Cadmium Red Medium Hue Extra Fine Watercolor by DANIEL SMITH

Cadmium Red Medium Hue Extra Fine Watercolor by DANIEL SMITH

 
Our DANIEL SMITH Cadmium Red Medium Hue Extra Fine Watercolor (the best watercolor for Artists’) is a true stop sign red with all of best qualities of Cadmium Red Medium, but better!
 
We have developed our safe, vibrant  New Cadmium Hue Watercolors to replace our cadmiums with formulas that provide all the density and richness of classic cadmium colors.  Our hues are virtually identical in color to their namesakes, but cleaner in mixtures and stronger in tints, a little goes a long way.  Our new Cadmium Red Medium Hue, is just slightly different since Cadmium Red Medium is naturally a little brownish, and we did not want to replicate that muddiness.  Our Cadmium Hues working properties (staining power, semi-transparency and excellent light fastness) are also nearly identical to those of the low-soluble cadmium colors we previously offered.
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You will notice on the tube that the Cadmium Red Medium Hue is labeled as a mix of two pigments, but because of a process called “co-precipitation“, the two pigments are essentially melded together and the result acts as a single pigment.  In this case, it is not true that 1 + 1 = 2, but rather 1 +1 = 1. This is a reason why our Cad Red Med Hue is brighter than a mix of multiple pigments would usually be.
 
On our DANIEL SMITH Color Map, you can see how far out on the peripheral our Cadmium Red Medium Hue (#178) which means it is very bright, because of it’s higher chroma.
 
Our Cadmium Red Medium Hue has an excellent lightfast rating, is a semi-transparent, and low-staining, non-granulating watercolor.
 
  • ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
  • Transparency: Semi-transparent
  • Staining: Low-staining
  • Granulating: No
 
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