Rublev Colours Italian Yellow Earth is a classic natural yellow earth pigment made from hydrated iron oxide minerals, primarily goethite, sourced from quarries in northern Italy. This traditional PY43 earth offers a warm, natural yellow that artists have relied on since antiquity for underpainting, landscape foundations, and realistic colour mixing.

Italian Yellow Earth is prized for its permanence, broad compatibility, and dependable performance across painting mediums. It works beautifully in oil, tempera, watercolour, acrylic, fresco, and grounds, and mixes cleanly with other pigments to create natural greens, warm neutrals, skin undertones, and sunlit highlights. As a natural earth pigment, it has a grounded chroma that supports subtle, realistic palettes without looking artificial.

Key features

• Natural Italian yellow earth from the Verona region (goethite based)

• Colour Index PY43, permanent and lightfast (ASTM I)

• Reliable mixing colour for portraits, landscapes, and earth palettes

• Suitable for making oil paint, watercolour, tempera, acrylic dispersions and fresco

• Stable and compatible with other pigments and binders

Safety note: Avoid inhaling dry pigment dust. Use a mask and good ventilation when handling powder.