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Today hearing "yellow" most painters will see Cadmium Yellow – brilliant and opaque. Artists' grade Cadmium Yellow oil colors are made from chemically pure cadmium- sulfide pigments. Cadmium is a silvery metal that occurs in nature, but cadmium pigments are manufactured. Oil colors were first made from cadmium yellow pigments in 1819. Cadmium Yellow replaced toxic chrome (lead) yellows. Although more expensive than Chrome Yellow, Cadmium Yellow was used by landscape painters, including Claude Monet, because of its higher chroma and its greater purity of color. Gamblin Cadmium Yellow colors contain less than 3 parts per million of bio-available cadmium metal. No federal health labeling required. Gamblin Artists' Oil Color, Cadmium Yellow Medium is a pure medium yellow with great opacity and naturally muted tint. This chemically pure cadmium color replaced toxic chrome yellow for the Impressionists. Most useful for natural light painting. Pigment: Concentrated cadmium sulfide (PY 37), Vehicle: Alkali refined linseed oil, Lightfastness I, Series 4, Opaque
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