Rublev Colours Artist Oil Colours 50ml Lead White No. 1
Rublev Colours Artist Oil Colours 50ml Lead White No. 1
Lead White (also known as flake white or Cremnitz white) is an opaque white that is smooth and brushes long in the brushstroke direction. The consistency straight out of the tube is creamy and slightly ropey, yet retains its shape as you manipulate it while being soft yet sculptural.
This lead white is made with pale linseed oil and basic lead carbonate (made according to modern processes) without stabilizers (e.g., stearates, waxes, etc.) or fillers to alter the characteristics of the pigment. As a result, you get higher pigment volume concentration (PVC) than other brands of lead white (flake white)--as high as 50%. This means most brands of flake white do not weigh nearly as much as Rublev Colours 50 ml tube. Yet, Rublev Colours Lead White is not overly stiff and mixes well with all other oil colors.
Lead white is the most common white on the old masters' palette. Lead pigments have been made artificially since antiquity, although health concerns about lead poisoning have greatly diminished their role in painting today.
Rublev Colours Artists' Oils let you experience what the old masters well understood--the unique characteristics of pigments. The pigments used by old masters in their paintings were ground from natural minerals and earths, fermented in dyer vats and concocted in alchemist laboratories. Rublev Colours Artists' Oils give you the same pigments used by the old masters prepared with linseed oil as ready-made paints.
Rublev Colours uses natural pigments or historical reproductions of pigments used by the old masters. Rublev Colours Artists' Oils are formulated to maintain the unique characteristics of each pigment in oil. The character found in each tube of these oil colors is unique due to the pigment inside, giving the artist nearly limitless choices of texture, opacity, consistency, tone and hue.
Rublev Colours Artists' Oils do not contain additives, such as fillers, driers and stabilizers--simply pigment and oil. Refined linseed oil is used in the paint sometimes with a small amount of heat-bodied linseed oil. Stabilizers, such as stearates and waxes, are not added that diminish the individual effects of pigments in oil. Therefore, you will find different consistencies from color to color due to the individual pigment characteristics, and an occasional bit of free oil. Some colors brush out long, others short and buttery and still others are thixotropic.
Pigment Color Code: PW1
Opacity/Transparency: Opaque
Tinting Strength: Medium
Lightfastness: Excellent
Permanence: Permanent
Drying Rate: Approx. 2 Days
Binder: Linseed Oil
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including lead, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.
Note: Sale of this product is prohibited to any residents residing in the state of Minnesota under the Minnesota Statute 325E.3892.
- SKU Number
- RUB8022
- MSRP
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$46.80 / EA - Your Price
- $42.12 / EA
- Weight
- 0.40 LB
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