300. English red

English Red is an opaque oil colour with a warm reddish-brown hue, distinguished by its natural depth and a soft, muted pinkish tint. It offers excellent lightfastness and a refined, understated character. The colour contains the synthetic iron oxide pigment P.R.101. The name English Red historically refers to the natural red ochres once mined in England, which became the benchmark for this distinctive hue. The modern pigment faithfully reproduces the character of the historic English Red while offering excellent purity, consistency, and lightfastness. It is particularly valued in landscape, portrait, and architectural painting. The colour is ideal for depicting brickwork, roof tiles, earth, wood, warm shadows, and natural flesh tones, while also producing harmonious colour mixtures.It provides reliable coverage of underlying paint layers while preserving the expressive plasticity of the painted surface.It allows artists to create warm natural colour harmonies with expressive depth and lasting stability.