Bismuth vanadate (PY184) is a very thick, bright yellow paint that resembles gouache in its consistency. You can see it at full strength inside the blue tear-shapes, and as a background to the green sprouts. I also mixed it with pyrol red (PR254) to produce the caramel outlines. While it is a very intense colour, bismuth vanadate is hard to work with because it makes a mess on the palette, and it does not mix very well with other paints, although it makes a neat chartreuse. I used to bring it on location and found that it could be used to paint over the top of paint layers, but ended up with a metallic sheen to it. Its great for these kinds of abstract paintings though.
Vanadium Tears Sprouting, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper October 2023 (No. 3653a)
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