209. Naples yellow

Naples Yellow is a soft beige shade with an ochre undertone. The colour has a delicate, muted character and a gentle luminosity, making it particularly well suited to depicting natural light, flesh tones, and subtle painterly transitions.

The paint is opaque, with moderate tinting strength, allowing for delicate control of colour mixtures without becoming overly dominant. It spreads evenly across the surface, while its rich consistency makes it equally suitable for creating smooth painterly transitions, retaining expressive brushstrokes, or working in impasto. Ideal for mixing with reds and ochre tones to create complex warm flesh tones, with blues for muted grey-greens, and with violets for soft neutral mixtures.