Ceracolors Water-Soluble Wax Paint 50ml - S1 Raw Umber is a professional beeswax-based paint that combines the luminous optical quality of wax with the easy handling of water-based colour. Raw Umber is a cool, slightly greenish brown that produces beautiful silvery grey tints when mixed with white, making it ideal for underpainting, tonal studies, natural shadows, earthy landscapes, and muted skin tones.

Made from pharmaceutical-grade beeswax blended with naturally derived waxes, Ceracolors can be used for encaustic and wax painting techniques without special heated tools or equipment. Use it straight from the tube for smooth coverage and textured, sculptable impasto marks, or thin with water for soft, watercolour-like washes and glazes. Ceracolors dries in two stages: it becomes touch-dry quickly as water evaporates, then continues curing as wax crystals form, allowing early layers to be reactivated with a damp brush for blending and transitions.

Once cured, you can heat set and fuse the paint with a hair dryer, heat gun, or pastry torch to increase durability and wet scrub resistance and to further manipulate the wax surface. Suitable for rigid panels (recommended), as well as canvas and paper, and can also be applied to surfaces like ceramics, glass, metal, or plastic. Clean up is simple with soap and water, and dried paint can be removed with household ammonia.

Pigment: PBr 7 (natural iron oxide). Series 1. Opacity: semi-opaque. Permanence: A (permanent). Conforms to ASTM D-4236.