture if iron oxide
Color Index : Y42 - Y43 - R101
Apparent density : 774 g/l
UV resistance : good
Coloring power : very good
 
Use : lime, wax, paint, plaster, fresco, glaze, cement, fine arts.
This pigment is in powder. For use in artistic paint, it should be finely ground in a mortar before mixing it with the binder.
Linseed oil : dilute the powder in some turpentine oil before adding it to linseed oil.
Paint with water/lime paste : dilute the pigment in some water to make it liquid before incorporating it into the paint.
Lime powder/cement/plaster : directly incorporate the pigment (up to 10% based on the weight of the binder), then mix in order to stain all of your binder.
Color : dark yellow pulling toward the color of ochre with a transparent binder. With a white binder, we obtain a yellow eggshell, slightly orange.
This pigment is 100% natural.
Made in France.
History : pigment preparation made by Société des Ocres de France. The Indian yellow has a special history : either it is derived from a paste resulting from the evaporation of the urine of cows fed with mango leaves and water ; or it was extracted from mango shoots prepared in decoction... In the 19th century, this pigment has been replaced by mixed pigments.