Daniel Smith Perylene Red is a medium-staining and semi-transparent watercolor. It creates vivid, dark washes with a clean, brilliant red-orange. This sedimentary pigment offers an additional health plus, as it is made from a metal-free red. Clean, modern pigments such as this will put accidental mud-making in the past.
• Pigment: PR 178 | Series: 3
• ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Medium
• Packed with rich pure pigment
• No fillers or waxes
Swatch info: Starting with 10 parts water to 1 part paint (by weight) in the palette, the chemist painted the top half of the swatch uniformly with a round brush to show the paint’s color and characteristics. For the bottom half, a 0.75-inch flat brush was dipped into the paint well just once, then the color was applied in stripes until the brush was dry, which shows the color’s tone and behavior through a wash.
