Titanium Yellows & Orange

Our Nickel Lemon, Dutch Yellow, and Naples Orange demonstrate how useful modern Titanate colors can be on your palette.

The Titanium White each contains imparts opacity and color strength and is why our Nickel Lemon and Dutch Yellow are commonly known as Titanium Yellows and our Naples Orange is also called a Titanium Orange.

Titanium Yellows and Titanium Orange pigments were introduced to replace traditional Cadmiums for colorful coatings on consumer products. Now, as paint, our Nickel Lemon or Dutch Yellow will lighten the value of Cadmium Yellows without color loss to create colorful variations. Use our Naples Orange to lighten deeper Cadmiums, from Cadmium Orange to Cadmium Reds, extending their richness with nuanced changes in value and warmth.

*The Open Window* by **Pierre Bonnard**
The Phillips Collection

All three, Nickel Lemon, Dutch Yellow, and Naples Orange are magical in transforming deep or very intense transparent colors into rich mixtures. Here’s an image using our Nickel Lemon:

Nickel Lemon

Our cool-mixing Nickel Lemon is both bright and colorful while also very light in value. As a fully opaque Titanium Yellow pigment, Nickel Lemon can perfectly combine with our very warm and intense Indian Yellow to create a full range of primary yellows. This duo of modern colors, Nickel Lemon and Indian Yellow, can easily replace a traditional Cadmium Yellow on your palette.

Enjoy our Nickel Lemon mixing video below demonstrating this very natural but powerful yellow:

Dutch Yellow

Compounded to be more neutral and less opaque than the Nickel Lemon, our Dutch Yellow is a richly toned Titanium Yellow pigment. It will softly lighten and cool color in a mixture as it adds subtle dimension and a mellow, gentle light. A great addition to a landscape palette for mixing natural greens out of overly assertive blues or greens such as the Phthalo’s!

*My Wife and Daughters in the Garden*, by **Joaquin Sorolla**

Naples Orange

One of my favorite colors, our Naples Orange is a unique Titanium Orange pigment that is both earthy and bright. It’s ideal for mixing with Cadmium Reds and Oranges to both lighten and add warmth.

*Autumn, Fruit Picking*, by **Pierre Bonnard**

I love using this pale opaque orange to warm up cooler violets that are also deep. The resulting mixtures are both warm and cool, almost burnt lavenders. Here’s a few examples using our Ruby Violet with the Naples Orange:

Shown at bottom left is our **Naples Orange** which is then mixed with our **Ruby Violet** in the center. At top right is just the more transparent Ruby Violet unmixed.

*Self-Portrait* by Berthe Morisot
The Musée Marmottan Monet
A pupil of Corot, muse of Manet, Berthe Morisot emerges as the first Impressionist woman painter, an equal alongside Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Pissaro.

In this image, I’ve used **Naples Orange** to warm **Ruby Violet**, at center, and also to warm Ruby Violet that was first tinted with Titanium White, at far right. At left are more soft tints created using the white into variations of Naples Orange + Ruby Violet.

Our video featuring Naples Orange Mixtures shows how versatile Naples Orange is with a wide mixing capacity to enhance both warm and cool colors, even just white! Enjoy: