>>5863841>cads is their cost and inflexibility in mixingYea, they're a bit costly, but a little goes a long way.
I've had similar issues with red & orange (the orange I have is actually already of mix of a red&yellow cad; I only use it when I need a bright orange);when it comes to mixing: their strength+opacity makes them too strong with other pigments, and they tend to dull things.
I'd say, if you need to paint bright things, perhaps have another bright red (like a quinacridone "rose") as a base, and use the cad to warm it up when needed, without affecting the chroma too much. If you need to paint dull things, try starting with a iron oxide, or a burnt umber, and again, add a little bit of cadmium to alter the chroma. Using transparent pigments are likely to keep the mixes rather fresh.
Basically, don't start your mixes with a base of cadmium, and just use it to bring some punch in temperature/chroma, unless you're painting like a bright warm red rose.
For yellows, if you're doing greens, then like cad yellow citron + cerulean teal gives you a really punchy green, that you can use as a base for a bunch of greens, altering it with ochre, ultramarine, etc. The warm cad yellow is useful for things that needs a "golden" punch.
Oranges are rare & almost always dull; I actually intend to paint an orange (the fruit) soon, likely I'll use some cad as a base or something, I'm not yet sure.
>increase the tinting strength which is bad for lightfastnessI wonder how difficult it would be to synthesize/manufacture some of those pigments at home, and how difficult it would be to control the size. Unfortunately, chemistry in an area that I know very little about...
>>5863961You're scaring me dude. Hopefully, I always first clean the brushes in a jar of turp, so I expect the residue to be small, but still.
