Mont Marte Dimension Acrylic Premium
Yellow Ochre 75ml
The original earth yellow: opaque, warm, and essential in every landscape and portrait palette.

Yellow Ochre is one of the oldest pigments used by humans and one of the most essential colours in any acrylic palette. In the Dimension Acrylic Premium range, it is based on PY43 (Natural Yellow Iron Oxide), delivering a warm, muted, fully opaque golden yellow that reads as the colour of sunlit sandstone, wheat fields, aged parchment, and the most important mixing earth in any landscape or portrait palette. Where Raw Sienna is transparent and slightly more orange, Yellow Ochre is opaque and cleanly golden, making it the go-to earth yellow for any passage that needs coverage and warmth. In the ultra-thick heavy body formula, it holds knife marks and impasto texture without slumping. Dries to a gloss finish with a Blue Wool Level 7+ lightfast rating. Available in 75ml tubes and 250ml pots.

Pigment
PY43 (Natural Yellow Iron Oxide)
Opacity
Opaque
Finish
Gloss (when dry)
Drying
20-30 min
1-2 hrs for thick impasto areas
★ Art Shed Staff Tip
Yellow Ochre mixed with Titanium White is the most useful flesh-light base in a limited portrait palette. Yellow Ochre mixed with Ultramarine Blue gives the most convincing natural shadow colour for warm subjects. These two mixes cover the light-to-shadow arc of most warm-lit portrait work.
Perfect For
Portrait flesh tones and warm skin colourLandscape warm earth and sandstone passagesWheat, grain, and golden harvest colourMixing warm neutral darks with blue pigmentsAged parchment, linen, and warm paper toneFoundation colour for warm-key still life work

What Makes This Colour Essential

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Consistency
Ultra-Thick Heavy Body
Yellow Ochre arrives in the full ultra-thick Dimension Acrylic Premium formula, holding palette knife ridges and impasto marks in sculptural form through drying.
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Opacity
Full Coverage in One Pass
PY43 Yellow Ochre is fully opaque. A single thick application covers any ground completely, making it efficient for backgrounds, colour fields, and warm earth passages.
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Versatility
Most Versatile Earth Colour
Yellow Ochre mixes convincingly in every direction: warm flesh tones with white and red, natural darks with blue, deep earth tones with umber, and bright golden passages with yellow pigments.
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Lightfastness
Blue Wool Level 7+ / ASTM I
Rated at Blue Wool Level 7 or above (equivalent to ASTM I), Dimension Acrylic Premium Yellow Ochre is formulated to remain unchanged for more than 100 years under museum-quality lighting conditions. Purpose-built for archival and professional work.

Mixing with Yellow Ochre

Yellow Ochre is the most versatile earth colour in any palette. Nearly every warm earth tone, flesh passage, and natural dark passes through Yellow Ochre in some ratio.

Combine this colour with...
Titanium White → warm flesh light and pale golden tint for the lightest skin highlights and warm stone
Ultramarine Blue → the most natural and convincing warm shadow dark in any portrait or landscape palette
Burnt Sienna → deep warm earth and terracotta for sunlit soil and warm architectural colour
Permanent Red → warm dark red-brown for earth shadow and warm rich ground passages
Raw Umber → cool earthy mid-brown for the most neutral earth passage in landscape work

About Mont Marte Dimension Acrylic Premium

Founded in Australia in 2002, Mont Marte creates high-quality fine art materials for students, hobbyists, and professional artists worldwide. Dimension Acrylic Premium is their flagship heavy body range: an ultra-thick, high-viscosity acrylic formulated for impasto work, palette knife painting, and any technique that demands a paint that holds its shape. With a Blue Wool Level 7+ lightfast rating (equivalent to ASTM I), the 48-colour range is built for serious, permanent work. Available in 75ml tubes and 250ml pots.

Why is Yellow Ochre considered essential in a portrait palette?

Yellow Ochre is the most naturalistic warm yellow for skin tones. It mixes convincingly as the base for warm flesh lights (with Titanium White), warm mid-tones (with Burnt Sienna), and the complementary dark for skin shadows (with Ultramarine Blue). Very few colours in any range are as broadly useful across portrait work.

Can I use Dimension Acrylic Yellow Ochre with a palette knife?

Yes. Palette knife application is one of the primary uses for Dimension Acrylic Premium. The ultra-thick formula sits firm on the knife, deposits a clean hard-edged layer on the surface, and holds the shape of each mark as it dries without slumping. Apply straight from the tube for maximum texture and sharp ridges.

Can Yellow Ochre replace Lemon Yellow or Medium Yellow in a limited palette?

No. Yellow Ochre's muted, earthy character makes it unsuitable for vivid yellow passages, mixing clean greens, or colour work that requires a bright yellow. It is the correct choice wherever warmth and naturalism matter more than saturation.

How long does Dimension Acrylic Yellow Ochre take to dry?

Thin applications dry in 20-30 minutes. Heavy impasto builds applied with a palette knife can take 1-2 hours to dry fully. Drying time extends in cold or humid conditions. Do not apply a second thick layer over the first until the lower layer has dried completely to the touch.

What surfaces can I use Dimension Acrylic Yellow Ochre on?

Canvas, board, wood, air-dry clay, plaster, cardboard, paper, leather, and most rigid plastics. For best adhesion on non-porous or slick surfaces, apply a coat of gesso or acrylic primer first. Dimension Acrylic Premium is compatible with all Mont Marte acrylic mediums, gels, and impasto pastes.

Art Shed Online is an authorised Australian stockist of Mont Marte products. All Mont Marte Dimension Acrylic products are sourced through official distribution channels. We ship Australia-wide.

Available at Art Shed Online, Australia's specialist art supply store. Questions? Contact us at customerservice@artshedonline.com.au.

(PMDA0033)

SKU PMDA0033
Barcode # 9328577016202
Brand Mont Marte
Shipping Weight 0.1080kg
Shipping Width 0.060m
Shipping Height 0.140m
Shipping Length 0.030m

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