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Blick Artists' Soft Pastel - Cadmium Red Hue 4
Artists' Soft Pastel
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$3.56
Blick Art Materials · recorded 2026-10-21T05:36:38.566295000Z
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Product details
- Blick SKU
- 21948-3544
About this product range
Blick Artists' Soft Pastels are available in a variety of rich, vibrant colors and soft hues, ideal for all types of pastel painting and color sketching.
Created by combining the finest pigments with a minimal amount of binder, Artists' Soft Pastels have a velvety texture that offers easy laydown and consistent coverage. They're great for blending, layering and softening edges — all with minimal crumbling. They're also extremely lightfast.
Available by the individual stick, sets of full length sticks, or half stick sets that allow artists access to twice the color and twice the creative possibilities of the full stick sets. Individual sticks measure 2-1/2" L x 1/2" Dia (64 mm x 13 mm). Half sticks measure 1-1/4" L x 1/2" Dia (32 mm x 13 mm).
For professional quality at an affordable price, artists choose Blick Artists' Soft Pastels.
Please refer to the Item Specs tab of this page for lightfast ratings.
Pigment information
General reference notes about pigments can describe other media (such as oil). They do not verify this product’s exact formulation or behavior.
Hansa Yellow
- Pigment code
- PY74
- Type
- monoazo
- Chemical formula
- C18H18N4O6
- Properties
- Pigment PY74 is one of the most commercially important pigments of the Hansa Yellow group, considered superior to many others in its class based on both tinting strength and lightfastness. Several PY74 grades with different particle sizes are available. Grades with finer particle size are more brilliant and transparent. Pigment PY74 ranges from reddish yellow to greenish yellow, with temperature shifts from cool to warm hues. It has high tinting strength and average to slow drying time.
- Permanence
- This Hansa Yellow has better lightfastness that other yellow monoazo pigments, particularly in the darker shades.
- Toxicity
- Hansa Yellow has no significant acute hazards, though its chronic hazards have not been well studied.
- History
- Hansa Yellows were first made in Germany just before WW1 from a series of synthetic dyestuffs called Pigment Yellow. They were intended to be a synthetic replacement for Cadmium Yellow.
- Description
- Arylide, Arylide Yellow, Azo, Brilliant Yellow, Monoazo, Monolite Yellow, Permanent Yellow.
Pyrrole Red
- Pigment code
- PR254
- Type
- organic, aminoketone
- Chemical name
- Bis-(p-chrolopheny)-1. 4-diketopyrrolo(3. 4-c)pyrrole
- Properties
- Pyrrole Red is opaque and has strong covering power. According to manufacturer Ciba, which uses the trade name Irgazin Red, it is a “clean, highly saturated mid shade red with high temperature resistance, excellent color strength, outstanding chemical, solvent and bleed resistance, and good weatherfastness.”
- Permanence
- Pyrrole Red is considered to have excellent lightfastness among organic pigments in its class. Tests in industrial applications have given it scores of 7-8 on the Blue Wool Scale.
- Toxicity
- According to the Australian government's Ministry on Health and Aging, "The notified chemical exhibited low oral and dermal toxicity in rats, did not exhibit toxic effects when administered orally to rats for 28 days, was not a skin irritant in rabbi
- History
- Pyrrole Red, used as an automotive paint and as a colorant in plastics, was developed as one of a range of pigments to replace lead based pigments. In art materials, it is often used as a synthetic and lightfast replacement for carmine, a laked pigment that was originally produced from the body of the cochineal insect. It is also used to replace the older naphthol reds, organic red pigments that are sometimes only marginally lightfast and weatherfast.
- Description
- Magnacryl Red, Versal Red, Microlith Red, Unisphere Red, Cromophtol Red, Irgazin Red.
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