Hansa Yellow Deep is a bright mango orange yellow.
Pigment Stats for PY65
Per ArtisCreation:
Chemical composition: Monoazo arylide
Lightfastness: Excellent (I), confirmed by me (see below)
Toxicity: Nontoxic
Fun facts: Used for traffic paints!
Observations of DV Hansa Yellow Deep
Da Vinci actually has two single-pigment PY65 paints; Hansa Yellow Deep and Arylide Yellow Deep. I tried them both in dot cards and couldn’t tell the difference. I’m testing Hansa Yellow Deep here.
Gradient: Gloriously smooth gradient from deep mango to pale yellow-orange
Transparency: Totally transparent
Glazing: Glazes to a deeper, bright orange
Mixes: I struggled with some of these color mixes largely due to my own incompetence, not the paint. I especially struggled with the Schmincke color mixes as is my habit. (I actually redid the Schmincke Phthalo Green mix over with DS Phthalo Green Blue Shade because I got so frustrated with it!) Anyway, these are equivalent to the mixes you’d get from New Gamboge and about what you’d expect – corals, warmed-up earth tones, and muted greens.
Lightfastness
There are some variations in the way I painted this, but no apparent fading from light exposure!
Comparison to Other Colors
Isoindolinone Yellow Deep, Cadmium Yellow Deep, Benzimida Orange
Holbein’s Isoindolinone Yellow Deep (PY110) is my former favorite yellow-orange, but in this comparison I can see that the DS Hansa Yellow Deep is a bit brighter! It’s also a little yellower, especially in midtone.
MaimeriBlu Cadmium Yellow Deep (PY35) looks almost identical to PY110 to me, so the same comparisons apply. Winsor Orange (PO62) is more orange and opaque with less range.
The pen is one of my favorite color Lamy Safari in the color Mango.
Comparison to Other Brands
Daniel Smith – Hansa Yellow Deep
This one is really bright! Ignore the grayishness in the bottom bar, I smeared the ink from the box.
Mission Gold – Permanent Yellow Deep
Similar hue, a bit less transparent.
Direct comparison between Mission Gold & Daniel Smith:
The colors are very similar! Both start in a sunny yellow-orange and grade through a warm yellow to a pale, sunny gold.
Winsor & Newton – Winsor Yellow Deep
Winsor & Newton (last in the trio above) is very similar to DS and Mission Gold, perhaps slightly lower valued (or maybe just harder to rewet). It’s a nice, bold color with a bit of smoothness – I find it goes from deep yellow to pale yellow with less of a stopover in a mid yellow than I see in the others.
Color Mixes
Transparent Orange (DPP)
Super-intense oranges!
Quin Coral (PR209)
Also extremely bold oranges!!!
Quin Red/Rose (PV19)
With the warmer forms of PV19 rose (DS Quin Red and DV Red Rose Deep), you can get very bold corals – close to a Quin Coral hue, although the oranges aren’t as bold as those with Quin Coral. The cooler DS Quin Rose gives you more muted corals and nearly burnt oranges.
Quin Magenta (PR122)
Weirdly, though PR122 is cooler than DS Quin Rose (PV19), these mixes look brighter to me!
Ultramarine Deep (PB29)
This is a near-complement. HYD mutes with Ultramarine to a deep navy blue.
Phthalo Blue Red Shade (PB15)
Medium-muted greens.
Phthalo Blue Green Shade (PB15:3)
Moderately muted greens that can get very dark.
Prussian Blue (PB27)
Hues similar to the Phthalo’s, easy to get deep and jewel toned.
Indigo
Muted and dark. These are not my favorite mixes.
Phthalo Green Blue Shade (PG7)
This is a great mix for a bold, bright, summery green that is not as neon as a Lemon Yellow/Phthalo Green mix. This is a very good Hooker’s Green mix, similar to WN’s commercial Hooker’s Green (which is made from PG7 + PY110).
What Others Say
I colloquially dubbed this color “Kraft Mac and Cheese Orange” as it has a rich masstone but it does soften out nicely in tints and glazes.
Denise Soden, Color Spotlight: Hansa Yellow Deep
[T]he hue is a little too orange to be preferred over a middle yellow, and although it is slightly less opaque than cadmium yellow deep, it is not as strong in mixtures. Isoindoline yellow (PY110) has a nearly identical hue and may be a superior pigment for lightfastness, transparency, and lyrical color shifts.
Bruce MacEvoy, handprint.com
My Review of Hansa Yellow Deep (PY65)
I like this color a lot on its own; it puts me in mind of one of my all-time favorite Prismacolor pencils, Spanish Orange, and of my bright cheerful Lamy Safari pen in the color Mango.
It’s fabulous for mixing the boldest oranges, and creates glowing gradients.
This is one of the classic options for the orange yellow palette slot, for which other options are PY110 or New Gamboge. PY65 is a little brighter than PY110 and a little oranger than New Gamboge, making it ideal for mixing the brightest oranges, as in my Autumn Palette.
In a very limited palette, I probably would skip this slot entirely, as an earth yellow can do most of what a bright orange-yellow can do, mixes neutrals more pleasantly, and is usually more practically useful in more situations (at least for a landscape artist). In a sunset, I find PY65 can be garish, and I usually prefer Naples Yellow Deep. However, when you want really bold pop oranges, PY65 is unbeatable.
Favorite version: It’s a close call as all the versions I tried were very similar. Daniel Smith appeared to me among the brightest/boldest which is what I want from this color. Both DV options (which are undifferentiatable) are very smooth in gradients, though lacking in value range.
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Daniel Smith – Hansa Yellow Deep (PY65), 5ml tube: Blick | Utrecht
Da Vinci – Hansa Yellow Deep (PY65), 8ml tube: Da Vinci Paints