Rublev Colours Orange Ochre is a beautifully grounded, semi-opaque earth watercolour with good tinting strength and a clean, natural warmth that sits perfectly between orange and yellow. Sourced from historic French ochre quarries in the Luberon Mountains, this pigment carries the classic character artists love in traditional earth colours—reliable, versatile, and incredibly usable across both painting and sketching.

Made with a gum arabic binder and no added stabilisers, Orange Ochre delivers authentic pigment behaviour with a smooth, controllable flow. In mass tone it reads as a rich ochre-orange; diluted with water it opens into warm, sunlit washes that layer easily without turning muddy. Its semi-opaque nature makes it ideal for landscape painting, architectural studies, portrait underpainting, urban sketching, and mixing natural skin tones, sandstones, terracotta, grasses, and warm neutrals.

As with many minimally processed, additive-free watercolours, natural separation of pigment and binder may occur—simply mix the paint on your palette to restore an even consistency.

Colour info: Orange / Yellow (cool orange hue)
Pigment: PY43 (Natural Hydrated Iron Oxide)
Lightfastness: ASTM I (Excellent)
Opacity: Semi-opaque
Staining: Average to medium-staining
Granulation: None
Particle size: Medium
Size: 15ml tube