How well do you know your earth tones? If you think brown is boring – think again! Shades of brown run the gamut from cool to warm – some with soft hints of green or violet and others with bright touches of red, orange or yellow.

In this Thursday Live session on Zoom, John and some of our Brand Ambassadors explore five different groups of ochres, umbers and siennas. Learn where in the world these pigments are mined, as well as a few characteristics of each color.

• Raw Sienna
• Pompeii Red
• Rare Green Earth
• Italian Burnt Sienna
• Terra Ercolano

• Italian Deep Ochre
• Burnt Sienna Light
• Burnt Sienna
• English Red Earth
• Burnt Yellow Ochre

• Burgundy Red Ochre
• Raw Umber
• Fired Gold Ochre
• French Ochre
• Monte Amiata Natural Sienna

• Raw Sienna Light
• Burgundy Yellow Ochre
• Goethite (Brown Ochre)
• German Greenish Raw Umber
• Burnt Umber

• Verona Gold Ochre
• Italian Venetian Red
• Terre Verte
• Yellow Ochre
• Raw Umber Violet

John Cogley (DANIEL SMITH Owner & CEO) swatches the first group of colors.

Giovanni Balzarani (DANIEL SMITH Brand Ambassador) shares his experiment with painting an autumn leaf.

Gabriel Stockton (DANIEL SMITH Brand Ambassador) shares his swatching and experiments with an abstract landscape.

Watch the full one-hour demo with Q&A on our YouTube channel. Click here to get the Zoom links for our next Thursday Live session.