Take a deep breath as you immerse yourself in the dazzling potential of Brilliant Blue, a bright, multifaceted color made with three pigments: phthalocyanine blue, phthalocyanine green and titanium white. This confident, opaque shade offers up a heady, almost electric blue that can stimulate any setting and vibrate with energy: all without overpowering.

Brilliant Blue is part of Shimmering Lagoon, one of our 2025 color trends. Summoning up a cosmic natural wonderland, this is a place of luminosity, fantasy creatures, infinite horizons and enigmatic depths. Avatar: The Way of Water meets Bladerunner 2049 as the synthetic fuses with the organic, the dark unknown is lit up by bio luminescence. Imagine it and dive in.

HOW TO USE

Harness the power of Brilliant Blue in your next project. This color always adds a natural high, creating works that feel alive and positive. It has so many applications. Mix it with equal amounts of titanium white to achieve a highly opaque, vibrant pastel blue tint with real strength. Brilliant Blue, in tint and mass tone, captures the vibrancy of tropical oceans and Miami light. In landscapes, it can be used for a wide range of water and sky settings. Try pairing it with a darker spectrum of marine blues for rich tonal effects with real depth and movement.

Brilliant Blue also makes an electrifying highlight color. Use it sparingly to transform earthy browns, the blackest berries and other deeps. Like the impact of a computer screen glow in a dark room, Brilliant Blue can instantly add drama and dimensionality. Combine with other brights to build maximum impact, stimulate the senses and create a cosmic contradiction.

Play with opacity, layering and translucence. Brilliant Blue creates impactful glazes when mixed with Liquitex Glazing Medium: particularly useful for creating the fluid, organic effects of moving water and tides. Want to try to mix Brilliant Blue acrylic paint from your own palette? Take the three Liquitex single pigment colors of Titanium White, Phthalocyanine Blue Green Shade and Phthalocyanine Green, and get mixing.

IN THE ART WORLD

Brilliant Blue is made up using the green and blue phthalo synthetic pigments first discovered in the 1920s. Good value, lightfast, chemically stable and intense, this family of pigments quickly became popular with artists, as well industry for car paints and other commercial uses. Big fans included Dutch abstract painter Mondrian and Jackson Pollock, who used phthalo green in his signature drip paintings. Yves Klein became obsessed with the color: “Blue has no dimensions. It is beyond dimensions” and went on to create his own signature Klein Blue pigment in the 1960s. Phthalo colors were used by Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein to keep his paint layers thin, opaque and saturated in comic-book inspired works like Live Ammo (Ha! Ha! Ha!) in 1962.

SHIMMERING LAGOON

Dip yourself in the otherworldly aquatic universe of Brilliant Blue and the Shimmering Lagoon. The palette sparks new adventures, fusing marine darks with glowing underwater brights.

Inspired by the discovery of new technologies and incredible new marine species, it takes us down to the ocean's deepest levels to wonder at the magic of its natural ecosystem. These underwater realms let us dream up fantastical worlds where sci-fi, science, organic life and dreams combine.

Want to find how to incorporate Brilliant Blue acrylic paint into your Shimmering Lagoon palette? The trend brings together Brilliant Blue with deeper blues, shimmering greens and translucent bright red. Bring it to the surface by combining with Liquitex Phthalo Blue (Red Shade), Prussian Blue Hue, Light Blue Permanent, Brilliant Yellow Green and shots of Medium Magenta in a dance of opacity and transparency.