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Cadmium Yellow Light is a bright, cool, chemically pure Cadmium colour—one step warmer than our Cadmium Lemon. It has excellent opacity and is slow-drying in oil form.
Item #: 6170
Description: Gamblin 1980 Oils - Cadmium Yellow Light, 150 ml (5.07oz)
Gamblin’s approach is different. 1980 colours contain pure
pigments, the finest refined linseed oil, and marble dust (calcium carbonate).
Since oil painting began, these three ingredients have made more affordable colours. Painters experience true colours without homogenized texture
or muddy colour mixtures. Gamblin's approach to using traditional raw materials and processes ensures that artists experience the luscious working properties they expect from their oil colours. Cadmium Yellow is brilliant,
dense, and opaque. It has good tinting strength and high hiding power. In oil form, it is slow-drying. Cadmium Yellow is brilliant,
dense, and opaque, with good tinting strength and high hiding power. It is the
artist’s principal bright yellow and is available in light, medium, and dark
shades. The deeper shades appear deep orange and have the greatest tinting
strength. It is slow-drying in oil and
is used in oil and watercolour. It cannot be mixed with copper-based pigments. A clean Cadmium Orange is
created when Cadmium Yellow is mixed with Cadmium Red. Hues vary by brand. Cadmium pigments have been
partially replaced by azo pigments, similar in lightfastness to the cadmium
colours, cheaper, and non-toxic. Cadmium Yellow is usually available in a pure
grade or a cadmium-barium mix. This mix has the same permanence with a lower
tinting strength. Cadmium Yellow is lightfast
and permanent in most forms, but like most cadmium colours, it will fade in
fresco or mural painting. The deeper shades are the most permanent. The pale
varieties have been known to fade with exposure to sunlight in conditions where
moisture can penetrate the binder. Cadmium Yellow is a known
human carcinogen. It can be hazardous if chronically inhaled or ingested. 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. Oil colours were first made from Cadmium Yellow pigments in 1819,
replacing toxic Chrome (lead) Yellows. However, their production was delayed
until 1840 due to the scarcity of cadmium metals. Landscape painters, such as
Claude Monet, preferred Cadmium Yellow to the less expensive Chrome Yellow
because of its higher chroma and greater purity of colour. This Hansa yellow is
transparent. It has excellent brightness and tinting strength, and its drying
time ranges from average to slow. Hansa Yellow makes more intense tints and
cleaner secondary colours than Cadmium Yellows, especially when mixed with
other organic or modern colours like Phthalo Blue and Green. Because it is more
transparent, it has excellent value as a glazing colour. This Hansa Yellow has fair
to good permanence, particularly in the lighter shades. Hansa Yellow has no
significant acute hazards, though its chronic hazards have not been well
studied. 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.Gamblin 1980 Oils - Cadmium
Yellow Light (PY35; PY3)
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PIGMENT COMPOSITION AND PERMANENCE
PROPERTIES
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TOXICITY
HISTORY
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120ml
Brand
Gamblin
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