Ryan Brown Palette

The Ryan Brown Palette consists of the colors and mediums he typically uses in his figurative paintings. The colors he uses in his landscape and portrait pantings are as follows:

Portrait

Lazurite (Lapis Lazuli)
Ultramarine Bue
Lemon Ocher
Blue Ridge Yellow Ocher
Orange Molybdate
Alizarin Crimson
Genuine Vermillion
French Raw Umber
Lead White #1
Bone Black

Landscape

Ultramarine Blue
Cobalt Chromite Blue
Cinnabar Green
Chrome Yellow Primrose
Blue Ridge Yellow Ocher
Orange Molybdate
Alizarin Crimson
Genuine Vermilion
French Raw Umber
Lead White #1
Bone Black

Colors included in the Ryan Brown Palette
Color Swatch	Item Code	Series	Color Name
	820-103	9	Rublev Colours Lazurite (Lapis Lazuli) (natural ultramarine) is an intense deep blue color from precious lapis lazuli stones used in historical painting. It is a transparent, medium grained color with good tinting strength.
	820-104	2	Rublev Colours Ultramarine Blue (Red Shade) is an intense deep reddish-shade blue color from inorganic pigment of sodium aluminum silicate composition. It is a transparent, fine grained color with high tinting strength.
	820-122	7	Rublev Colours Cobalt Chromite Blue is an intense dark blue with greenish-undertones when mixed with white from inorganic pigment of cobalt chromite, called incorrectly “Cerulean blue” in other oil paint ranges. It is a semi-transparent, fine grained color with high tinting strength.
	820-226	5	Rublev Colours Cinnabar Green is a name that designated a green copper tartrate or copper arsenic pigment of the eighteenth century. By the first half of the nineteenth century, the term denoted a composite pigment of chrome yellow and Prussian blue, providing a wide range of hues from dark to light tones. We found nineteenth century formulas for cinnabar green composed of chrome yellow primrose and Prussian blue forming the basis of Rublev Colours Cinnabar Green.
	820-306	1	Rublev Colours Lemon Ocher is a transparent yellow with low tinting strength, medium grained that makes lemon half tints. Our lemon (ICLES) ocher is from quarries in northern Italy
	820-303	1	Rublev Colours Blue Ridge Yellow Ocher is a semi-transparent golden yellow, very fine grained and has a buttery consistency. Our yellow ocher is a single pigment color made of natural earths from ocher deposits in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia.
	820-310	4	Rublev Colours Chrome Yellow Primrose is lead chromate/lead sulfate, obtained synthetically as a yellow crystalline powder by precipitation from a solution of a lead salt. Chrome yellow primrose has good hiding power with bright yellow hue and average tinting strength.
	820-403	4	Rublev Colours Orange Molybdate is a brilliant orange made of lead chromate and lead molybdate and used in plastics, protective coatings and printing inks, but rarely as an artists' paint.
	820-512	4	Rublev Colours Alizarin Crimson is a translucent bluish red with high tinting strength, fine grained and a 'short' buttery paint.
	820-508	10	Rublev Colours Vermilion is an intense red found in historical painting since antiquity. It is opaque, has good tinting strength and smooth grained.
	820-610	1	Rublev Colours French Raw Umber is a semi-transparent, deep greenish brown with good tint strength, fine grained and, like most Rublev Colours Artist Oils, brushes "long" in the direction of the brush stroke.
	820-802	5	Rublev Colours Lead White in linseed oil is an opaque white that is soft and slightly ropey that dries quickly.
	820-903	1	Rublev Colours Bone Black is an semi-opaque black with good tinting strength, fine grained and brushes long in the direction of the brush stroke.

Note: Colors swatches are shown in mass tone, straight from the tube, on the left, and mixed with an equal amount of white on the right. All pictures of color swatches in this web site are only approximations of the actual color of the oil paint. We taken every care to match the color in these pictures on calibrated color monitors to the actual color. However, because of the wide variance in color monitors the results you get may vary.