They call it mellow yellow. Quite rightly.
Donovan's 1966 hit is one of those songs that generated more rumours per square inch than almost anything else from the psychedelic era.
Was it about smoking banana skins?
It wasn't.
Was Paul McCartney on it?
He was — uncredited, adding claps in the studio, returning the favour after Donovan helped write "Yellow Submarine".
The arrangement was by a young John Paul Jones, two years before Led Zeppelin existed.
Donovan himself said it was about being cool, laid back, and "electrical bananas" — which was his cheerful way of describing a certain newly available consumer product.
It reached number 2 in America.
It still sounds like sunshine.
The skull is more subtle than all of that.
White body with a spattered covering, I used yellow and orange glow in the dark pigments in the top — the coronal suture, if you happen to be a brain surgeon — which contains the light and shows up the design of the skull's white surface really nicely.
The overall effect is a white light with a mellow yellow tinge at the top, which is exactly what I was after.
The glow in the dark effect is very subtle.
