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Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor - Cadmium Red Medium Hue, 5 ml Tube
Extra Fine Watercolor
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$9.30
Blick Art Materials · recorded 2026-10-21T08:02:30.662890000Z
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Product details
- Size
- 5 ml
- Blick SKU
- 01767-3325
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.
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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