Isoindolinone Yellow (PY110)
To begin with, it’s easy to confuse Isoindolinone Yellow (PY110), which this text is about, with Isoindoline Yellow (PY139). However, these are two different pigments that share some properties but are not the same,…
Category: Yellow colors
Yellow favorites
The first thing I need to point out about yellow paints is that I find them troublesome. Most yellow shades offered by various paint manufacturers tend to be flat, unremarkable, and dull. Many of…
Mayan Yellow (PY223)
Mayan yellow is one of several colors that have their roots in Mayan culture. Just like Mayan blue, the yellow color is produced, in a complicated process, from the indigo plant together with palygorskite….
Green Gold – PY129
The name green gold probably comes from the metal made of an alloy of gold and Palladium (or silver). As a watercolor paint, it was the pigment PG10 that was first named green gold….
Isoindoline Yellow – PY139
Isoindoline pigments are a group of modern dyes with shades from red to green-yellow, of which only the warm yellow PY139 is fairly common in watercolor. isoindoline yellow has an orange-yellow hue, is a…
Nickel Azo yellow (Transparent Yellow) PY150
Maybe I should admit right away: Nickel Azo yellow is my favorite among yellow colors nowadays. Previously, it had competition from Nickel Dioxin yellow (PY153) and Quinacridone Gold (PO49), but none of these colors…
Gamboge, a closed chapter
Once upon a time there was a color, extracted from the tree Clusiaceae, which was called gamboge. Unfortunately, the paint had poor lightfastness, it faded quickly in sunlight. Therefore, it was replaced as soon…
