The newly introduced Cadmium-Free colours in the Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour range offer parity performance to their genuine cadmium cousins. Specially formulated to match the properties of Cadmium, these paints offer opaque colour with strength and vibrancy and a lightfastness that will ensure your work stands the test of time.

Winsor & Newton have continuously developed their product range with the artist in mind. This addition of 8 new cadmium-free colours to their Professional Watercolour range marks another innovation in their history. These new colours have been carefully created by chemists to ensure as close a physical and chemical performance to genuine cadmium as possible. Now tested and approved by artists, these new paints definitely deliver on the colour vibrancy, strength, transparency and lightfastness that you would expect of a genuine cadmium paint. With the 8 cadmium-free colours you are given the ultimate choice over the perfect paint for you – so you don’t have to worry about choosing between your health or your art.

Cadmium-Free Lemon

Cadmium-Free Lemon is a bright lemon yellow with green undertones.
Colour Code: 898
Series: 4
Transparency: Opaque
Permanence: A (Permanent)

Cadmium-Free Yellow Pale

Cadmium Free Yellow Pale is a strong, creamy yellow and has a rich, bright mass tone.
Colour Code: 907
Series: 4
Transparency: Opaque
Permanence: A (Permanent)

Cadmium-Free Yellow

Cadmium-Free Yellow is a strong, deep yellow with a warm mass tone.
Colour Code: 890
Series: 4
Transparency: Opaque
Permanence: A (Permanent)

Cadmium-Free Yellow Deep

Cadmium-Free Yellow Deep is a deep, sunny yellow with a strong red mass tone and a warm, creamy undertone.
Colour Code: 891
Series: 4
Transparency: Opaque
Permanence: A (Permanent)

Cadmium-Free Orange

Cadmium-Free orange is a vivid and rich hue with deep red undertones.
Colour Code: 899
Series: 4
Transparency: Opaque
Permanence: A (Permanent)

Cadmium-Free Scarlet

Cadmium-Free Scarlet is a bright, yellow-shade red with a vibrant and glowing mass tone.
Colour Code: 903
Series: 4
Transparency: Opaque
Permanence: A (Permanent)

Cadmium-Free Red

Cadmium-Free Red is a blue-shade red with a deep mass tone and soft, creamy undertones.
Colour Code: 901
Series: 4
Transparency: Opaque
Permanence: A (Permanent)

Cadmium-Free Red Deep

Cadmium-Free Red Deep is a dark and velvety red with soft, blue undertones.
Colour Code: 895
Series: 4
Transparency: Opaque
Permanence: A (Permanent)

Each colour is now available in half pan, 5ml or 14ml tubes.

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