PY150 Nickel Azo Yellow

This Nickel Azo Yellow pigment is magic. When you look at the dry colour a pan looks brown, so you expect to see something like raw sienna colour when painting. However, when painted it’s totally different. Of course, it’s not turning purple, but still surprisingly provides a very transparent rich yellow colour. It’s super transparent, which makes it work perfectly for glazing in oil and washing techniques in watercolour.

It’s very transparent, so you can create a gradient from very pale yellow to golden. Like many other synthetic organic pigments, it leaves satins behind, penetrating into the top paper layer quite fast.

Makes a good lightfast Indian Yellow or Gamboge substitute. You can find this colour under different names, such as: Aureoline, Nickel Azo Yellow, Gamboge Hue, Indian Yellow, Nickel Azo Golden, Translucent Golden Yellow and others. In ENL Watercolours line it comes as Nickel Azo Golden.