The yellows

I have way too many tubes of paint. If you paint, you probably do too. The oldest ones are left over from my university days. The next oldest ones made their way to me from my mother’s collection, after she stopped painting. Some have come from sponsors at various events, and of course there are many that I have purchased. Colours that I have wanted to try because I’ve seen them used successfully by other artists or colours that have simply called out to me from a shelf at the art supply store.

There are very few that I don’t like. In this bin, there’s a Jaune Brilliant that I bought for an online course. It’s the only one that was a real mistake, at least for me. This bin of yellows lives in a drawer with bins of the reds, the blues, the greens, the purples/blacks, and two bins of earth tones, separated into raw and burnt pigments. I may have a paint addiction, but at least I’m organized.