A J Ludlow Phthalocyanine Green (Yellow Shade) Professional Watercolour

Phthalo Green (YS) is just one of the bright and exquisite Professional Watercolours from A J Ludlow. Being based on a single pigment with excellent permanence and light fastness, ensures that this watercolour’s properties are exceptional. As with all our fine-art materials, Phthalo Green (YS) watercolour is lovingly handmade in the UK by a skilled artisan from the best ingredients and finest pigments.

Phthalocyanine Green (Yellow Shade) professional quality watercolour is supplied in a 15ml glass jar, because:

• The watercolour’s wet mass tone can be seen through the walls of the jar;
• The colour can be easily transferred from the jar to the palette with a palette knife.

But more importantly, there is no need for unnecessary additives or formulation changes to make processing in our colour manufacturing workshop easier, allowing the Phthalo Green (YS) watercolour made by A J Ludlow, to be at the highest pigment concentration and the pigment’s unique properties to be uncompromised. Anything less would be at odds with the brilliance and performance demanded of a professional quality watercolour range.

This Professional Watercolour is prepared using the synthetic mixed halogenated aromatic macrocyclic organo-metallic pigment, brominated copper phthalocyanine. The pigment has been selected for its purity, high tinctorial strength, exceptional transparency, light fastness and very attractive, yellow-shade green colour. It affords a transparent watercolour (as can be seen in the figure 1a below).

Figure 1: Assessment of (a) the opacity/transparency and (b) staining power of A J Ludlow Phthalo Green (YS) Professional Watercolour*.

The Phthalo Green (YS) watercolour does not lift out completely (as can be seen in figure 1b above) and so has a propensity to stain the watercolour paper.

This watercolour has a structured consistency, but is easily transferred from the jar to the watercolour palette using a clean spatula or palette knife. As with all the Professional Watercolours from A J Ludlow, once water is added, this watercolour has excellent flow and is a joy to paint with.

This watercolour has a softer yellow shade of green than the Phthalocyanine Green (Blue Shade) and so can be mixed with various yellows and earth colours to produce natural looking greens for foliage and landscape painting. In particular with Isoindolinone Yellow it can be mixed to make a lightfast green with a similar hue to natural Sap Green, which traditionally is made from buckthorn berries.

In the A J Ludlow Phthalocyanine Green (Yellow Shade) Professional Watercolour, the pigment is pure and the tinctorial strength is very strong and so is best used sparingly when initially mixing with other colours.

Pigment Details: Brominated Copper Phthalocyanine / Colour Index Pigment Green 36 ( C.I. PG36)

Footnote:

*Details of how each watercolour is tested are given in the May 2021 ARTicle “Testing and Assessing the Properties of Watercolours – Part 1 ” (see also Part 2 of the ARTicle, which was published in June 2021).