Cadmium Red Scarlet Hue Watercolor by DANIEL SMITH

Cadmium Red Scarlet Hue Watercolor by DANIEL SMITH

 

We’ve done it! Safe, Vibrant Cadmium Hue Watercolors!
 
Our DANIEL SMITH Cadmium Red Scarlet Hue Extra Fine Watercolor (the best watercolor for Artists’) is a warm red with a bit of orange that has all of the best qualities of Cadmium Red Scarlet, but better!
 
We have developed our New Cadmium Hue Watercolors to replace our cadmiums with safer 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 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 our Cadmium Red Scarlet Hue is labeled as a mix of three pigments, but because of a process called “co-precipitation“, the three pigments are essentially melded together and the result acts as a single pigment.  In this case, it is not true that 1 + 1 +1 = 3, but rather 1 +1 + 1 = 1. This is one reason why our Cad Red Scarlet 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 Scarlet Hue is (#179) which means it is very bright, because of it’s higher chroma.
 
Our Cadmium Red scarlet 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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