[alt-photo] Re: Another tricolor...

[Judy Seigel]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Marek Matusz wrote:

>
> Paul
>
> Cadmium is a very intense and opaque yellow. Did you use it as a first 
> layer? What was your registration method.
>
> For oil painting you can not substitute it with anything else. I wonder 
> if I am missing something by not using it.
>
> Marek

I speak here beyond my area of expertise, but re something I've heard so 
ioften and on such authority, I feel compelled to mention it...

If that IS real *cadmium,* it's pernicious & evil environmentally, 
so (presumably) even in small quantities shouldn't be added to .... 
free flowing water.

(This has in the past been replied to as OK, benign, etc. on the list, but 
I've continued to hear/read about the horror of cadmium, so mention it 
again...)

J.