Back in the eighties hubby brought a whole load of cadmium colours back from the company where he was doing chemical analysis. I had about eight coffee jars full of cadmium ranging from pale yellow to red to deep maroon. But I didn’t know how to mix them, it was before Google and I had them on a shelf for a year. I also knew Cadmium is a heavy metal although these colours were pigments so hopefully they were safe.
Then a fellow art student asked about them. I agreed to give them to her. I know she used them in many paintings! I often wonder if she used them all, I haven’t seen her for forty years.
Mallaband-Brown 
O my God, i wish somebody gave jars of pigments to me i would wish to be burried with them. sorry bad joke.
it’s actually a beautiful gesture an art student would have created beautiful art with it i’m sure.
i have been looking for pigments to make pastels but couldn’t find them here.
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I think pastels are chalk mixed with pigment, maybe try white chalk and add watercolour, let it dry and use some sort of binder to hold it together….
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you can get dry pigments here and from Sennelier https://www.naturalpigments.com/
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Thank you! Will check soon 🙂
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