See the future with new eyes. Step into the world of Green Gold, a deep mustardy yellow, with a golden green tone. The color is part of our 2025 color trend palette, Imaginary Garden, alongside Light Pink, Naphthol Crimson, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber and Brilliant Yellow Green. Here, earth tones meet synthetic biotech brights - giving a fantastical natural aesthetic.

Made with a single pigment, irgazin yellow (also known as azomethine copper complex, or PY129), Green Gold is a transparent color, great for mixing, for glazing and for landscapes. On the canvas, Gold Green has a certain luminosity and glow from being totally transparent and having a high pigment strength. It effectively gives bold, bright and intense greens that don’t feel fake or neony, but authentic and natural.

HOW TO USE

Green Gold is hugely versatile: perfect for landscapes, botanicals and portraiture. It shifts in tints from a muted yellow green with tinges of pear and avocado, to a light yellow. Use it solo for luminous green lichen on winter tree bark, or to capture the dynamic energy of early Spring buds. Or mix with other colors. Try it with Quinacridone Magenta for tans and ochres and flesh tones, with Alizarin Crimson for Fall leaves. Use it to mute brights when creating autumnal scenes, mix with phthalocyanine greens and turquoise for luscious foliage. Or play around with the blues on your palette to create textured greens which range from moody sap tones to hunting greens.

Dive into the world of glazes. Green Gold transparency gives a super versatile, surprisingly deep, rich brown-green when glazing. It’s also useful to mute or warm other colors and works very well with all greens - brightening and amplifying yellow aspects.

IN THE ART WORLD

Green Gold is based on the natural green gold metal alloy that occurs in nature. This combo of gold and silver has a very subtle green tint been used decoratively throughout history. In ancient times, gold was associated with glory and the sun. In the Old Kingdom of Egypt in 3BC, green gold was used as a coating for the pyramidions on ancient obelisks and pyramids. It was made into ancient drinking vessels and Nobel Prize medals were also cast in green gold for many years. Green gold is still used by fine jewelers and is often seen as an accent color against other metals, particularly for foliage and nature designs.

Used in mosaics since early Christian times, gold is a symbol of otherworldly light and divine spirituality. Its first traces can be found in paint in Byzantine art where it was used to define sacred objects and show devotion. Frescos, paintings and mosaics feature backgrounds of gilded and glowing gold to represent enlightenment. This practice mostly disappeared from Western art at the end of the first Renaissance, while remaining one of the elements of religious painting in Eastern Europe.

Viennese artist Gustav Klimtis possibly the most celebrated proponent of gold in recent times. The son of an engraver and goldsmith, Klimt’s golden period was inspired by the mosaics of Venice and Ravenna, where he fell in love with its dazzling effects and facetted depths. It all starts with Pallas Athene(1898) and Judith and the Head of Holofernes(1901), although the works most popularly associated with this period are the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) and The Kiss(1907-1908). The ornate, decorative style is influenced by the Art Nouveau movement and his use of gold leaf in his paintings shines out both in the background, on clothing and accessories to give a distinctive, opulent look.

Liquitex Green Gold is available in Heavy Body and Soft Body Acrylic.

IMAGINARY GARDEN

Enter a play of light and shade, with Green Gold at its core. Think lush, saturated greens, glistening with golden reflections, fluidly punctuated with earthy browns and reds, popping with glowing botanical corals. Imaginary Garden fuses synthetic and natural tones to create a universe that feels both grounded and otherworldly.

This palette taps into the bio industrial revolution where ecology and biology inform technical and structural systems. Natural materials are used in new ways and organic life inspires new design ideas. Here biodegradable bottles are made of seaweed, and architecture is based on butterfly cocoons. Imaginary Garden celebrates the richness of nature’s diversity and the value of designing with multiple species in mind.

Want to find how to mix Green Gold acrylic paint in the Imaginary Garden palette? Bring it alive by combining with Liquitex Light Pink, Naphthol Crimson, Bright Yellow Green and the earthy tones of Burnt Sienna and Raw Umber. Watch the video below: