Winsor & Newton Galeria Acrylic Colour Permanent Green Deep 60 ML

This color contains the following pigments:

PG7-Phthalo Green

PY3-Hansa Yellow 10G

PG7-Phthalo Green

PY3-Hansa Yellow 10G

Organic

Organic, Monoazo

Polychlorinated Copper(II) Phthalocyanine

It comes from a Phthalocyanine Blue pigment where most of the hydrogen atoms have been replaced with chlorine, forming highly stable molecules. It has similar pigment properties and permanence to Phthalo Blue. It is slow drying and an excellent base color for mixing a range of bright greens. Phthalo Green is considered a very good alternative to Viridian because it is intense and mixes well and can be used to emphasize mineral colors in various tints. However, its tinting strength is very high, so it can overpower other colors. This pigment most closely resembles the discontinued and toxic Verdigris.

This Hansa yellow is a transparent yellow. It has great brightness and tinting strength and its drying time ranges from average to slow. Hansa Yellow makes more intense tints and cleaner secondaries than Cadmium Yellows, especially when mixed with other organic or modern colors like Phthalo Blue and Green. Because they are more transparent, they have great value as glazing colors.

Phthalo Greens are completely lightfast and resistant to alkali, acids, solvents, heat, and ultraviolet radiation. They are currently used in inks, coatings, and many plastics due to their stability and are considered a standard pigment in printing ink and the packaging industry.

This Hansa Yellow has fair to good permanence, particularly in the lighter shades.

Phthalo Green has no significant hazards, but it contained PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) until 1982.

Hansa Yellow has no significant acute hazards, though its chronic hazards have not been well studied.

This bright blue-green was developed in 1935 and has been in use since 1938.

Hansa Yellows were first made in Germany just before WW1 from a series of synthetic dyestuffs called Pigment Yellow. They were intended to be a synthetic replacement for Cadmium Yellow.