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Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor - Cadmium Red Scarlet Hue, 15 ml Tube

Extra Fine Watercolor

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Product details
Size
15 ml
Blick SKU
01767-3560
About this product range
  • Professional-quality
  • Widest color range available on the market
  • Maximum pigment loads
  • Excellent lightfastness
  • Natural granulation and distinctive pigment properties
  • Handmade in the USA

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors offer exceptional vibrancy, versatility, and performance trusted by professional artists worldwide. Crafted with pure, finely ground pigments and a gum arabic binder, each color delivers rich, luminous washes, remarkable blending, and stunning transparency or granulation—depending on the pigment’s natural properties.

Whether you're working with historical earth tones, intense quinacridones, or mineral-based PrimaTek colors, each tube provides a unique painting experience. These watercolors are rigorously tested to ensure consistent pigment load, exceptional lightfastness, and true-to-tube quality every time.

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.

Diarylide Yellow 83

Pigment code
PY83
Type
organic, disazo
Chemical formula
C36H32Cl4N6O8
Properties
Diarylide Yellow is a semi-opaque, moderately staining, intense deep reddish yellow pigment with good tinting strength.
Permanence
Diarylide Yellow 83 has very good lightfastness and permanence. However, it can fade in tints, so some artists do not consider it suitable as an artists' color. Many other diarylide yellow pigments are reported to have fair to poor lightfastness, and some are completely fugitive. Diarylide Yellow 83 is reputed to be one of the most permanent of the entire group.
Toxicity
Diarylide Yellow has no significant acute hazards, but chronic hazards have not been well studied.
History
Diarylide Yellow comes from a family of azo pigments called Diarylide. These yellow hued pigments were developed around 1940 and are very important in printing inks.
Description
Benzidine Yellow, Diazo 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.

Nickel Titanium Yellow

Pigment code
PY53
Type
inorganic
Chemical name
mixed metal oxide
Chemical formula
(Ti,Ni,Sb)O2
Properties
Nickel Titanium Yellow is one of the cleanest and brightest of the inorganic pigments. It has a low tinting strength and average to slow drying time.
Permanence
Nickel Titanium Yellow has excellent lightfastness and outstanding stability with regard to chemicals, weather, and heat. It is durable in exterior conditions.
Toxicity
Nickel Titanium Yellow is not considered toxic.
History
Nickel Titanium Yellow was developed in the 1960s.
Description
Nickel Titanate Yellow, Nickel Yellow.

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