Pigment pair · PY43 + PBr24
Mixing Yellow Ochre and Naples Yellow
Nine steps from one to the other, worked out with a spectral model rather than by averaging screen colors. Half and half gives #D5A540. Click any step to open it in the mixer.
The full range, Yellow Ochre to Naples Yellow
Ratios are parts by volume, the way you would put them out on a palette.
These two are close enough on the color wheel that they never cancel. Every mixture between them keeps its saturation, so this is a pair for building color, not for knocking it back.
The same range with white added
Two parts titanium white to one part of the mixture above. White lifts the value but also takes the chroma down, which is why a tint is never simply a lighter version of the same color.
What you are working with
| Pigment | Index | Strength | Opacity | Lightfast | In |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow Ochre | PY43 | 4/10 | semi-opaque, granulating | excellent | Oil, Watercolor |
| Naples Yellow | PBr24 | 3/10 | opaque | excellent | Oil |
A muted earth yellow. Indispensable for skin, sand and autumn greens.
Comes with white already in it. A quick route to soft light tints without reaching for titanium.
Now do it with your own paints
This page assumes two tubes. The mixer works from everything on your palette at once, and from a color you pick out of your own photo.