Wallace Seymour Vintage Watercolour Carmine - Natural Wallace Seymour Oils (S5) The Cochineal insect is the

The Cochineal insect is the base of a powerful red dye

Contains quartz – which gives the pigment a granular feel and which lends it delicate transparency when used in glaze techniques

work in multiple layers

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Wallace Seymour Vintage Watercolour Carmine - Natural Wallace Seymour Oils (S5) The Cochineal insect is theCarmine Natural (NR 4) The commercial production of standard Carmine pigment continues in the Canaries and Peru. The Cochineal insect is the base of a powerful red dye, which is further developed into a lake pigment. As used by the top cosmetic houses for lipstick but also still used as a natural base food colorant. As a watercolour it is intense and very transparent. Reduced permanence when exposed to direct sunlight