A warm honey-bronze colour with lustrous sparkle provided by very fine films of iron oxide.

The fibrous, fairly fragile Bronzite stone from Brazil is occasionally used in jewellery but excels as a watercolour pigment.

It's a warm golden-brown in masstone - somewhere between ochre and sienna, but distinctly different - Bronzite Genuine lets down into pale washes of soft, always warm, sandy beige. In a wash on cold press or rough paper, the brown settles out of this intriguing special-effect color.

• Light fastness: Excellent
• Non-Staining
• Granulation: Yes
• Transparent