In the 1980’s My hubby worked for a few years in a cadmium colour factory, they processed the raw pigments to get colours from pale yellow, through orange to red and deep matoon red. He bought me jars and jars (empty coffee jars) of the colours home, but as they are made of a heavy metal I decided to give them to a friend who knew how to use them and grind her own oil paint.
I don’t know if he was allowed to bring them but I think he knew I would love the colours and I did. They were the purest colours I had ever seen. To quote Rudolphs song “you could almost say they glowed”. As Cadmium is similar to Lead though, I decided not to use them.
Mallaband-Brown 
I have a couple of jars of cadmium colors I’ll never use even though the label says the risk of anything bad happening is very low. I don’t know what I would do if they fit the kind of painting I usually do. They are beautiful colors. AND you know I’m not going to use an airbrush or eat the paint.
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I’m bad for sucking the end of my brush to get it to a point!
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Yikes! Yeah no cadmium for you!
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