Vasari French Golden Ochre Extra Pale

This is a bright ivory with a yellowish hue. This color falls close to 10 YR in Munsell terms. Among the convenience mixes here this is a light one, perhaps around value 9, and might be a candidate for a warm mixing white.

“With subtle warmth and radiance, French Golden Ochre Extra Pale provides a gentle warm white. Useful for modifying bright colors or mixtures, this semi-opaque and very pale golden tint is ideal for creating atmospheric effects or distant highlights.” -Vasari

This color is part of the set called The Renaissance Touch of Color. Here is what Vasari says about the set, as their brand statements here may shed more light on this individual color as an opaque pigment blend. “Uniquely formulated from the delicate transparent and semi-transparent natural earth pigments actually used by the Renaissance Masters of painting, this set of eight opaque tints offers subtle notes of light. Useful as whites for delicate changes of value or as neutrals to modify brighter colors for suggestions of space and time.

The eight extra pale colors in the set offer a range of warm or cool, exquisite color, and soft neutral tones.” -Vasari

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