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I’ve been trying out colour mixes for all my green tubes of acrylic paint, and in this blog post I’m taking a look at two yellow-greens: green gold and brilliant yellow green. I like them both quite a bit, but they are dramatically different colours.
Green gold
First, let’s talk about green gold. This colour is by Golden paints, and is a beautiful yellow-green. It’s not overly bright; it’s a bit like a muddy lime. I think it’s great for landscapes.
It’s a mixture of pigments, including PY150 (nickel azo yellow), PG36 (phthalo green yellow shade), and PY175 (benzimidazolone yellow H6G).
Brilliant yellow green
If you’re looking for a bright yellow green, brilliant yellow green might be the ticket. It’s by Liquitex and is an incredibly vivid color – like a pale lime. Great for dramatic paintings where you want an uncompromising modern colour palette. I’ve also used it often in paintings of northern lights or where the sun it hitting green grass.
Brilliant yellow green is a mixture of pigments, including PG7 (phthalo green blue shade), PW6 (titanium white), PY3 (hansa yellow light), PY97 (diarylide yellow). Since it has titanium white already added, it’s a fairly like value.
Colour mixes
Using either colour straight from the tube is possible, but you’ll want to expand your colour palette with mixes.
I tested out how both hues mix with other colours, including:
- Cadmium lemon
- Cadmium-free yellow medium
- Phthalo blue (green shade)
- Ultramarine blue
- Quinacridone magenta
- Cadmium red
- Cadmium orange
- Dioxazine purple
- Titanium white
Watch me test out colour mixes on my YouTube channel.
Results
These are both very different colours, and not surprisingly, the results are quite different. I don’t think I would choose either as my only tube of green paint; I’d rather choose a different convenience green that gives me really dark mixes. I think I will keep using and purchasing green gold, and use it on occasion. I feel like brilliant yellow green is easier to mix using phthalo green and a lemon yellow, plus then it wouldn’t be such a bright value straight out of the tube. I do love it though, and it might be tough to not buy a similar shade when I’m in the art store.
Learn more
Check out a listing of all my colour mixing blog posts and videos on my colour mixing roundup article.
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