so hello and welcome to cheap show's art stuff my name is julie and i'm here to impart some
knowledge to you today via a two-minute art tip and today's tip is basically about one of
my favorite art things and it's a specific color actually nickel azo yellow nickel azo yellow is
available through several brands and in all kinds of different formats like watercolor or acrylic
um there's daniel smith watercolor crayons holbein golden m graham and winsor newton have it in oils
so all over the place this is not particular to the exact format that i'm talking to you about
today which is golden and i do have golden fluid and nickel azo yellow i recently used this color
in a demo that we did and i really love it it's one of my favorite colors and it is one of the
colors featured in this piece behind me here but i wanted to show you guys a little bit about what's
so interesting about nickel azo yellow now granted it doesn't look sexy in the tube like or in this
bottle it looks kind of gross um it is a very very kind of like funny oakery color in mass tone
and what i mean by mass tone is when it's at full strength like right out of the tube or out of the
bottle and i'm actually just gonna pour this right on here and you're like ew so yeah it looks like
baby diaper and doesn't look pretty but give me a second so we have like a barely damp brush here
and we're on some cold press watercolor paper you know for the purposes so you know what
surface we're dealing with here so we have full strength here in mastone and you can see that it's
very very strong and very very potent there's a lot a lot of color here right
but so you get a very very earthy yellow um like i said it looks a lot like an ochre and stuff
like that but that's what our mass tone looks like okay so it's high impact very kind of like
organic looking watch what happens when we add a little bit of water
it becomes a rock star and let me show you why it is a very very intense yellow and it is sunny
and fun and high impact and goes a very very long way so from that little little teeny dab of color
you get this rich robust like crazy yellow and we're going to continue to draw it down
by wetting our brush and letting this kind of wash happen and it is just beautiful it's
a great tinting yellow so if you mix it with white you get a really sunshiny happy yellow
from this and it's just kind of like amazing so the undertone with this very very bright yellow
that we're seeing is very very different than this mass tone that we see up here at the top
um and that's typical you know with a lot of colors not generally as dynamic as this
this one's pretty like out there in terms of like color behavior and stuff like that but that's one
of the reasons i kind of love this color is because you get a whole library of really rich
yellow in just one little teeny dab and you can do all kinds of really really cool stuff with it
it's just gorgeous it's got so much power and so much punch i love a sim nickel azo and you know
kind of looks like gold so you you know i'm going to love that it is just amazing i just love this
color like i said it's available in all kinds of brands all kinds of formats check it out if
you've been a little scared because it doesn't look super sexy on the shelf i'll give you that
but it is kind of an amazing little rock star check out nickel azo yellow and all kinds of
different brands and formats available here at cheap joe's we know that you will enjoy
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