New Gamboge to Permanent Yellow Deep swatch assessment based on pigment numbers
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Refining my Watercolour Palette for 2026: Replacing my New Gamboge

Despite finalising my urban sketching watercolour palette in 2025, and vowing not to change it. I needed a replacement for New Gamboge, and did a pigment assessment of the other yellows I have on hand, to see if one of them would be a good replacement. Turns out Permanent Yellow Deep is a much better warm yellow to have in my palette, and here’s why.