DANIEL SMITHExtra Fine Watercolor Paint, 15ml Tube, Permanent Yellow Deep, 284600133, 0.5 Fl Oz (Pack of 1)

I have been looking for just that perfect single pigment transparent deep yellow for my watercolor palette, and after some research it came down to this shade PY110 (Permanent Yellow Deep or Isoindoline Yellow) or PY65 (Hansa Yellow Deep). In the end, I chose to try this shade because, frankly, Bruce MacEvoy's incredible Handprint website talked me into it (and because I have a student grade Indian Yellow of py65 to play with for now).According to reports this Isoindoline Yellow is a little staining, but extremely lightfast, transparent, and rich shade of orange-yellow. MacEvoy claims that it mixes very well blues for landscapes, and in my experience so far, that is accurate. I have tried it with both my cool and warm blues and, as you might expect, it produces a variety of muted, earthy greens (as you can see in the pic above, blended with, in order from top left to bottom: W&N Quinacridone Rose, D.S. French Ultramarine, and D.S. Indanthrone Blue across the bottom row) The orange shade it produces with Quin Rose was really lovely and bright.This really is a nice transparent pigment as you can see from my sharpie line swatch. The area on the right of the photo is still wet with its 2nd heavy coat of this pigment, making it look far less transparent, though it shows some of the drying shift well, so I am leaving the pic. The 2nd pic of that swatch shows it dried - the transparency is made more obvious again. Also I tried to lift the color in this pic a little, but it wasn't ideal (as it was the 2nd coat) but thats where the smudge at the bottom right of that swatch came from.Also, these swatches were made on cheap mixed media pulp paper, so the graininess is in large part due to that. I am really impressed at how smoothly this pigment dried, to be honest, since I consider this paper to be only useful for swatching and nothing else. It spreads fairly well in wet on wet, tho nothing spectacularly noteworthy to report there. Also, it rewetted beautifully in the palette, so I doubt I will have any problems in the future.All in all, I am very happy with this Daniel Smith paint and can't wait to use it when I have an appropriate subject. I imagine I will be using it often in landscapes and botanicals. It would make a phenomenal pigment for sunsets, autumnal themes and florals such as sunflower petals. Or if you are looking for that perfect schoolbus color, this pigment is pretty darn close. I can see why PY110 made it into Handprint's Top 40 pigment list.