hello and welcome to chief joe's art stuff my name is julie and i'm here to impart some
knowledge to you today via a two-minute art tip in today's tip we're going to be talking a little bit
about cadmium free colors and what's up with that i've heard some talk and back and forth
about people wondering why there is this influx of cadmium free colors when people
been using cadmium colors for years and years and what's the big deal well it's a little bit
more detailed or uh than you might think um cadmium actually is a soft bluish metal
looks like a that um it's found in zinc ores you know in nature and stuff like that so you
know it can occur in soil and stuff like that so it's not like something that you wouldn't
encounter in your your life but it's soft it's malleable and it's great as a pigment
except that in high dosages it can actually cause damage to your body which is why that you see the
astm labels for toxicity on cadmium colors in high concentrations you can experience liver damage and
kidney damage and you know all kinds of things once you're exposed to cadmium and you have it
in your body your body's not used to that high dosage and it doesn't know what to do with it
so it can kind of ping around inside your system for like up to 30 years after the initial exposure
it's so great and you know really um i've often said that i felt like the
um the hazard labeling on cadmium and and cobalt both need to be a little bit more stringent to
kind of let you guys know what it is that you're handling and what the consequences are to yourself
from using this but now we have some really interesting options because you don't have to
like one off and do like a completely different color we now have completely viable cadmium
substitutes available on the market i want to show you like how completely amazing they are but i'm
gonna mix some color for you here and do a couple little draw downs so that you can see exactly what
i'm talking about so here we have cad red medium by liquitex this is a traditional cadmium color
we're gonna put a little bit here on our palette this is a glass palette that we carry here sorry
can't think of the name on top of my head but it's really really great then we have a cad-free
red medium this is also by liquitex and this is a cat equivalent so you see that there is just
the tiniest tiniest little color difference here and so we're going to grab a little
grab a little dab we'll do a draw down here so you can see how potent that is and then
we're going to do the cad free equivalent right next to it so that you can see that
they are pretty darn close to identical in a side-by-side but that's just
one little thing you know that's not necessarily representative of how you'd use it at all so
we're gonna play in the paint a little bit my friends i'm gonna put this out of the
way with cadmium you want to make sure that you don't have it on your skin because there can be
conduction of those pigments through your skin and into your system so you want to
be really really careful i don't mean that you need to go screaming on your way to the sink
or anything like that but you need to be aware of your exposure don't touch your um your face
your mouth don't put your fingers in your mouth don't put your paint brush in your mouth don't let
your paint rust in your mouth ever as a good is a good rule just generally like when i train some
of our customer service people if you didn't know indian yellow paint is actually made from cow pee
like pee pee from the solids and urea
there's another really excellent reason not to put your brush in your mouth
ever so what we have here is we have a dab of hansa yellow light and then
we've also got some titanium white and what we're going to do is we're going to
grab a little touch of each of these and we're going to grab our traditional cad red and a
little bit more here traditional cad red enhance yellow light so we're going to mix those together
we need more
i need some more meat with these taters let's go
all right so we're going to mix this together so that you can see
what kind of color that we get from the traditional cad
red medium handy yellow light combination you get a really rich vibrant orange
potent beautiful love it gorgeous can't say enough that gets you that sample
now we're going to grab some of the
cad free red and a little bit of this fancy yellow
and we have too much so it's not nearly the same proportion at all that's going to be tough
all right so let's mix it together and see what we got um
leave it to be together recipe all wrong
but you can see in terms of consistency and potent see that they are both highly concentrated there's
not a lot of difference here we'll grab a little bit more to get it tonally a little bit closer
there we go but you can see that they are almost spot on exactly exactly the same
so that gives you a little window into what that looks i'm like wash this up
making some messes here folks playing in the paint all right got it all over me that's okay
all right next step
we're going to play with some white first we're going to take the traditional cad red
grab some of that and we're going to put it here
a little bit of titanium white right there
and we're going to mix them together so you can see how that looks as a mixture
now granted titanium is kind of a cool and cad it's kind of a really really warm one so
you're gonna get this warm pink because it's the cadmium's ruling today it's
way stronger than the titanium is if you wanted to cut it a little bit more you get
a little bit more of a idea what you're looking at we can do that get more of a
very warm rose you can see that here that gives you an idea now what we're going to do
is we're going to take our cad-free red medium don't have enough there
do that and a little bit of titanium mix that together and so you can see how similar that these
really are in terms of intensity how they react with other colors
i got too much white let's grab some more mix it in there
watching me mix paint you never knew your life could be this exciting but uh as you can see here
still got a little bit uh a little bit too much white let's balance this out a little bit more
so you can see how similar these colors are in terms of how they mix up and stuff like that
so the nice part about cad free colors is that you don't have the kind of toxicity risk
but you get essentially the exact same effect and they are completely viable completely wonderful
high impact colors without the kind of exposure um to your health that you run into with cadmiums
so check out some of the cad free colors that we have in all kinds of lineups
liquitex is just one of them but you'll see them occurring in many lines
available now at cheap joe's we're sure that you'll enjoy
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