Sinopia


 * [[image:http://www.sinopia.com/images/pigmentcat3.jpg align="left" caption="Sinopia pigments. "]]Sinopia** (named after the Turkish city [|Sinop]) is a reddish-brown [|ochre]-like earth color [|pigment] used in traditional [|oil painting]. It is used for the [|cartoon] or underpainting for a [|fresco]; indeed, the term is also synecdochically used to refer to underpainting done in sinopia. It is composed of [|iron oxides], from a kind of clay or quartz called [|sinople].