Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor - Perylene Red, 5 ml, Tube
Extra Fine Watercolor
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Product details
- Size
- 5 ml
- Blick SKU
- 01767-3745
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.
Perylene Red
- Pigment code
- PR178
- Type
- organic, anthraquinone
- Chemical formula
- C48H26N6O4
- Properties
- Perylene Red is a moderately intense, semi-opaque, medium red pigment, appearing somewhere between a Cadmium Red and a Cadmium Deep Red hue. It has excellent brightness and tinting strength. Its partial transparency makes it useful as a glazing color.
- Permanence
- Perylene Red has excellent lightfastness and permanence, but its tints may darken after extended exposure to sunlight. It is not considered suitable for exterior use.
- Toxicity
- Perylene Red has no significant acute toxicity. Its long term hazards are currently unknown.
- History
- Perylenes have been used as vat dyes since 1912, but they were not manufactured and sold as pigments until 1957.
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