Wallace Seymour Cadmium Vermilion Bespoke Oil Paint

Cadmium Vermilion PR 108

An artificial mineral pigment, produced by heating cadmium sulphide with the element selenium. Cadmium vermilion orange is a solid solution of mercury sulphide in cadmium sulphide.

Introduced for artists in the 1920s – a permanent replacement for vermilion. Opaque. Slow to dry 3-4 days as a thin application.

Very stable, lightfast