This is a water color painting made from the dry pigments above.
Painting an apple with my color sample card. PR122, PB15.3 and PY153 in water colors, laying down yellow first, then magenta and cyan.
Hooray! My 30 grams of Sennelier's Quinacridone Red, #679, for $55 w/ship arrived. IT IS THE PERFECT TRANSPARENT MAGENTA, BAR NONE. It's Pigment Index Color Number is PR122. This is the dry pigment magenta you need for frescos and all other media. Only Sennelier has it as dry pigment.
The perfect pure pigment triad is:
Transparent Indian Yellow (warm yellow-brown) PY153 Nickel complex from Zecchi.
Or Transparent Indian Yellow (warm yellow-orange greenish) PG10F Nickel Chalated Azo from Senopia.
Transparent Quinacridone Magenta, PR122 from Sennelier.
Transparent Phthalocyanine Blue (cyan) PB15.3 from Senopia.
Keep this list as close to your heart as I do, it took testing over $2000 worth of pigments to find these gems. At the same time I got a great fresco complete palette.
Here are the transparent yellow chemical pigments. Indian Yellow can be made with these Chemical Class colors;
-Dioxine Yellow Nickel Complex which makes Nickel Dioxine Yellow Br/s PY153 and Org/s PG10F.
-Disazo, which makes Dairylide Yellow HR70.
-Anthraquinone, which makes Anthrapyrimidine Yellow PY108 and Flavanthrone PY112.
-Tetrachloroindolinone, which makes Isoindolinone Yellow R, a brown/side Indian Yellow.
Using Transparent Yellow.
Indian Yellow is a set of two colors, transparent yellow-orange to yellow PY139, or better PG10F. And transparent yellow-brown to yellow PY153. They both seem to be very, very close. One is a strong yellow to mix with magenta making orange to crimson rose, including bright red, the other is for lower chroma greens and browns. These transparent duel-toned colors mix a lot of greens and reds.
* D.S. New Gamboge, Duel toned, Nickel Dioxine Yellow, PY153, CI48545. This is really Indian yellow, don't know why they named gamboge.
* Daniel Smith, Indian Yellow (hue), Duel toned, Anthrapyrimidine Yellow, Vat Yellow 20, PY108. 68420. duel-toned from yellow to a B/s Raw Sienna hue.
* Lefranc and Bourgeois, Indian Yellow (Imitation), PY153 - PY152 Nickel Dioxine Yellow Complex, is a translucent duel-toned yellow-orange mass-tone to cadmium yellow hue under-tone and top-tone. Makes great reds and warm yellows.
* Grumbacher Indian Yellow Hue, PY1 Arylide Yellow G / PO1 Hansa Orange, translucent, less dual-toned then Nickel Dioxine Yellow.
* Talens, Indian Yellow, PY110 Isoindolinone, from yellow-orange-ocher to yellow. Makes clean reds and warm yellows.
* Talens, Gamboge, PY97 Arylide Yellow Fgl, Duel-toned orange-ocher to yellow.
* Schmincke, Chrome Yellow Deep (not lead chrome), PY83 Diarylide Hr70, from yellow pale to yellow deep duel-tone. Makes clean reds and warm yellows.
* Sennelier, Yellow Lake, PY83 Diarylide Hr70 plus PY43 Yellow Ocher Iron Oxide. These are the same pigments as in Old Holland's Indian Yellow B/s, oil. Duel-toned translucent.
* Schmincke, Permanent Yellow Deep, (Indian Yellow Br/s hue), Pr154 Benzimidazolone Yellow H3g plus PY10 Isoindolinone Yellow R. Makes clean reds and yellow-orange yellows.
* Sennelier, Yellow Lake, PY83 Diarylide Hr70 / PY43 Yellow Ocher, is not transparent so it is not really a Lake (transparent) color. It's translucent because of the addition of Yellow Ocher Oxide.
* Holbein, Greenish-Yellow, duel-toned, a G/s Indian Yellow.
-Nickel complex yellow, PG10F is a primary transparent compound. It makes Indian Yellow Green side, Indian Yellow PY153 is Indian Yellow Orange side is also a nickel complex. PY108 is Indian yellow Br/s. Duel toned, Anthrapyrimidine Yellow, Vat Yellow 20, IN68420. duel-toned from yellow to a B/s Raw Sienna hue.
THESE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT TRANSPARENT YELLOW PIGMENTS since Indian Yellow Original was discontinued in 1900. Not that cadmium opaque yellow or Benzimidazolone translucent yellow should be neglected. Buy your supply while this nickel complex is still availble, 1-6-5
Nickle complex yellow pigments are more transparent and dual-toned.
Painting with a Transparent Triad Palette, all these colors were made with this triad except one ultramarine blue ball which was used to compare the mixed blue with the tube ult blue PB29.
First is transparent Indian yellow Or/s then transparent Indian yellow Br/s
Transparent Triad Colors in 6 round color chips, except for the first ball, opaque ultramarine blue PB29.
Indian yellow O/s ball PY153. Cyan PB15.3 and Indian yellow PY153 make the green color chip sample.
Magenta and cyan made the purple ball, cyan and magenta made the blue ball, Indian yellow and magenta made the red ball.
Oppositions, opaque red PR88 or cad or Thio red PR108, transparent cyan PB15.3. Using each other's color to make a neutral dark shadow.
Oppositions Transparent Magenta PR122, Transparent Green PG35, using each other's color to make a neutral dark shadow.
The black ball was made with this transparent triad. I challange any other combination of transparent pigments to this make a ball as black or as neutral.
Testing for black with PR122, PB15.3 and PY153 on a 14x18 panel, making a very dark painting BUON FRESCO without black pigment.