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Golden Heavy Body Artist Acrylics - Cadmium Red Medium, 32 oz jar

Heavy Body Artist Acrylic Paint

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Product details
Size
946 ml
Blick SKU
00620-3739
About this product range
  • Renowned professional quality
  • Pure pigments in high concentrations
  • 100% acrylic emulsion; no fillers, dyes, or opacifiers
  • Highly lightfast and permanent
  • Made in the USA

For artists seeking brilliant color, rich textures, and lasting performance, Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Colors are among the world’s very best. Golden's original acrylic line, the Heavy Body range includes the widest selection of single pigment colors in an acrylic format. Custom-milled to bring out the best qualities of each pigment, the resulting range includes glossy, transparent, matte, and opaque finishes—100% free from fillers or matting agents. The result? Complete color clarity and purity, straight from the tube.

Celebrated for their ability to hold brushstrokes and palette knife textures, these colors can also be extended with mediums for luminous, fluid glazes. No matter your technique, Golden Heavy Body Acrylics deliver reliable performance and striking results.

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.

Cadmium Red

Pigment code
PR108
Type
inorganic, cadmium
Chemical name
cadmium sulfide and cadmium selenide
Chemical formula
CdS x CdSe
Properties
Cadmium Red is a bright, warm red that ranges in shade from orange-red to maroon and is available in light, medium, and dark versions. It is strong and opaque, with good tinting strength. Cadmium Red dries slowly. It grays down when mixed with white, mixes well with blues to create a range of browns, and mixes well with Cadmium Yellow to create a strong orange. It also works well in neutral mixes. Cadmium pigments have been partially replaced by azo pigments, which are similar in lightfastness to the cadmium colors, cheaper, and non-toxic. Hues vary by brand. Cadmium Red is usually available in either a pure grade or a cadmium-barium mix. The cadmium-barium mix has the same permanence as pure Cadmium Red, but it has a lower tinting strength.
Permanence
Cadmium Red is lightfast and permanent in most forms, but like many cadmium pigments, it will fade in fresco or mural painting. Its improved lightfastness has helped it to replace Vermilion on the artist’s palette.
Toxicity
Cadmium Red is a known human carcinogen. It is extremely toxic if inhaled and slightly toxic if ingested.
History
Cadmiums get their names from the Latin word cadmia meaning zinc ore calamine, and the Greek word kadmeia, meaning Cadmean earth, first found near Thebes, the city founded by the Phoenician prince Cadmus. Metallic cadmium was discovered in 1817 by Friedrich Strohmeyer, but Cadmium Red was not introduced until 1907 in Germany.
Description
Cadmium Scarlet, Selenium Red.

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