Over recent years there has been a lot of discussion about the environmental safety of cadmium pigments. With this in mind, Winsor & Newton have developed cadmium-free pigments and introduced their exciting cadmium-free range of watercolours.
Cadmium pigments have been used by artists for many years; when I was an art student ‘the cadmiums’ were important pigments and were among the first colours that we had to buy. Cadmium pigments are brilliantly coloured, have good permanence and excellent lightfastness. The main pigments form a family of yellow, orange and red.
Cadmium safety