It is stable as a pure pigment.
Cadmium red light alternative.
The occurrences of bleaching or darkening in the beginnings of its use were due to impurities.
The cadmium free pigment was developed after three years of research and development.
The variations are solid solutions of selenium sulfide in cadmium sulfide.
Cadmium red contains between 15 to 30 and more selenium.
In the united states use of cd bearing stabilizers has decreased since 1990.
There s a new cadmium free paint alternative for artists.
Cadmium red is cadmium sulfoselenide cd s se.
Intense pigments in hues of red yellow and.
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.
The pyrrole family of pigments is currently represented on the golden palette by three colors pyrrole orange pyrrole red light and pyrrole red.
However swap the alizarin to a cadmium red which has a yellow tinge to it and your purple won t be as clean and bright below right.
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.
Identifying suitable alternatives for the cadmium yellows has been a somewhat more difficult task.