Madrid - No. 265

Madrid is the color of heat sitting in old walls.

It’s an earthy green brown with warm peach kernel undertones, and it looks like sunbaked stone, dusty streets, dry hills, olive branches, and that slightly golden dirt that somehow ends up on everything when it’s been 32 degrees for a week.

The granulation is the whole mood. It settles like dust. It separates like weather. It gives you that textured surface where the wash looks dry and alive at the same time, like the paper just turned into a wall with history. Even one simple wash looks like it has been somewhere.

In a light wash it reads as warm khaki with a soft peach glow underneath, perfect for background layers, rooftops, skin shadows, and anything that needs warmth without being orange. Push it and it goes deeper and darker, more olive and more grounded, like shaded stone, old wood, and dry foliage.

This is not a “pretty” color. It’s a useful color. The kind you reach for when you want the painting to feel real, slightly dusty, and sun-warmed.

Basically: Madrid is street dust with good taste.

Lightfastness: 6/6 (Excellent)