{"product_id":"burnt-sienna-pigment-425137940","title":"Burnt Sienna Pigment","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescription\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurnt Sienna is a handmade single earth pigment made through a historical process of calcination of our French Raw Sienna. By heating natural raw sienna, its yellow-brown tone transforms into a deeper, reddish-brown, intensifying its warmth and saturation. This pigment is known for its rich, earthy character and exceptional versatility in fine art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurnt Sienna has exceptional lightfastness, making it highly durable for both classical and contemporary artwork. It blends seamlessly with other earth pigments, offering warm and harmonious tones in painting. Its semi-opaque quality allows for beautiful layering and depth in oil, watercolor, and tempera applications. Compared to synthetic reds and browns, it provides a more soft and natural color, ideal for landscape, portrait, and decorative painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSienna pigments have been used in painting since prehistoric times, with early cave paintings featuring iron-rich earth pigments. Sourced originally from Italy, sienna deposits have also been found in France, Cyprus, and other regions known for their high-quality earth pigments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring antiquity, Burnt Sienna was widely used in Egyptian, Greek, and Roman wall paintings, frescoes, and ceramics. Artists discovered that heating sienna altered its color, creating a richer, more intense pigment suited for shading and warm highlights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Renaissance, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, and Rembrandt extensively used Burnt Sienna in underpainting and glazing techniques. Its warm, reddish tone made it an essential pigment for depicting skin tones, rich drapery, and dynamic lighting effects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the 18th and 19th centuries, sienna sourced from France gained popularity as a stable and widely available pigment. Burnt Sienna became a staple in academic painting, used for sketching, glazing, and neutralizing blues in color mixing. In the pictured artwork ' A Sunday on La Grande Jatte' by Georges Seurat, burnt sienna is used subtly to create warmth and depth throughout the skin tones, clothing, and foliage of the background. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, Burnt Sienna remains one of the most widely used earth pigments in fine art, conservation, and restoration due to its historical authenticity and warm, natural tone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePigment Information\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePigment Type: Natural (Iron Oxide) from minerals (Goethite and Hematite, heat-treated) (France) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuitable Mediums: Watercolor, Oil, Tempera, Acrylic, Encaustic, Cold Wax, Casein, Milk, Swedish Flour, Lime \/ Fresco\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLightfastness: Best \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpacity: Semi-opaque \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther Names: Terre de Sienne, French Burnt Sienna, Warm Earth Red , Burnt earth, Calcined Sienna \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColor Index Code: PBr7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImage: 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte' by Georges Seurat from the Art Institute Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morrow Archival","offers":[{"title":"5 Grams","offer_id":47875245375710,"sku":"PE-004-0000-0005g","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100 Grams","offer_id":47875245408478,"sku":"PE-004-0000-00100g","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300 Grams","offer_id":47875245441246,"sku":"PE-004-0000-0300g","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/2821\/2702\/files\/5a510a22f019a7752eb52d52926840f1dd6ed4af.jpg?v=1769986714","url":"https:\/\/morrowarchival.com\/products\/burnt-sienna-pigment-425137940","provider":"Morrow Archival","version":"1.0","type":"link"}