Cadmium Red Light Alternative

In the united states use of cd bearing stabilizers has decreased since 1990.

Cadmium red light alternative.

I like that although its hue is very similar to cadmium red light which makes it feel familiar to me its chroma is actually a bit higher and continues to hold up well with the addition of white paint at least as well as the cadmium red i ve been using. It is stable as a pure pigment. These are strong tinting high chroma colors with excellent lightfastness. Alizarin crimson mixed with ultramarine blue will give a strong clear purple below left because both colours have a touch of red and blue in them and neither contains yellow to make it muddy.

Intense pigments in hues of red yellow and. Cadmium red contains between 15 to 30 and more selenium. The cadmium free pigment was developed after three years of research and development. The occurrences of bleaching or darkening in the beginnings of its use were due to impurities.

There s a new cadmium free paint alternative for artists. Cadmium red is cadmium sulfoselenide cd s se. Cadmium has been used as a weathering light and heat stabilizer primarily in pvc plastic formulations. The pyrrole family of pigments is currently represented on the golden palette by three colors pyrrole orange pyrrole red light and pyrrole red.

Identifying suitable alternatives for the cadmium yellows has been a somewhat more difficult task.