Here we are again on Monday morning, I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. Today I'm going to continue talking about the importance of the pigments used in paint that I started on Friday. Today lets go over the yellow pigments, good and bad.

  First we have the Cadmium yellows, light, medium, and deep, the "bread and butter" warm yellows most artists use. The Cadmium pigments, also going into the reds and green, are all permanent and worth your money. The two typical codes for these colors are (PY 35 ) and (PY 37 ). You might even come across (PY 35:1) and (PY 37:1), as well but none of these will ever let you down. On a budget and want to save money on your warm yellows? You can go with the Hansa pigments (PY 3) , (PY 73) and (PY 98). As a matter of fact, if you are just starting out in painting, I would buy these until you feel you have a grip on what you want to do with your art.             

   Next we have Yellow Ochre (PY 43) another artist standby that will never let you down. Being one of the many natural "earth" pigments, this color has been with us since the old masters. They really only had natural pigments back then and another one of these yellow earth pigments would be (PY 42) known as "Mars Yellow" mostly.

  Now for the pigments you want to avoid in the yellow family. (PY 1) being the worst along with the diarylide yellow pigments (PY12, 13, 14, and 17). Please don't buy (PY 34) thinking it's close to the Cadmiums, it's not and is most commonly sold as "Chrome Yellow". Again this information is found on the back of the tube and the capital "Y" stands for yellow and the "P" for pigment. Remember, it's the pigment not what they call it on the front that matters.

  I hope this information is useful for you and helps you down the line in selecting colors for your work. Let me know what you think, leave me a post on this and on Wednesday I'll go over the bright red pigments so take care and I'll see you then!