Brilliant Yellow - No. 259

Brilliant Yellow is the yellow you reach for when your painting needs a mood lift and a little bit of audacity.

It is pure sunshine in pigment form. The kind of yellow that makes everything around it look more awake, more alive, and slightly more optimistic, even if your personal vibe is currently “I need a nap and a snack.” It is bold, luminous, and unapologetically happy.

This is the color of sticky notes, summer popsicles, bright bike helmets, and that one friend who walks into a room and somehow turns the volume up on life. Use it for glowing highlights, cheerful florals, warm light, lemons, golden reflections, and that fresh brightness that makes a painting feel like it has air in it.

Brilliant Yellow also mixes beautifully. It makes greens look more juicy, oranges more fiery, and it can push earthy colors into something warmer and more alive without turning them into mud. And when you dilute it, it still stays present, like it refuses to disappear quietly.

Basically. If your painting needs vitamin D, this is it.

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